A classic and highly controversial exposé of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of ‘Inside the Brotherhood’.  Meer

Brings together seventeen articles by renowned literary historian Stephen Knight / Focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval...  Meer

Brings together seventeen articles by renowned literary historian Stephen Knight / Focuses on the social and political meaning of medieval...  Meer

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels.  Meer

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, historical, and political commentary Collins offered within his works, illuminating Collins as more than a successful crime and sensation author, or the fortunate recipient of Dicken’s grand patronage, but as a hard-thinking and lively-writing part of the rich mid-Victorian literary scene.  Meer

Delivering fresh insight into the variety and richness of Collins’ themes and arguments, this volume provides a key source of information and analysis on all Collins’ fiction.  Meer

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, reaching an enormous audience through his thirty-six novels.  Meer

Discusses in detail the books selected as the most popular and influential mysteries across time. Starting with Caleb Williams (William Godwin) and Edgar Huntly (Charles Brockden Brown), the series moves through the great detective authors, considers lesser-known important early books, and examines more recent titles to show the increasing variety in the mystery genre.  Meer

Examines the origins of the urban mystery genre, which sought to grapple with the rise of enormous, anonymous cities, beginning in France in 1842, then spreading rapidly across the continent and into America and Australia.  Meer

Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice.  Meer

English Industrial Fiction of the Mid-Nineteenth Century discusses the valuable fiction written in mid-nineteenth century Britain which represents the situations of the new breed of industrial workers.  Meer

Explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the middle ages to the present stands up for the values of natural law and true justice.  Meer

In this book Stephen Knight, long-established as an authority on the genre and now back in Melbourne, tells in detail and with analytic coherence the story of a rich but previously little-known national crime fiction.  Meer

This book describes how medieval authors represent the natural world – both seeing it in terms of natural and animal forces and meanings, but also as a different domain that can cast a revealing and critical light on the human and urban world.  Meer