English Literature

From the Back CoverPresents a new way to categorize Englishes around the globe This book brings together two types of varieties of English that have so far been treated separately: postcolonial and non-postcolonial Englishes. It examines these var...

From the Back Cover***AUTHOR APPROVED*** The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature 2nd Edition Edited by Dermot Cavanagh, Alan Gillis, Michelle Keown, James Loxley and Randall Stevenson New edition of this established guide to stud...

From the Back CoverWalter Scott in the twenty-first century In Scott at 250, major scholars revisit Walter Scott as a theorist of tomorrow, as the surveyor of the complexities of the present who also gazes, as we do, toward an anxious and hopeful ...

From the Back Cover'In this insightful, carefully researched and accessible study, Emma Simone provides the first sustained comparative analysis of Woolf's and Heidegger's accounts of Being-in-the-world. Effortlessly weaving together readings and ...

From the Back CoverAnalyses the translations of the Eclogues, Georgics and the Aeneid to reflect the cultural influence of Virgil over the decades of the seventeenth century This book considers the writers who translated Virgil into English during...

From the Back CoverTake your Urdu vocabulary from intermediate to advanced This textbook is designed to develop intermediate students' Urdu language skills to advanced proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking. Each module is based on a regist...

From the Back CoverProvides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century This groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features 20 new essays on key authors ass...

From the Back CoverRenaissance Dramatists Series Editor, Sean McEvoy An invaluable resource for all students of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, each volume in the series provides an authoritative and up-to-date survey of a major dramatist's work...

From the Back Cover*NOT YET AUTHOR-APPROVED* THOMAS HARDY'S SHORTER FICTION A CRITICAL STUDY SOPHIE GILMARTIN AND ROD MENGHAM This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writi...

From the Back Cover'Very readable and often witty, David Ellis draws attention to the fact that all recent biographies of William Shakespeare, though claiming to add to our knowledge of the poet's life, cannot really do so because the body of dire...

From the Back Cover'The Politics of Romanticism makes a compelling case for the significance of social contract theory as a tradition of philosophical and political thought, and is likely to become an important reference point for scholars of key ...

From the Back CoverThe Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues: An Introduction Stuart Sim This study introduces readers to the eighteenth-century novel through a consideration of contemporary social issues. Eighteenth-century auth...

From the Back Cover'Editor James Acheson's latest symposium of essays by leading scholars in the field, The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000, takes the reader forward from the point where his earlier collection, The Contemporary British Novel...

From the Back Cover*APPROVED* PPC 15mm, 274 x 367mm 'Jennifer Smith offers an excellent examination of the relationship between literary innovation and the experience of modernity. She persuasively demonstrates how the American short story cycle, ...

From the Back CoverSeries Editor: Kevin Curran Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy takes seriously the speculative and world-making properties of Shakespeare's art. Maintaining a broad view of 'philosophy' that accommodates fo...

From the Back CoverShakespeare in Theory and Practice Catherine Belsey 'All of the essays attest to Belsey's career-long commitment to theory and its ability to deliver new ways of reading ... Her attention in this collection to materiality and wo...

From the Back Cover'In this highly original discussion, J. F. Bernard provides a comprehensive analysis of Shakespeare's distinctive understanding of melancholia. Working with a range of classical and early modern sources, he reveals a complex ten...

From the Back Cover'"What is Judgment?", Kevin Curran asks in this volume's lucid introduction. The answers proffered here demonstrate the category's centrality to religion, law, rhetoric, ethics and philosophy, as well as to the practice of theat...

From the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the rea...

From the Back CoverAnalyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic love Beginning with how the signifier 'will' operates in Shakespea...

From the Back Cover*APPROVED* Illuminates our understanding of the soul as a historically and philosophically vital concept through Shakespearean drama Second Death seeks to revitalise our understanding of the soul as a philosophically profound, t...

From the Back Cover'The 600,000 men who fought in Scottish regiments or in the Navy and Air Force during the Great War fought for Scotland, to them a palpable space of affect and meaning. This important book of essays breaks new ground in capturin...

From the Back Cover**AUTHOR APPROVED** Samuel Beckett: Laughing Matters, Comic Timing 'This beautifully written study takes the reader on an exhilarating journey through a wealth of comic manifestations in Beckett's work. It's nuanced and insightf...

From the Back CoverExplores Robert Louis Stevenson's collaborative process This book investigates Stevenson's literary collaborations with family and friends as he travelled Scotland, America and the Pacific. With critical readings of both major a...

From the Back CoverA broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of Revolutions Cutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book highlights revolutionary movements in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean between t...

From the Back Cover'Reading Digital Data, alongside its companion volume, offers an approachable introduction to digital humanities research methods without swamping the non-specialist reader with terminology and technical debates. This ensures th...

From the Back CoverWhat Shakespearean scholars said about the first edition: 'One of the most readable works of Shakespeare scholarship I've encountered in a long time - and one that articulates a wise and heartening vision for a new ethical human...

From the Back CoverA new theory of the structure of phonological representations for segments and syllables Based on 30 years of research, this book presents a theory about the 'speech sounds' that occur in human spoken and signed languages. Ident...

From the Back CoverAUTHOR-APPROVED Postcolonial Literary Studies Series Editors: David Johnson and Ania Loomba This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature. The books relate key literary and ...

From the Back CoverAUTHOR-APPROVED BLURB AUTHORS SEEKING 2 FURTHER ENDORSEMENTS Second Edition [Flash] 'This is the text of choice for all students and teachers of poetry'. Professor Duncan Wu, Georgetown University, US 'An essential tool for stud...

From the Back CoverAUTHOR-APPROVED COPY Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell & Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will init...

From the Back CoverMigrating Meanings: Sharing Keywords in a Global World By James W. Underhill and Mariarosaria Gianninoto Headline Exploring the roots of four keywords for our times: Europe, the citizen, the individual, and the people Blurb With...

From the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell & Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the r...

From the Back CoverA bold new study of photographic and literary depictions of London in the 1930s London Writing in the 1930s offers a new perspective on the decade that has long been associated with the Auden generation and the rise of documenta...

From the Back Cover*AUTHOR APPROVED* Lesbian Modernism pits highbrow modernist experimentation against popular genre fiction to offer fresh perspectives on the literary representation of Sapphic love and desire. Conceptually ambitious and deeply r...

From the Back CoverThis series supports the study of core topics that form substantial and identifiable parts of Linguistics degree courses as taught in the later years of undergraduate study. Each volume provides an in-depth introduction to a par...

From the Back CoverEDINBURGH TEXTBOOKS IN TESOL Series Editors: Joan Cutting and Fiona Farr This series of advanced textbooks in TESOL comprises individual volumes addressing an identifiable subfield within TESOL in more depth than would be found ...

From the Back Cover'Though writing a century apart and enjoining readers to think in such different ways about human experience, Austen and Woolf are like no other novelists so much as they are like each other. Or so Morris shows. Her concept of "...

From the Back CoverJames Joyce: A Critical Guide Lee Spinks James Joyce: A Critical Guide presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the great modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from...

From the Back CoverCarry out basic stylistic analyses of different text types using a range of stylistic frameworks If you are an English language learner meeting stylistics for the first time, this textbook will familiarize you with the basic ter...

From the Back CoverExplores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage ...

From the Back CoverEighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies Suvir Kaul 'Introducing for the first time the preoccupations of Postcolonial studies in dialogue with a revisionist literary history of eighteenth-century Britain, ...

From the Back CoverAssembles for the first time the many different texts imagining the future after the end of apartheid Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes s...

From the Back CoverPraise for previous edition: "An excellent book for anyone wishing to become acquainted with corpus linguistics and its wide range of applications." Marlies Gabriele Prinzl, LINGUIST list "...offers informative and exciting step...

From the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell & Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the r...

From the Back Cover'Stewart's engagingly written and thought-provoking survey reveals an impressive command of disparate models, skilfully dissected and compared. This is a unique, and uniquely valuable, resource.' Andrew J. Spencer, Department of...

From the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Andy Mousley This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the rea...

From the Back CoverContact: The Interaction of Closely Related Linguistic Varieties and the History of English By Robert McColl Millar While much has been written on dialect formation through contact between dialects of the same language, the ques...

From the Back Cover*APPROVED* *APPROVED* Opens up the rich topic of Joseph Conrad's complex relationship with language Joseph Conrad was, famously, trilingual in Polish, French and English, and was also familiar with German, Russian, Dutch and Mal...

From the Back Cover'A significant contribution to modernist studies, Professor Kaplan's timely investigation of the Mansfield-Murry-Lawrence triangle illuminates their previously under-researched creative relationships. Her ability to convey the h...

From the Back CoverENDORSEMENTS BEING SOUGHT Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture Series Editor: Julian Wolfreys Drawing on provocative research, volumes in the series provide timely revisions of the nineteenth-century's literature and ...

From the Back CoverReveals how the body in Beckett, embedded in its material environment, exhibits embodied agency This book argues that the abject, decrepit body in Beckett does not signal the impossibility of agency but demands its reconceptuali...

From the Back Cover'Jonathan Edmondson has gathered a powerful collection of classic essays, written by the most influential historians and archaeologists to have tackled Rome's first emperor over the last half century. They are essential reading ...

From the Back CoverProvides a new model for understanding 20th-century British and Irish literatures as 'archipelagic' narratives Aimed at students taking their study of modern literature to an advanced level, John Brannigan argues that the litera...