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

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

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830 Pro…

A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writer…

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland…

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 …

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

Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America’s understanding of itself and its his…

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis…

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

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

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…

This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis. …

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to …

Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was prac…

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

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…

The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of a…

This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies.…

This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of co…

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

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

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

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender…

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day …

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

A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their mode…

The Crime Fiction Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the origins, development, and cultural significance of the crime fiction genre, fo…

Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has rep…

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and…

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…

This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and wo…

This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and endin…

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 his…

A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that…

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…

This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. * Highlights …

The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and future trajectory of English studies…

Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1…

This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic wo…

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

A Companion to Medieval Poetry presents a series of original essays from leading literary scholars that explore English poetry from the Anglo-Saxon pe…

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

This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers d…

1611: Authority, Gender, and the Word in Early Modern England explores issues of authority, gender, and language within and across the variety of lite…