From the Book - Regular Print
Fabulous beginnings : myth
Writing for nations : epic
Theatre on the street : the mystery plays
The book of Books : the King James Bible
Minds unchained : the Metaphysicals
Nations rise : Milton and Spenser
Who 'owns' literature? : printing, publishing, and copyright
Travellers' tall tales : Defoe, Swift, and the rise of the novel
How to read : Dr. Johnson
The sharpest mind : Austen
Books for you : the changing reading public
Life in literature : the Brontës
Under the blankets : literature and children
Flowers of decadence : Wilde, Baudelaire, Proust, and Whitman
Poets laureate : Tennyson
New lands : America and the American voice
The great pessimist : Hardy
Dangerous books : literature and the censor
Empire : Kipling, Conrad, and Forster
Doomed anthems : the War Poets
The year that changed everything : 1922 and the Modernists
A literature of her own : Woolf
Brave new worlds : utopias and dystopias
Boxes of tricks : complex narratives
Off the page : literature on film, TV and the stage
Absurd existences : Kafka, Camus, Beckett and Pinter
The poetry of breakdown : Lowell, Plath, Larkins, and Hughes
Colourful cultures : literature and race
Magical realisms : Borges, Grass, Rushdie, and Márquez
Republic of letters : literature without borders
Guilty pleasures : bestsellers and potboilers
Who's best? : prizes, festivals and reading groups
Literature in your lifetime ... and beyond.
