English Literature

Teaching Literature is an inspirational guidebook for all teachers of English and American literature in higher education. Written by leading acad...

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...

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...

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

Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most...

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