While some might consider epistolary novels of the long-eighteenth century as the
sentimental purview of women readers, this research proposes that many of these epistolary …

In this essay, I argue that Smith's final children's book, Conversations Introducing Poetry
(1804), privileges observation as the central and most responsible way to interact with the …

This essay argues that the figure of the firefly sheds light on an environmental poetics that
expands our understanding of how literature represented slavery in the Romantic period …

Despite the widespread use of “pastoral” and “georgic” in scholarship on British Romantic
literature, few scholars have considered nineteenth-century children's books as a subgenre …

Abstract To the Woman of England: Charlotte Smith's Rural Walks–Charlotte Smith proposes
her children's literature as a genre shaped by reflections on gender. The work Rural Walks …

Douglas Adams, in his Dirk Gently series, presents his protagonist as a “holistic detective”.
Following in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, the detective bases his claims on scientific …

This thesis demonstrates a new methodology for the linguistic analysis of literature drawing
on the data within The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (2009) …

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