Jane Austen s last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen s achievement.

Essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

In If It Is Sweet, precisely etched characters collide, the blind suddenly seeing the blind. Mridula Koshy plumbs the chasms across which they stare, asking the question: what is it people see when they see one another? Her characters are proximate, though from vastly different class backgrounds. Servants and mistresses.

Charles Dickens is rightly hailed as the grand master of Victorian literature. His astonishing range extends from tales of political intrigue to poignant coming-of-age sagas,

Discusses cooking in Jane Austen's England and provides more than 200 period and modernized recipes.

This casebook probes the many layers of meaning in Golding's "Lord of the Flies". It examines its literary, philosophical, historical, scientific and religious significance, integrating primary and secondary documents, with extracts from texts as diverse as the Bible and war crimes interviews.

Illuminates the food, habits, language, behaviour, sex lives, childhoods, health care, housing, and attitudes of 18th-century English people. The text focuses specifically on the century's politics, class structures, family structures, architecture, and urban and rural environments.