Books from Liverpool English Texts and St

  • Image of a Man: The Journal of Keith Vaughan
    Image of a Man: The Journal of Keith Vaughan
    By Alex Belsey

    His friend Alan Ross recalls that 'Keith was by nature a stoic and a fatalist',25 so it is unsurprising that he dramatized in the journal his retreat to a rural idyll, in doing so conscientiously objecting to modern life itself.

  • Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film
    Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film
    By Chris Hopkins

    ... Walter greenWood (adapted from Walter greenWood's novel of the same name). ronald gow was a teacher at altrincham grammar school during the 1920s and 1930s (altrincham being part of the Manchester Metropolitan Borough of trafford).

  • Twenty-first-century Readings of E.M. Forster's Maurice
    Twenty-first-century Readings of E.M. Forster's Maurice
    By Emma Sutton, Tsung-Han Tsai

    For this reason, Maurice decides to enter this alluring Aesthete's world. Once he has slipped into Trinity after the gates have closed, he announces himself at Risley's rooms. Not insignificantly, it is Maurice's movement into this ...

  • Remaking the Voyage: New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and 'in Ballast to the White Sea'
    Remaking the Voyage: New Essays on Malcolm Lowry and 'in Ballast to the White Sea'
    By Helen Tookey, Bryan Biggs

    He was a literary figure, thoughtful about movies and, especially, about moviegoers. He was one of those ordinary men and women of cinema, to adapt terminology from Schefer's The Ordinary Man of Cinema: 'At the movies, ...

  • The Male Body in Medicine and Literature
    The Male Body in Medicine and Literature
    By Andrew Mangham, Daniel Lea

    Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, this collection explores how medicine has interacted with key moments in literature and culture.

  • Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction
    Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction
    By Stewart King, Jesper Gulddal, Alistair Rolls

    If we are to hear the voices of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), we shall need to balance out what might be considered an armchair analysis, 'distinctly distanced from the texts themselves' ...

  • Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform
    Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform
    By Kevin A. Morrison

    ... Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850–1920 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017), pp. 162–89; Geoffrey A. C. Ginn, Culture, Philanthropy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), pp ...