Ivan Eyre

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!”From a tragic childhood when she is abused physically and emotionally by ...

Overlooked or dismissed by critics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jane Eyre first began to attract serious critical attention in the 1970s as New Critical, formal...

Before there was Shirley Temple or Judy Garland or Fanny Brice, before musical comedy even existed as a genre, Maggie Mitchell (1836-1918) consistently drew sold-out crowds for fou...

Jean Rhys' writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the texts and their language. The book explores the vario...