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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…

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

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. …

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

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 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…

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

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

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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 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…