Oxford University Press

Writers, Readers, and Reputations explores the literary world in which the modern best-seller first emerged. Writers were promoted as celebrities, advertising both products and themselves. Philip Waller's detailed and entertaining study is a collective biography of literary figures, some forgotten, some enduring, over half a century.

Writing a War of Words is the first investigation of a valuable archive of war-time notebooks documenting changes to the English language on the Home Front. Using unconventional sources, it explores the effect of war on the language of ordinary people, and reflects on the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.

Explores a broad canvas of canonical and non-canonical writing during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to trace a connection between shifting attitudes to animals and the emergence of radical political claims based on universal rights.

This book examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, the most immediately influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best friend Fulke Greville, and his niece Mary Wroth.

This book examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, the most influential writer of the Elizabethan period. It does so by looking closely at Sidney and at four writers who had an important stake in his afterlife: his sister Mary Sidney, his brother Robert Sidney, his best friend Fulke Greville, and his niece Mary Wroth.

Herd tells a pre-history of the Hostile Environment, returning to a period, following the Second World War, when the brutal consequences of a politics of expulsion were visible. The book is a deep defence of human rights at a moment when such rights are under attack. It shows how we can resist and think beyond the politics of border and nation.

A comprehensive guide to writing and drafting from the first stage of preparation to the final edit. Features checklists, worked examples and chapters on using email, and designed to accompany readers from vocational study through to their qualification as solicitors as well as throughout the early years of practice.

Speech and writing form the basis of much modern critical thinking, but there is little consensus about what they are or whether there is any essential difference between them. This book argues that the differences between speech and writing are created by social forces and explores how these differences act as a foundation for the literary construction of national identity in the particular context of 19th-century Scottish fiction, through the novels and stories of four key writers: Walter Scott, James Hogg, R.L. Stevenson and Margaret Oliphant.

In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a whole, focusing on Byzantine conceptions of the role of poetry in society.