English Literature

The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods tha...

Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Christopher MacGowan, 1405131748, 9781405131742, Blackwell

This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays. Covers both significant early views and recent ...

From the Back CoverA COMPANION TO SCOTTISH LITERATURE A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions b...

From the Back CoverTwentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible and imaginative guide to the criticism of British and Irish poetry in the the twentieth century. The editors also supply their own stimulating readings of the poetr...

From the Back Cover'This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O'Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poets with judiciously chosen extracts fr...

From the Back CoverTragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting volume that explores the theory and practice of tragedy from the Greek tragedians to the present day, tracing important developments, continuities and discontinuities in the tr...

From the Back CoverAcclaimed for the lyric beauty of her prose, Toni Morrison is recognized as one of America's finest novelists. But the distinguished career of this Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author encompasses many literary genre...

From the Back CoverThe Novel Now is a scrupulous and entertaining account of what has happened to British fiction since 1970. It exposes pretentious and self-indulgent writers and celebrates those novelists whose qualities are exceptional. The boo...

From the Back CoverA New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology In A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology, an interdisciplinary collection of established scholars and members of a new generation of innovative researchers provide a comprehensive ...

From the Back CoverBLACKWELL CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES General Editor - Claude Rawson "John Worthen's literary biography is beautifully written, thoughtful, compact, and well-researched. Firmly grounded in the facts of Shelley's mundane existence (it g...

From the Back CoverThis Handbook of English Linguistics brings together articles from the core areas of English linguistics, including syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, as well as variation, discourse, stylistics, and usage. Written by spe...

From the Back CoverNow in its second edition and fully revised throughout, The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics contains 42 in-depth chapters written by a panel of well-established and contemporary scholars that explore the application of linguist...

From the Back CoverThe Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of over 30 original articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of applied linguistics. The handbook is divided in parts that demonstrate the two ...

From the Back CoverThe Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature spans the full sweep of literary genres, figures, and global contexts that define this influential period, blending accessibility with an unmatched breadth of coverage and authoritative s...

From the Back CoverComprehensive and wide-ranging, The Encyclopedia of the Gothic brings together over 200 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars writing on all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, along with chal...

From the Back Cover Bringing together scholarship on multilingual and intercultural medieval Britain as never before, The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain comprises over 600 authoritative entries spanning key figures, contexts, and i...

From the Back CoverAvailable online or as a 3-volume print set, The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy is a comprehensive and accessible reference covering all of Greek comedy and its reception from antiquity to the present. Under the editorship of an e...

From the Back CoverWith more than 300 accessible entries on the important concepts, theorists, and trends in post-1900 literary and cultural theory, The Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory provides a highly informative reference work in t...

From the Back CoverThe Companion to Language Assessment is a state-of-the-art overview of the crucial topics for scholars and practitioners of language assessment, teaching, and learning. The four-volume work examines the multifaceted dimensions o...

From the Back CoverThe Chaucer Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive and academically rigorous overview of the life, times, works, and influence of Geoffrey Chaucer (b. 1340s d. 1400). Approximately 1,400 entries written by renowned Chaucer specia...

From the Back CoverThis collection of personal essays offers a reflective window into the lifelong calling that is Shakespeare in the university classroom. It acknowledges the traditions in which these scholars work and the teachers who have advis...

From the Back CoverReading the Twentieth-Century American Novel, 1920-2010 is an instructive and insightful companion for students and scholars of American literature. It situates the American novel within the broader social, political, and artist...

From the Back CoverThis critical study is an authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpreta...

From the Back CoverConcise enough to be assimilated in a single session, this short volume maps the wonders of Milton's poetic landscape. The book offers an exploration of some of the main narrative and poetic elements of the epic poem - qualities...

From the Back CoverThe Poetry TOOLKIT "The Poetry Toolkit is a splendid guide for anyone who wants to understand better how poetry works, how to read it more insightfully, and what is involved in writing it. William Harmon draws on decades of expe...

From the Back CoverThe Anglo-Saxons produced a stunning array of writings both in Latin and, importantly, in the English language of their time. By the end of the Middle Ages, however, Old English literature had fallen into oblivion. It was not un...

From the Back CoverWhile most grammar books start and stop with an explanation of parts of speech and sentence structure, Navigating English Grammar goes a step further to provide an overview of the field, with a discussion of historical and curre...

From the Back Cover"Challenging Fiction" is a double entendre. This unusual book argues that modernist fiction is not only difficult (or challenging) to read, it also provokes readers to challenge the fictions that they live by. To read modernist ...

From the Back CoverWho was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Viennese doctor Sigmund Freud and lived at his side for more than fifty years as wif...

From the Back CoverMaking Waves: The History of Variationist Sociolinguistics tells the human story of an academic field based on one-on-one interviews with 43 of the most famous scholars in Variationist Socioinguistics. It is a first person histo...

From the Back CoverAfter reading a few pages of a book, you might find yourself gripped, moved, bored, or--in the case of far too many literary "classics"--somewhat astonished that it ever got into print at all. While initial impressions are often...

From the Back CoverIncorporating the wealth of developments in this interdisciplinary and dynamic field over the last decade, this second edition ensures that the Handbook remains the authoritative reference volume on the study and analysis of lan...

From the Back CoverThis engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this boo...

From the Back CoverShakespeare's works were among the very first English secular texts to be edited. The long history of adapting them has positioned them as a catalyst for theories of editing and textuality. A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and...

From the Back CoverSpanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology brings together an exceptional range of literature, including many works by women writers of the period, se...

From the Back CoverAmerican Literature in Context to 1865 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the pre-Columbian period to th...

From the Back CoverA History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England from the 1890s to the Second World War. From the New Woman writers and Ford Madox Ford's The English Review to seminal works such as BLAST, Uly...

From the Back CoverA History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre-Columbian origins to the present day. Richard Gray, one of the leading authorities on American lit...

From the Back CoverThe fourth volume in a new and innovative series exploring literature through the variegated lenses of critical theory, this bold new collection of essays examines canonical modernist texts by making sense of the conceptual, phi...

From the Back CoverA Handbook of Romanticism Studies features a collection of original essays by leading scholars, examining the literature of the Romantic period through the lens of critical and cultural theory. The entries explore key terms orga...

From the Back CoverAshley Tauchert's new book questions the widespread use of Transgression as a term of critical analysis and approval. Tauchert takes the concept back to its origins in the compelling thought experiments of Georges Bataille and t...

From the Back CoverA Future for Criticism offers an original approach to the pleasures of fiction, and puts forward an explanation for the neglect of these pleasures in contemporary criticism. Theorist and critic Catherine Belsey argues that curre...

From the Back CoverReflecting the increased awareness of global forms of English, great strides have been made in the study of varieties of the language in recent decades. A Dictionary of Varieties of English provides a comprehensive overview and ...

From the Back CoverThrough a series of case studies written by a global team of international scholars, this Concise Companion demonstrates how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy - an important cult...

From the Back CoverA Concise Companion to Middle English Literature examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approximately 1100 and 1500. The essays in the book are fo...

From the Back CoverArguably the greatest novelist yet to emerge from the United States, William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, among other awards, for his narrative reconstructions of life in the US South....

From the Back CoverA Companion to Thomas Hardy brings together new essays on all aspects of Thomas Hardy's work by thirty of the world's most distinguished Hardy scholars. Groundbreaking insights are revealed through examinations of his novels, sh...