Palgrave Macmillan Literature Award Winners and Nominees

Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture by Clare Brant has been awarded the 2008 ESSE Book Award in the field of Literatures in the English Language.

Two other Palgrave Macmillan titles, Why Shakespeare by Catherine Belsey, and Consumption and Literature by Clark Lawlor were also shortlisted.

A Counter-History of Crime Fiction by Maurizio Ascari an- d Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou were both shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award (critical/ biographical category). Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction was also shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Critical Work of 2007.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life by William Christie has been awarded the 2008 NSW Premier's Award for Literary Scholarship. The judges commented that his book was 'a brilliant, even dazzling contribution to international literary criticism'.

Children & Theatre in Victorian Britain, by Anne Varty, was shortlisted for the 2007 Theatre Book Prize. This award goes to an outstanding work of original research into any aspect of the history and technique of the British theatre.

Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter, by Susan Oliver, won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, an annual award from the British Academy.

Choice Magazine's list of outstanding academic titles 2006
William Blake: A Literary Life by John Beer
The Nineteenth-Century Sonnet by Joseph Phelan
Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture by Clare Brant


Gothic Horror by Clive Bloom was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writer's Association.