English Literature

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 Cover[PUFF TO FOLLOW] Transnationalism in Practice brings together fourteen essays written by Paul Giles between 1994 and 2009 on the subjects of American studies, literature and religion. In an introduction written especially for th...

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 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 CoverProvides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuries Bringing together sixty-five newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the m...

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 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 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**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 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 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 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*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 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 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 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 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...

From the Back CoverA student's introduction to the sounds of English This textbook introduces the main units and concepts you require to describe speech sounds accurately. By working through the book and the various exercises included, you will co...

From the Back CoverEDINBURGH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Series Editors: Joseph Salmons and David Willis Edinburgh Historical Linguistics is a series of advanced textbooks, where individual volumes cover key subfields within Historical Linguistics in d...

From the Back CoverAUTHOR APPROVED 'An excellent introductory guide to the field of contemporary theoretical and experimental phonetics.' Professor Chris Code, University of Exeter 'Encourages students to think about the issues themselves, to unde...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748623068); This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstr...

About the Book Reconsiders Virginia Woolf's work for the 21st century focusing on coevolution, duality and contradiction. These eleven newly commissioned essays represent the evolution, or coevolution, of Woolf studies in the early twenty-first ce...

About the Book Praise for the previous edition "I am sorry it did not exist when I was a student... and I expect it to be a useful addition to every linguistics student's bookshelf." Nordic Journal of Linguistics The go-to- companion for anyone st...

About the Book The most concentrated and wide-ranging study of Walter Scott's work available. This Companion is the first collection of its kind devoted to Scott's work. It draws on the innovative research which has revitalised the study of Scott'...

About the Book This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts. The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographica...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748625826); Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. The book builds feeling and embodied experience on to the insights into meaningfulness which the cognitive approach to li...