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Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical su…

With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time peri…

This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient h…

This book is a guide to the extraordinarily diverse literature of the Hellenistic period. A guide to the literature of the Hellenistic age, from the d…

This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlig…

A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Tells the story…

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

A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of t…

Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil’s great epic, suggesti…

This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it. Places the po…

This anthology presents a series of texts in which major twentieth-century thinkers engage in dialogue with their predecessors. Presents a series of t…

The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive textbook, providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills…

This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Broadens the …

Adventures in Realism offers an accessible introduction to realism as it has evolved since the 19th century. Though focused on literature and literary…

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

This is the first book systematically to examine Wolfgang Petersen’s epic film Troy from different archaeological, literary, cultural, and cinematic p…

This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions. A helpful guidebook for an…

In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabaté addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it …

In this companion, international scholars provide a comprehensive overview that reflects the most recent trends in Catullan studies. Explores the work…

Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Br…

A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective …

Whither Quo Vadis? offers an engaging account of how the Roman world and its history are represented in film and the way in which the different adapta…

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and …

This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evol…

The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman …

This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and extensive works. This Dictionary offers points of entry into Derrida’s complex and e…

Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mys…

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and …

A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, studen…

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell offers readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English. Brings together original …

The myths and legends in this book have been selected both for their excellence as stories and because they illustrate the distinctive nature of Nativ…

Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a…

This major addition to Blackwell’s Companions to the Ancient World series covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, …

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional dis…

Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insi…

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

The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various metho…

Big Screen Rome is the first systematic survey of the most important and popular films from the past half century that reconstruct the image of Roman …

Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Com…

This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept acr…

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 149…

This accessible one-volume survey of the literature of Greece and Rome covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. High…

From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colour…

This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the ‘high’ Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and …

Written by one of the world’s leading literary theorists, this book provides a wide-ranging, accessible and humorous introduction to the English novel…