First published in 1997, Reinventing Allegory asks how and why allegory has survived as a
literary mode from the late Renaissance to the postmodern present. Three chapters on …

In the long eighteenth century, sympathy was understood not just as an emotional bond, but
also as a physiological force, through which disruption in one part of the body produces …

Putting Econometrics in its Place is an original and fascinating book, in which Peter Swann
argues that econometrics has dominated applied economics for far too long and displaced …

This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the
longevity and complexity of Blakes reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is …

This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as
how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day …

The twelve essays in this edited collection examine the experience of reading, from the late
medieval period to the twentieth century. Central to the theme of the book is the role of …

Examining the literary career of the eighteenth-century Irish painter James Barry, 1741-1806
through an interdisciplinary methodology, The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of …

Aphorisms on Man, like few other books of its size or content, has remained part of the scene
of literary history owing to the combined efforts of three men, its Swiss author, Johann …

Abstract This essay explores Walter Scott's theories of dialogue, and in particular his
comparisons of fictional speech to the art of painting. I argue that in prefatory material to both …

John William Polidori (1795-1821) was appointed as the personal physician to Lord George
Noel Gordon, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) in April 1816. Byron was not in the best of …