Literature: History & Criticism

By examining the book, the play and the film, Choose Life, Choose Leith both critically analyses the Trainspotting phenomenon in its various forms,...

Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional c...

Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England. The book's publication in 18...

Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, AD 55. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, agents of the Roman Empire receive information about...

This title provides clear and useful discussions of the main areas of literary, critical and cultural theory. It includes Key Concepts in Literary ...

This is a polemical attack on how recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information. How is it that biographies of Shakespear...

A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvreDeploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and ...

This is a study on the premise that expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it. Beginnin...

This is the new edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literature. This revised edition includes...