English Literature

This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s ...

The writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge are crucial to the literature of European Romanticism. As well as the early poems such as The Ancient Marin...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...

Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars a...

Coming to prominence with the nineteenth-century novel, literary realism has most often been associated with the insistence that art cannot turn aw...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

In this brilliantly provocative and comprehensively informative introductory text, Niall Lucy shows the student how postmodern literary theory work...

Pope to Burney, 1714-1779, Scriblerians to Bluestocking by Moyra Haslett, 113761207X, 9781137612076, Palgr Mac

Percy Bysshe Shelley by Paul Hamilton, 8126912936, 9788126912933, Atl-NorthH

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This c...

Oscar Wilde by Alexandra Warwick, 812691291X, 9788126912919, Atl-NorthH

Beginning with the nature of literature, this also asks the questions of why we should read literature and why literature has such authority over u...

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considers deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and...

The new series of writers and their work continues a tradition of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide rang...

Tolstoy’s art as represented in his greatest novels: War and Peace and Anna Karenina continues to absorb, fascinate and delight modern readers desp...

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from wh...

Key Features Shorter text-Chapter 12,"Writing," moved to the website. Per reviewers, teachers don't have time to teach this chapter but it's very v...

This book is a splendid profile of an extraordinary man, and a radically new interpretation of one of the most controversial figures in history. Ca...

The new series of writers and their work continues a tradition of innovative critical studies introducing writers and their contexts to a wide rang...

Locating Conrad’s work in the context of the writer’s life and cultural milieu, Professor Watts’s study examines the main phase in Conrad’s literar...

This reader-friendly introduction makes Joyce asscessible by combining the excitement of reading his words with the excitement of interpreting them.

A clear, concise guide to the history and structure of irony from Socrates to the Derrida and Deleuze. Explores the philosophical, literary and pol...

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