There are original discussions, in the light of chronology, of the scandal affecting the Brontë’s brother, Branwell, and the imaginary kingdoms shared by all four children.

Including reviews of existing literature, and an outline of key contemporary topics, this absorbing book skilfully explains why we have become so captivated by the lives and loves of the celebrity and, in so doing, presents the clearest, most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and accessible account of celebrity culture to date.

Who solved the malaria puzzle in Calcutta in 1898, Murugan is in search of the elusive Calcutta Chromosome.

Dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, and painter, August Strindberg’s diverse dramatic output embodied the modernist sensibility. He was above all one of the most radical innovators of Western theatre.

John Berryman (1914-1972) was one of the most important American poets and men of letters of the twentieth century. A major preoccupation of his work was his life-long quest for religious truth, in particular, his critical investigations into the claims of his lost Christian faith – a faith he portrays as being extinguished at the age of twelve by his father’s suicide, but dramatically reawakened four decades later by his encounter in the alcoholics’ ward with the ‘God of Rescue’.

The artistic realm of Shakespeare illustrations and theatre posters, and Shakespeare’s presence in nineteenth-century Europe and America.

This original volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Nineteenth-Century literature and Postcolonial studies.

This innovative study examines a range of canonical and non-canonical materials to open a new narrative on the mutually illuminating interchange between Romantic literature and philological theory in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Arguing that philology can no longer be treated as something that did not happen to Romantic authors.

Shakespeare’s Culture in Modern Performance is an original study at the interface of a historicizing literary criticism and the study of modern performance.

The collection also provides a helpful Chronology and detailed Bibliography.