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With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century. Written in a clear …

This essential Middle English textbook, now in its third edition, introduces students to the wide range of literature written in England between 1150 …

Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative whi…

This book introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric. …

The two plays presented in full in this volume – Wycherley's The Country Wife and Congreve's The Way of the World – illustrate the evolution of Restor…

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A groun…

This book introduces and discusses the works of leading feminist postcolonialist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, by exploring the key concepts and themes …

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

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century…

Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary sch…

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

This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily ava…

In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. Introduces student…

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture…

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the cou…

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inabilit…

A comprehensive guide to Dante’s life and literature, with an emphasis on his Commedia. This text looks at the influences that shaped Dante’s writing,…

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and …

From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the …

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and c…

Regarded by many as the equal of Shakespeare in poetic imagination and expression, Milton was also a prolific writer of prose, applying his potent gen…

This book explores the significance of Julius Caesar to different periods, societies and people from the 50s BC through to the twenty-first century. T…

How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch o…

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.…

A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- …

Return to the wizarding world and discover how director David Yates and producer David Heyman brought J.K. Rowling’s all-new adventure, the Academy Aw…

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adap…

This book introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd’n…

This reader-friendly introduction makes Joyce asscessible by combining the excitement of reading his words with the excitement of interpreting them.

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900. Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian n…

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chrono…

This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their c…

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic,…

The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inc…

A History of Seventeenth-Century Literature outlines significant developments in the English literary tradition between the years 1603 and 1690. An en…

A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current r…

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscur…

This volume distils into two hundred pages some of the most influential poetry of the Victorian period. Distils into one volume the key poems of the V…

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare critic…

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

The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose care…

This broad-ranging Companion offers readers a thorough grounding in both the background and the substance of eighteenth-century poetry in all its rich…

Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find the traditional masterpieces too dis…