Provides students and readers with an introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 through a collection of the perspectives on British fiction. This book offers comprehensive coverage of a range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the British writing.

The most comprehensive anthology of literary theory and criticism, updated and with a global approach.

Beowulf & Other Stories was first conceived in the belief that the study of Old English - and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman - can be a genuine delight, covering a period as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature.

The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts.

Focusing on the work of British and Irish authors, this book considers changes in literary forms, styles and genres, as well as in critical discourses. It examines literary movements such as Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism and Decadence. It discusses the impact of gender studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and book history.

Includes examples of poetry, interviews of poets, and practical exercises and discussion of poetry writing as a method. This book helps students to consider the importance of form and function in poetry for qualitative methods. It answers the question of how to teach the creation and evaluation of poetry.

A study of the response of some of France and Britain's leading writers to the events of the First World War. Brooke, Wells, Shaw, Kipling, Lawrence, Owen and Rosenberg are set alongside Jaure, Barres, Maurras, Peguy, Psichari and Rolland, as case studies of the war's impact on Anglo-French letters.

Ralph Hanna charts the generic and linguistic features particular to London writing.

Chronicles Twain's inner and outer life through a series of daily dictations that go wherever his fancy leads. This book deals with his life and work.

Emily Steiner describes the rich intersections between legal documents and English literature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

This book brings together great writing by figures from South Asia who give voice to the experience of the exile and the emigrant. The list of contributors also includes Hanif Kureishi, Rohinton Mistry, Meera Syal, and others.

This title reaches back to Boccaccio and Cervantes to find the short story's roots, then focuses on the 19th century, when the short story began in what we recognize as its modern form. It then moves on to the 20th century discussing important writers identifying important trends an movements.

In this volume, Joseph Coulombe argues that Native American writers use diverse narrative strategies to engage with readers and are 'writing for connection' with both Native and non-Native audiences.

Hadley examines how James disentangles himself from the moralizing frame through which English-language novels in the nineteenth century had imagined sexual passion. She shows how he pursues his ambitious enterprise to represent the privileges and the pains of turn-of-the-century leisure-class society.

The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the African diaspora, this study explores connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. Thomas reveals a dialogue between two diverse cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression.

Redefining Elizabethan Literature explores one of the most remarkable decades in English literary history, the 1590s, focusing on the changing perceptions of the aesthetic as an autonomous sphere of activity. Combining theoretical perspectives with close textual readings, Brown sheds light on the central preoccupations of Elizabethan literary culture.

An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world.

The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000 is a collection of the most influential writings on the theory of the novel from the twentieth century. * Traces the rise of novel theory and the extension of its influence into other disciplines, especially social, cultural and political theory.

This book examines science fiction's theoretical and ontological backgrounds and how science fiction applies to the future of tourism. Focusing on disruption, sustainability and technology, it brings a new theoretical paradigm to the study of tourism in a post COVID-19 world and can be used to explore, frame and even form the future of tourism.

A vivid, visual, history of Mary Shelley's famous book, which explains its enduring popularity in the theatre, the cinema, and to the general public.

An edition of the letters of the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985) to recipients including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Harriet Monroe, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ted Hughes, George Oppen, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Davie and Tom Pickard.