Fiona Stafford offers intimate, detailed explorations of seventeen common trees, from ash and apple to pine, oak, cypress, and willow.

This is an innovative and wide-ranging study of the myth of the "Last of the Race" as it develops in a range of literary and non-literary texts from the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries.

"In this new biography, leading scholar Fiona Stafford offers a fresh perspective on Jane Austen's life and work, discussing her classic works in the context of the world in which they were published, and offering an informative and ...

Are literary ideasof originality and imitation, allusion and influence inherently political if the poems emerge from different sides of a border or of a colonial relationship?Taking as a framework the history of relations between Ireland, ...