Extended critical discussions of The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette emphasize their thematic burdens and biographical elements.

A critical examination of C.S. Lewis as a novelist and man of letters.

One chapter is devoted to her life, and the other chapters each emphasize a subject of thematic and aesthetic importance and two or three of her fictional works.

Organizing her material both by groups of writers and by common themes, Nelson chronicles the historical, literary, and social forces affecting women writers at the fin de siecle and considers the works of well-known and lesser-known writers. Fiction written for the notable Yellow Book is given a separate chapter, for example, as are women's writings centering on marriage and on the woman as artist. While emphasizing the feminist viewpoint throughout,...

Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry and prose with biographical information.

I have tried to proved a straightforward account of Browning's poetic career as a whole, to give special attention to works and issues of special interest, and to gloss with cogent events in the life of the poet. Despite awareness of the dangers, I have hoped to say something useful or interesting about every book and every poem that Browning published. And at the very least, I do place every book and poem at its appropriate position in the poet's...

Examines the history of the Arthurian legends and their role in English and American literature up to the present. One chapter is devoted to Malory's Morte Darthur.