In chapters on 1860s Victorian sensation novels, George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil" and Henry James's Charlotte Bront毛's and Robert Browning's I pursue two related lines of inquiry. First, I explore the historical and cultural contexts of confession in the nineteenth century: how developments ...
The numbers of black and Asian officers in the Met have increased, but the targets set by Straw a decade ago are still woefully short. Was he too ambitious? 'Absolutely not. To quote Robert Browning: "A man's reach should always exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?" ' Were ...
might have meant anything or nothing in the absence of any context; and, secondly, that the initials of four Latin “finger-posts” out of several hundreds in one of my books made vulgar words, such as may be found in Sir Thomas Malory, John Keats, Robert Browning, Shakespeare, Urquhart...
In chapters on 1860s Victorian sensation novels, George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil" and Henry James's The Aspern Papers, Charlotte Bronte's Villette, and Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, I pursue two related lines of inquiry. First, I explore the historical and cultural contexts of...