Wiley-VCH - Literature

An Introduction to Criticism

Ryan, Michael — 6 Feb 2012 08:18:00 +0100

This book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism; it enables students to build a critical framework and write analytically. Michael Ryan offers a thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice covering traditional approaches as well as more recent developments in criticism. Explanations of key works and major ideas in literary criticism and readings from contemporary critics round out this accessible text. [206 Pages, Hardcover]

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An Introduction to Criticism

Ryan, Michael — 6 Feb 2012 08:17:59 +0100

Reading Victorian Poetry

Cronin, Richard — 23 Jan 2012 08:17:50 +0100

Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a highly renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers. It skillfully conveys the breadth and diversity of nineteenth-century poetry and offers an ideal balance of canonical and less well-known writers, allowing readers to explore the poetry of the Victorian era, through the eyes of one of the most renowned scholars in the field. [248 Pages, Hardcover]

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Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Literature Part 2 SET

Sullivan, Garrett A. — 12 Jan 2012 08:17:35 +0100

[3072 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Companion to Arthurian Literature

Fulton, Helen (ed.) — 9 Jan 2012 08:18:11 +0100

This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur in film and electronic media. Leading scholars review Arthurian legends and their transformations, language-to-language, text-to-film, and medieval-to-modern adaptations are analyzed, and key concepts such as 'empire', 'romance' and 'chivalry' are explored. Part of Blackwell's popular Companions to Literature and Culture series, this volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and leaves no doubt as to why it is still important today. [592 Pages, Softcover]

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The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature

Sullivan, Garrett A. / Stewart, Alan — 9 Jan 2012 08:18:02 +0100

Featuring entries composed by leading international scholars, The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature presents comprehensive coverage of all aspects of English literature produced from the early 16th to the mid 17th centuries. Comprised of over 400 entries written by leading international scholars, it provides coverage of canonical authors and their works, as well as a variety of previously under-considered areas, including women writers, broadside ballads, commonplace books, and other popular literary forms. This major reference represents the most comprehensive resource available for those working in English Renaissance literary studies. [1360 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature

Burwick, Frederick / Goslee, Nancy Moore / Hoeveler, Diane Long (eds.) — 9 Jan 2012 08:17:58 +0100

The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature is an authoritative three-volume reference work that covers British artistic, literary, and intellectual movements between 1780 and 1830, within the context of European, transatlantic and colonial historical and cultural interaction. With its cohesive organization and in-depth coverage of Romantic genres, this encyclopedia sets a new standard for scholarship in the field, and will be an indispensible resource for all students and researchers of Romanticism. [1772 Pages, Hardcover]

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Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

Samuels, Shirley — 3 Jan 2012 08:18:04 +0100

Reading the American Novel provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period. Featuring in depth examinations of specific novels, it explores the social and historical contexts of the time to help the readers' understanding of the stories. It also explores questions of identity - about the novel, its 19th-century readers, and the emerging structure of the United States - as an important backdrop to understanding American fiction. [208 Pages, Hardcover]

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A History of Victorian Literature

Adams, James Eli — 3 Jan 2012 08:18:02 +0100

A History of Victorian Literature offers a wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900 exploring the extraordinarily varied literary production and reception of the Victorian age, with fresh considerations of major figures and new attention to neglected and less familiar careers. Drawing on a broad range of contemporary scholarship, this book analyzes the development of literary forms-the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose-in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history. [480 Pages, Softcover]

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William Faulkner

Matthews, John T. — 29 Dec 2011 08:18:05 +0100

This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner's literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernist method. Drawing on various critical approaches, it provides a coherent interpretation of the author's career, emphasizing Faulkner's receptivity to change, not just his critical resistance to it. Now available in paperback, William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South places Faulkner's art in context while concentrating on textual detail, technique, and thematic preoccupations across his career. [320 Pages, Softcover]

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A Companion to Jane Austen

Johnson, Claudia L. / Tuite, Clara (eds.) — 29 Dec 2011 08:18:03 +0100

A Companion to Jane Austen provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary Austen studies while covering the full breadth of the novelist's work and career. Focusing on changing contexts and cultures of reception, the text provides groundbreaking new interpretations in more than forty essays by a distinguished team of influential literary critics and Austen scholars. As a scholarly reference and comprehensive survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field, A Companion to Jane Austen illuminates the power of Austen's novels to enchant readers. [560 Pages, Softcover]

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Understanding Richard Hoggart

Bailey, Michael / Clarke, Ben / Walton, John K. — 19 Dec 2011 08:18:01 +0100

With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation. [232 Pages, Softcover]

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Understanding Richard Hoggart

Bailey, Michael / Clarke, Ben / Walton, John K. — 19 Dec 2011 08:18:00 +0100

Travels in China

Barthes, Roland — 14 Dec 2011 08:17:22 +0100

In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. While they were welcomed by writers and academics, the travelers were required to follow a pre-established itinerary, visiting factories and construction sites, frequenting shows and restaurants that were the mainstay of Western visitors to China in the 70s. Barthes planned to return from the trip with a book on China: the book never materialized, but he kept the diary notes he wrote at the time. The notes on things seen, smelled and heard alternate with reflections and remarks - meditations, critiques or notes of sympathy, an aside from the surrounding world. Published now for the first time more than thirty years after the trip, these notebooks offer a unique portrait of China at a time of turbulence and change, seen through the eyes of the world's greatest semiotician. [240 Pages, Hardcover]

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A History of American Literature

Gray, Richard — 28 Nov 2011 08:17:56 +0100

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, 2nd Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature. It covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction. It also explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers, and considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past thirty years. This book offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers. [928 Pages, Hardcover]

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A History of American Literature

Gray, Richard — 21 Nov 2011 08:18:02 +0100

A History of Modern Drama

Krasner, David — 31 Oct 2011 08:19:12 +0100

A History of Modern Drama, Volume I is the first of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama. Author David Krasner considers the influence of modernism in art, music, literature, architecture, society and politics and the impact these factors played in the formation of modern dramatic literature between 1879 and 1959. This volume highlights the transitional moments in the development of modern drama and understands drama as a literary document enriched by theoretical underpinnings, and as a blueprint for the stage. [416 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Guide to Old English

Mitchell, Bruce / Robinson, Fred C. — 24 Oct 2011 08:18:18 +0200

A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beginners' guide. * Provides a comprehensive introduction to Old English * Uses a practical approach suited to the needs of the beginning student * Features selections from the greatest works of Old English literature, organized from simple to more challenging texts to keep pace with the reader * Includes a discussion of Anglo-Saxon literature, history, and culture, and a bibliography directing readers to useful publications on the subject * Updated throughout with new material including the first 25 lines from Beowulf with detailed annotation and an explanation of Grimm's and Verner's laws [444 Pages, Softcover]

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Medieval Drama - An Anthology + Old and Middle English c.890 - c.1450 - An Anthology -Treharne and Walker Bundle

Walker, Greg — 24 Oct 2011 08:18:17 +0200

[1544 Pages, Softcover]

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Internal Colonization

Etkind, Alexander — 17 Oct 2011 08:18:34 +0200

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one's own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of empire, colonialism and globalization. Starting with the fur trade, which shaped its enormous territory, and ending with Russia's collapse in 1917, Etkind explores serfdom, the peasant commune, and other institutions of internal colonization. His account brings out the formative role of foreign colonies in Russia, the self-colonizing discourse of Russian classical historiography, and the revolutionary leaders' illusory hopes for an alliance with the exotic, pacifist sectarians. Transcending the boundaries between history and literature, Etkind examines striking writings about Russia's imperial experience, from Defoe to Tolstoy and from Gogol to Conrad. This path-breaking book blends together historical, theoretical and literary analysis in a highly original way. It will be essential reading for students of Russian history and literature and for anyone interested in the literary and cultural aspects of colonization and its aftermath. [264 Pages, Softcover]

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Internal Colonization

Etkind, Alexander — 17 Oct 2011 08:18:32 +0200

Eighteenth Century English Literature

Sussman, Charlotte — 17 Oct 2011 08:18:15 +0200

This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant cultural developments on literary themes and forms - including urbanization, colonial, and mercantile expansion, the emergence of the public sphere, and changes in sex and gender roles. In eighteenth-century Britain, many of the things we take for granted about modern life were shockingly new: women appeared for the first time on stage; the novel began to dominate the literary marketplace; people entertained the possibility that all human beings were created equal, and tentatively proposed that reason could triumph over superstition; ministers became more powerful than kings, and the consumer emerged as a political force. Eighteenth-Century English Literature: 1660-1789 explores these issues in relation to well-known works by such authors as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Gray, and Sterne, while also bringing attention to less familiar figures, such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Leapor, and Olaudah Equiano. It offers both an ideal introduction for students and a fresh approach for those with research interests in the period [200 Pages, Softcover]

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Eighteenth Century English Literature

Sussman, Charlotte — 17 Oct 2011 08:18:14 +0200

Performance and Power

Alexander, Jeffrey — 10 Oct 2011 08:17:55 +0200

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society. Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. Positioning social performance between ritual and strategy, he lays out the elements of social performance - from scripts to mise-en-scène, from critical mediation to audience reception - and systematically describes their tense interrelation. This is followed by a series of empirically oriented studies that demonstrate how cultural pragmatics transforms our approach to power. Alexander brings his new theory of social performance to bear on case studies that range from political to cultural power: Barack Obama's electoral campaign, American failure in the Iraqi war, the triumph of the Civil Rights Movement, terrorist violence on September 11th, public intellectuals, material icons, and social science itself. This path-breaking work by one of the world's leading social theorists will command a wide interdisciplinary readership. [232 Pages, Softcover]

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Performance and Power

Alexander, Jeffrey — 10 Oct 2011 08:17:54 +0200

A Companion to Poetic Genre

Martiny, Erik (ed.) — 10 Oct 2011 08:17:47 +0200

This eagerly awaited companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, amongst others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. [660 Pages, Hardcover]

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Reading the American Novel 1865-1914

Thompson, G. R. — 3 Oct 2011 08:18:09 +0200

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Leading literary scholar G. R. Thompson shares his insights into the fiction of one of the most pivotal periods in American literature, and each chapter offers both a lucid distillation of the key conditions of the historical and cultural contexts and a practical guide for studying literary works. [462 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Companion to American Literary Studies

Levander, Caroline F. / Levine, Robert S. (eds.) — 26 Sep 2011 08:17:32 +0200

A Companion to American Literary Studies provides state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field, examining the strengths and limitations of current scholarly and pedagogical practices and pointing to future developments and possibilities. The essays explore increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study and the unprecedented material changes to the field occasioned by emerging digital, new media, and visual technologies. With its emphasis on histories, practices, and futures, the volume is an essential resource for anyone interested in American literary studies. [592 Pages, Hardcover]

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Why I Love Barthes

Robbe-Grillet, Alain — 5 Sep 2011 08:18:16 +0200

The literary friendship between Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes lasted 25 years. Everything attests to their deep and mutual intellectual esteem: their private correspondence, their published texts, their conversations - notably in the famous dialogue which gives its name to this work. Robbe-Grillet freely said he had very few true friends but, next to the publisher Jérôme Lindon, he always cited the name of Roland Barthes. In 1980, he wrote his own 'I love, I don't love', published here for the first time, thinking about his friend. In 1985, he predicted: 'It is his work as a writer which will remain'. Ten years later, in 1995, he imagined him as an impatient, blithe novelist, merrily rewriting - 'euphorically, with inexhaustible happiness' - The Sorrows of Young Werther. This small collection of conversations and short texts by Robbe-Grillet is like the deferred echo of those that Roland Barthes dedicated to him in his Critical Essays in 1964. It offers fresh insight into the development of Robbe-Grillet's own work as well as that of Barthes, and is a unique testimony to one of the most important literary friendships of our time. [80 Pages, Softcover]

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Why I Love Barthes

Robbe-Grillet, Alain — 5 Sep 2011 08:18:14 +0200

A Companion to Comparative Literature

Behdad, Ali / Thomas, Dominic (eds.) — 5 Sep 2011 08:17:54 +0200

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literary studies. Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture, combining impeccable scholarship with thought-provoking insights. [540 Pages, Hardcover]

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Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries

Coggins, Richard / Han, Jin H. — 22 Aug 2011 08:18:06 +0200

Six Minor Prophets Through the Centuries is the work of highly respected biblical scholars, Richard Coggins and Jin H. Han. The volume explores the rich and complex reception history of the last six Minor Prophets in Jewish and Christian exegesis, theology, worship, and arts. * This text is the work of two highly respected biblical scholars * It explores the rich and complex reception history of the last six Minor Prophets in Jewish and Christian theology and exegesis [296 Pages, Hardcover]

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Victorian Poetry Now

Cunningham, Valentine — 18 Jul 2011 08:22:24 +0200

Poised on the brink of modernism and the twentieth century, the Victorian era was the most productive period of poetry there has ever been, in any language. This book is the definitive guide to the range of Victorian poets and poems, from the famous to the less well known. Esteemed critic Valentine Cunningham exhibits encyclopedic knowledge of the poetry produced in this period and, with dazzling close readings of a number of poems, cuts through the often complex Victorian poetic form to reveal the key themes and contexts of the poems and the passions that drove the men and women who wrote them. [552 Pages, Hardcover]

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Joining the Resistance

Gilligan, Carol — 27 Jun 2011 08:18:03 +0200

Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relations between them. It was 'the little book that started a revolution', and with more than 800,000 copies in print it has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written on gender and human development. In her new book Joining the Resistance Carol Gilligan reflects on the evolution of her thinking and shows how her key ideas were interwoven with her own life experiences. Her work began with the question of voice: who is speaking to whom, in what body, telling what stories about which relationships? By listening carefully she heard a voice that had been held in silence, and in the process realized the extent to which we - both women and men - had been telling false stories about ourselves. In her subsequent work Gilligan found that adolescent girls resisted pressures to disengage themselves from their honest voices, and by joining their resistance she opened the way for the development of a more humane way of thinking about personal and political relationships. For the central conviction of her work today - and the central thesis of this book - is that the requisites for love and the requisites for citizenship in a democratic society are one and the same. Both voice and the desire to live in relationships inherent in our human nature, together with the capacity to resist false authority. Combining autobiographical reflection with an analysis of key questions about gender and human development, this timely and highly readable book by one of America's greatest contemporary thinkers will appeal to a wide readership. [140 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Companion to Sensation Fiction

Gilbert, Pamela K. (ed.) — 27 Jun 2011 08:17:44 +0200

This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. * Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context * Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms * Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives * Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature * Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship [680 Pages, Hardcover]

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Culture in a Liquid Modern World

Bauman, Zygmunt — 15 Jun 2011 08:17:24 +0200

In its original formulation, 'culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating 'the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them. But in our contemporary liquid-modern world, culture has lost its missionary role and has become a means of seduction: it seeks no longer to enlighten the people but to seduce them. The function of culture today is not to satisfy existing needs but to create new ones, while simultaneously ensuring that existing needs remain permanently unfulfilled. Culture today likens itself to a giant department store where the shelves are overflowing with desirable goods that are changed on a daily basis - just long enough to stimulate desires whose gratification is perpetually postponed. In this new book, Zygmunt Bauman - one of the most brilliant and influential social thinkers of our time - retraces the peregrinations of the concept of culture and examines its fate in a world marked by the powerful new forces of globalization, migration and the intermingling of populations. He argues that Europe has a particularly important role to play in revitalizing our understanding of culture, precisely because Europe, with its great diversity of peoples, languages and histories, is the space where the Other is always one's neighbour and where each is constantly called upon to learn from everyone else. [144 Pages, Softcover]

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Culture in a Liquid Modern World

Bauman, Zygmunt — 15 Jun 2011 08:17:22 +0200

A Companion to James Joyce

Brown, Richard (ed.) — 31 May 2011 08:17:42 +0200

A Companion to James Joyce, now in paperback, offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. 25 specially-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field explore Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world. This book offers critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. [458 Pages, Softcover]

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Technology, Literature and Culture

Goody, Alex — 10 May 2011 08:18:53 +0200

Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist revolution in manufacturing to computers and the internet, technology has reconfigured our relationship to ourselves, each other, and to the tools and material we use. The book considers such key topics as the legacy of late-nineteenth century technology, the literary engagement with cinema and radio, the place of typewriters and computers in formal and thematic literary innovations, the representations of technology in spy fiction and the figures of the robot and the cyborg. It considers the importance of broadcast technology and the internet in literature and covers major literary movements including modernism, cold war writing, postmodernism and the emergence of new textualities at the end of the century. An insightful and wide-ranging study, Technology, Literature and Culture offers close readings of writers such as Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Ian Fleming, Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Jeanette Winterson and Shelley Jackson. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike in literary and cultural studies, and also introduces the topic to a general reader interested in the role of technology in the twentieth century. [200 Pages, Softcover]

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Technology, Literature and Culture

Goody, Alex — 10 May 2011 08:18:52 +0200

A Companion to Satire

Quintero, Ruben (ed.) — 19 Apr 2011 08:19:57 +0200

Now available in paperback, this collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. This volume tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore's satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11. [624 Pages, Softcover]

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After the Fall

Gray, Richard — 19 Apr 2011 08:19:54 +0200

After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. * Presents the first detailed interrogation of U.S. writing in a time of crisis * Develops a timely and provocative arguement about literature and trauma * Relates U.S. writing since 9/11 to crucial social and historical changes in the U.S. and elsewhere * Places U.S. writing in the context of the transformed position of the U.S. in a world characterized by political, economic, and military crisis; transnational drift; the resurgence of religious fundamentalism; and the apparent triumph of global capitalism [234 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

Witschi, Nicolas S. (ed.) — 19 Apr 2011 08:19:06 +0200

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents an in depth exploration of historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. A series of illuminating essays by literary and cultural scholars reveals the complexity of the many wests in our imagination and reality. Contributions explore such topics as women's frontier narratives, classic westerns of fiction and film, Native-American pride, cowboy poetry, and the L.A. and Seattle music scenes. The Companion offers a fully realized portrait of the depth and complexity of cultural expressions that continue to emerge from the American west. [572 Pages, Hardcover]

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After Globalization

Cazdyn, Eric / Szeman, Imre — 19 Apr 2011 08:18:57 +0200

After Globalization offers a new way of thinking about globalization -- both what it was and how it still operates as a social narrative. In lively and unflinching prose, the authors argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think an after to globalization. Examining the work of four popular thinkers (Thomas Friedman, Richard Florida, Paul Krugman and Naomi Klein) After Globalization re-animates a discussion and debate about globalization which seems to have been shelved since the recent financial crisis. [257 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Literary Theory Toolkit

Rapaport, Herman — 19 Apr 2011 08:18:50 +0200

Without a proper grasp of its relevant theories, approaches, and technical language, an effective analysis and interpretation of literature can be a daunting task. The Literary Theory Toolkit offers readers a rich compendium of key terms, concepts, and arguments necessary for the study of literature in a critical-theoretical context. Author Herman Rapaport provides a lucid overview of the field of literary study and presents readers with the intellectual tools necessary to construct an effective foundation for literary analysis and a richer appreciation of world literature. [308 Pages, Hardcover]

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The Literary Theory Toolkit

Rapaport, Herman — 19 Apr 2011 08:18:48 +0200

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry

Cheney, Patrick — 19 Apr 2011 08:18:47 +0200

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines analysis of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Cheney emphasises the poetry's accessibility by illuminating the dynamic and enduring nature of these works and their ability to influence readers' lives. A broad range of poetic genres are discussed, including lyric, narrative, and the dramatic, and includes poets such as Skelton, Wyatt, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. [348 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Short History of Early Modern England

Herman, Peter C. — 11 Apr 2011 08:18:46 +0200

A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature. The book explores key historical and literary events, from the Wars of the Roses to the publication of John Milton's Paradise Regained, and features in-depth explanations of key terms and concepts, such as absolutism and the Elizabethan Settlement. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is the perfect text to help students familiarize themselves with this remarkable period in English literary history. [280 Pages, Hardcover]

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A Short History of Early Modern England

Herman, Peter C. — 11 Apr 2011 08:18:43 +0200

A Companion to Charles Dickens

Paroissien, David (ed.) — 6 Apr 2011 08:19:05 +0200

Now in paperback, A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens's world. This work traces the development of Dickens's career as a journalist and novelist and includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens's fifteen novels. The Companion explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform. [534 Pages, Softcover]

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