English Literature

Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects o...

Also known as An Apology for Poetry, The Defence of Poesy is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written around ...

English has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are generally considered a passpo...

In an era of globalization, mastering English language has assumed great significance. Communication in English has become an essential skill for t...

This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent ...

A new study of Shakespeare’s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. Combines an accessible fully histo...

Where is American Literature? offers a spirited and compelling argument for rethinking the way we view American literature in relation to the natio...

REVIEWS FROM HARDBACK EDITION: 'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past....

Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a...

Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses ho...

Concise and engaging, this text provides pre-service and practicing English language teachers with the knowledge they need to successfully teach th...

This outstanding practical guide to writing analytical essays on literature develops interpretive skills through focused exercises and modeled exam...

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobi...

Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that...

Pragmatics has grown considerably in its relatively short history, from its original disciplinary influences in philosophy and linguistics, into a ...

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, begin...

According to Bowker, there are over 150,000 books published in the U.S. every year. Less than 1 percent of the books published make the bestseller ...

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary...

The Handbook of the History of English is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that focus on the theoretical issues...

Why do we read? What happens to our imaginations when we read? To our knowledge? What creative forces are unleashed? What are the wider implication...

Writing autobiography is a complicated, often fraught activity for both writer and reader. We can find many recent examples of the way such writing...

Now available in a single volume paperback, this advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory offers authoritative accounts of the hi...

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual m...

Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of...

A ground-breaking resource available either online or as a 10-volume print set bringing together historic and emerging areas of research within app...

The Critic in the Modern World explores the work of six influential literary critics-Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot, L...

The Confident Writer has taught countless students the fundamentals of writing?how to turn a good idea into a full, polished essay?with an eye to a...

Available online or as a five-volume print set, The Blackwell Companion to Phonology is a major reference work drawing together 124 new contributio...

An introduction to literary theory unlike any other, Ten Lessons in Theory engages its readers with three fundamental premises. The first premise i...

Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featurin...

Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contem...

Have wireless mobile communication technologies changed the way people talk to one another? This volume takes a global perspective and provides rea...

Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless...

Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the...

In this inspiring introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare, leading scholar, David Bevington, asks what makes Shakespeare great,...

Sentence Structure: introduces the evidence for sentence structure and reveals its purpose is based on a problem-solving approach to language teac...

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical ...

Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and autho...

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States ...

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonge...

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British an...

This new anthology brings together the most diverse and recent voices in postcolonial theory to emerge since 9/11, alongside classic texts in estab...

Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society Having excavated the world’s earliest no...

A textbook introduction to morphological theory in the context of English. It offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in lingu...

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the...

Written in concise and clear language, this book offers an historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century al...

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002 there have been many changes in language teaching, not least those associated with techn...

In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, a...