By: Charlotte Sussman (Duke University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625157, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625140, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011

Description: 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 hi...

By: Antonio Forcellino
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640068, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640051, Pub Date US Sep 2009, Pub Date RoW Jul 2009, Pub Date Aus Jul 2009

Description: This major new biography recounts the extraordinary life of one of the most creative figures in Western culture, weaving together the multiple thread...

By: Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639543, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637280, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has re...

By: Katie Normington (University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636047, Pub Date US May 2009, Pub Date RoW Apr 2009, Pub Date Aus Apr 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654867, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Medieval English Drama provides a fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. The book places partic...

By: Suman Gupta
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640242, Pub Date US Dec 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2008, Pub Date Aus Nov 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640235, Pub Date US Dec 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2008, Pub Date Aus Nov 2008

Description: This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing...

By: Christopher Cannon (Fellow of Girton College and University Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of English, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624426, Pub Date US Apr 2008, Pub Date RoW Feb 2008, Pub Date Aus Feb 2008
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654768, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argu...

By: Julie Sanders (School of English and Philosophy, Keele University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632971, Pub Date US Jul 2007, Pub Date RoW Nov 2007, Pub Date Aus Nov 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632964, Pub Date US May 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007

Description: This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards. Written...

By: Sandra Clark (Birkbeck College)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633114, Pub Date US Nov 2007, Pub Date RoW Sep 2007, Pub Date Aus Sep 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633107, Pub Date US Nov 2007, Pub Date RoW Sep 2007, Pub Date Aus Sep 2007

Description: Renaissance Drama provides a comprehensive and engaging new account of one of the richest periods of theatre history: the drama of early modern Engla...

By: Diane Watt (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632568, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632551, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007

Description: Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to...

By: Thomas Cartelli (Muhlenberg College) and Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633930, Pub Date US Jan 2007, Pub Date RoW Oct 2006, Pub Date Aus Oct 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633923, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006

Description: The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in ‘staging’ Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen int...

By: Colin Bulman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636887, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Oct 2006, Pub Date Aus Oct 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636870, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Oct 2006, Pub Date Aus Oct 2006

Description: All writers are familiar with terms like plot, suspense, conflict and character. They may be less familiar with intertextuality, anachrony, and fabul...

By: Jason Scott-Warren (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745627526, Pub Date US Oct 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745627519, Pub Date US Oct 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005

Description: When we engage with the writings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, we encounter a culture radically unfamiliar to us at the start of the twenty-...

By: Charles J. Rzepka (Boston University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629421, Pub Date US Sep 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629414, Pub Date US Sep 2005, Pub Date RoW Aug 2005, Pub Date Aus Aug 2005

Description: Detective Fiction is a clear and compelling look at some of the best known, yet least-understood, characters and texts of the modern day. Charles J. ...

By: Tim Armstrong (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629834, Pub Date US Jun 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629827, Pub Date US Jun 2005, Pub Date RoW Apr 2005, Pub Date Aus Apr 2005

Description: The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a g...

By: Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628936, Pub Date US May 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628929, Pub Date US May 2005, Pub Date RoW Mar 2005, Pub Date Aus Mar 2005

Description: In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its...

By: Bernard-Henri Levy (Counseil de Surveillance of La Sept-Arte)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630090, Pub Date US Sep 2003, Pub Date RoW Jul 2003, Pub Date Aus Jul 2003

Description: ‘A whole man, made of all men, worth all of them, and any one of them worth him.’ This was how Jean-Paul Sartre characterized himself at ...

Edited by: Richard Lane (South Bank University), Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge) and Philip Tew (University College Northampton)
By: Richard Lane (South Bank University), Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge) and Philip Tew (University College Northampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628677, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628660, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002

Description: This important new book provides a comprehensive introduction to British fiction from 1979 to the present. The volume outlines the main developments ...

By: Geoff Ward
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626222, Pub Date US Jun 2002, Pub Date RoW Apr 2002, Pub Date Aus Apr 2002

Description: In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literar...

Edited by: Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge)
By: Rod Mengham (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619576, Pub Date US Aug 1999, Pub Date RoW May 1999, Pub Date Aus May 1999

Description: This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to fiction in the English-speaking world during the period from 1970 to the present day. During thi...

By: Susan Sellers (University of St Andrews)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745612553, Pub Date US Apr 1996, Pub Date RoW Feb 1996, Pub Date Aus Feb 1996

Description: This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact ...