Literary Studies: General

Introducing Comparative Literature is a comprehensive guide to the field offering clear, concise information alongside useful analysis and examples...

The essays in this collection address the relationship between children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young people. The collectio...

In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000. The selection sketches the t...

Providing an up-to-date and accessible overview of the essentials of narrative theory, Narrative: The Basics guides the reader through the major ap...

Modernism and Theory boldly asks what – if any – role theory has to play in the new modernist studies. Separated into three sections, each with a c...

Loyalty is a highly charged and important issue, often evoking strong feelings and actions. What is loyalty? Is loyalty compatible with impartialit...

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear ha...

Reengaging the Prospects of Rhetoric reanimates the debate over the function and scope of rhetoric. Providing a contemporary response to the volume...

Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in ...

Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. Drunks...

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman wr...

Clearly focussed on the needs of students, Robert Eaglestone and Jonathan Beecher Field have revised the best-selling Doing English specifically fo...

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literatur...

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and p...

What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? ...

Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. ...

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading tha...

This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturati...

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare...

This book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by think...

‘Contemporary Literature’ is among the most popular areas of literary study but it can be a difficult one to define. This book equips readers with ...

Contains writings about John Donne from 1873 to 1923, including Henry Morley, Edmund Gosse, W.F. Collier, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Eliot Norton, He...

World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemporary ideas of ‘national lit...

This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism an...