Arts, Literature and Humanities

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary...

The History of Archaeology: An Introduction provides global coverage with chapters devoted to particular regions of the world. The regional approac...

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues...

Why do we read? What happens to our imaginations when we read? To our knowledge? What creative forces are unleashed? What are the wider implication...

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing...

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the hi...

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual m...

Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of...

A ground-breaking resource available either online or as a 10-volume print set bringing together historic and emerging areas of research within app...

The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics-Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, L...

The Confident Writer has taught countless students the fundamentals of writing?how to turn a good idea into a full, polished essay?with an eye to a...

Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributio...

The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands o...

An introduction to literary theory unlike any other, Ten Lessons in Theory engages its readers with three fundamental premises. The first premise i...

Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featurin...

Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contem...

Solving Critical Design Problems demonstrates both how design is increasingly used to solve large, complex, modern-day problems and, as a result, h...

Have wireless mobile communication technologies changed the way people talk to one another? This volume takes a global perspective and provides rea...

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of c...

Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless...

Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the...

In this inspiring introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare, leading scholar, David Bevington, asks what makes Shakespeare great,...

Sentence Structure: introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose is based on a problem-solving approach to language teac...

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical ...

Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and autho...

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States ...

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonge...

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British an...

This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in estab...

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world’s earliest no...

A textbook introduction to morphological theory in the context of English. It offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in lingu...

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the...

Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century al...

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002 there have been many changes in language teaching, not least those associated with techn...

In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, a...

Literature Now provides a thought-provoking argument as well as an authoritative exploration of the key terms of literary studies. It will appeal t...

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism t...

The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, i...

Literary Theory: A Reintroduction introduces the current state of theory by placing it in its social, historical, and institutional contexts. Focu...

Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to the full range of contemporary approaches to the...

A comprehensive study of variation and change, including current debates in the area.

This title provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory. It includes Key Concepts in Literary ...

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing ...

Provides a guide to directions in literary criticism. This book offer chapters that introduce the modes of 'hybrid' criticism which have emerged in...

Lyle Campbell presents an accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics – one that does not just talk about the topics, but through p...

Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar, Fourth Edition, is the standard reference text for systemic functional linguistics and an ideal intr...

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics consists of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, designed f...

An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between A Level and university study. The book offers an accessi...