English Literature

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and polit...

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, an...

Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learnt, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers ...

Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings o...

Harold Pinter by Mark Taylor-Batty, 8126913053, 9788126913053, Atl-NorthH

Genre is a key means by which we categorize the many forms of literature and culture. But it is also much more than that: in talk and writing, in m...

This is an exploration of Kafka’s work in the context both of his own complicated world - that of a Czech Jew writing in German within a crumbling ...

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Edmund Spenser (1554-1599) was the greatest Elizabethan poet, whose Shepheardes Calendar (1579) inaugurated a revolution in English poetry, and who...

This book provides a clear account of the development and the scope of the sonnet form in Britain.

Nicholas Royle presents a new Forster – one that has emerged from the posthumous publication of his explicitly homosexual fiction (since 1971) and ...

This text explores the concept of these related terms and considers the complex relationship that exists between all three. This useful guidebook i...

This study covers a wide range of Doris Lessing's works, including all of the novels (from The Grass is Singing through The Golden Notebook to The ...

Br>dh. Lawrence’s reputation as a central figure of modernism has long been secure, but this new reading looks at his work in the light of a ser...

This classic guide offers a thorough and accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of literary analysis....

This authoritative guide introduces the key figures in contemporary critical theory to the beginning student. Important topics in critical theory w...

Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage...

What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definit...

William Blake is a poet without parallel, who remains a source of wisdom and inspiration to countless individuals throughout the world. This select...

Christopher Marlowe is a writer of energy and extravagance. Plays such as Doctor Faustus, Edward the Second, The Jew of Malta, and Tamburlaine cont...

The works of C. S. Lewis appeal widely to a variety of audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling chronicles of narnia, though W...

After Shakespeare the most famous British author in Europe, in Britain Byron was for years either neglected, or a victim of the myth of his own per...