English Literature

Subjectivity by Ruth Robbins, 1137612045, 9781137612045, Palgr Mac

This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare′s plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. Introduces beginning students and general...

Designed to accompany students throughout the whole of their English degree, this is a one-stop reference for all the information they need, both o...

A 'wilful extremist' according to the London Times, Hélène Cixous is hailed as one of the most formidable writers and thinkers of our time. Acclaim...

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of his life and work as bo...

Presents an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. This ti...

This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare’s comedies over the last four centuries. Guides students through four centuries ...

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and n...

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...

The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory is an indispensable aid for anyone approaching this exciting field of study for the first time. By explo...

Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and Am...

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...

Introducing students to a range of key thinkers who have sought to question the contemporary situation, this guidebook enables readers to begin to ...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

A powerful selection of essays by one of the most important critics in postcolonial studies, arguing for practices of reading and criticism fully a...

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

Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imaginati...