English Literature

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....

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...

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...

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This edited collection is about the application of English grammar and specialises in 'functional' and'corpus' approaches, approaches which are inc...

this study relates Trollope to the broad Victorian culture to which he offered a distinctive, creative response. It looks particularly at the natur...

This new study of Andrew Marvell offers a state-of-the-art guide to one of the most intriguing and elusive poets of the seventeenth century. Hero t...

Who is more important: the reader, or the writer? Originally published in French in 1966, Pierre Macherey’s first and most famous work, A Theory of...

This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major mov...

Key Features Keith Johnson, a leading phonetician, has revised the material on acoustic phonetics to incorporate developments in technology and res...

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830 to 1900. Consisting of a series of original essays written by prominen...

The diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies is brought alive in this stimulating Companion. Winner of the Milton Society of ...