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The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century’s events, along with an exploration of the ways the…

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading te…

A comprehensive introduction to Old English, combining simple, clear philology with the best literary works to provide a compelling and accessible beg…

The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and geneal…

A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin…

Through a series of 34 essays by leading and emerging scholars, A Companion to Romantic Poetry reveals the rich diversity of Romantic poetry and shows…

A Future for Criticism considers why fiction gives so much pleasure, and the neglect of this issue in contemporary criticism. Offers a brief, lively, …

A Companion to Roman Love Elegy is the first comprehensive work dedicated solely to the study of love elegy. The genre is explored through 33 original…

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of t…

A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from…

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they wer…

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…

Provides a detailed map of contemporary critical theory in Renaissance and Early Modern English literary studies beyond Shakespeare A Handbook of Engl…

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey avail…

This student-friendly handbook provides an engaging overview of American fiction over the twentieth century, with entries on the important historical …

The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume. Presents a study of …

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 Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic offers a diversity of perspectives to explore how differing approaches and methodologies can cont…

A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical rece…

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged w…

Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovi…

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

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empir…

A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, enga…

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W. Said through the cr…

Catullus is one of the liveliest and most appealing Roman poets. His emotion, charm, and apparent spontaneity resonate with readers as strongly today …

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…

Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship …

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Scienc…

Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon l…

In Phenomenal Shakespeare, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeare’s poems and plays…

This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively fr…

This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature – from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of …

A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers wi…

Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton’s g…

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

A scholarly review of American world literature from early times to the postmodernist era American World Literature: An Introduction explores how the …

This concise companion examines contexts that are essential to understanding and interpreting writing in English produced in the period between approx…

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore …

Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducin…

Exploring Greek Myth offers an extensive discussion of variant forms of myths and lesser-known stories, including important local myths and local vers…

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the deve…

Through original essays from a distinguished team of international scholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardy provides a unique, one-…

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as «satiric successors»; detailed individual contributions …