The Eighteenth-Century Literature Handbook
Editors: Gary Day and Bridget Keegan
Edition: First
Publisher: Continuum
Pages: 2
Price: £60.00 and £17.99
ISBN 9780826495228 and 5235
The impressive list of editors and contributors - leading scholars based in the UK and US - aim to provide an authoritative introduction to the literature and culture of the era via a comprehensive resource progressing from key information and guidance to the development of advanced critical skills. The collection considers authors, texts and contexts; offers guides to key critics, concepts and topics including issues of sexuality, gender and ethnicity; furnishes an overview of changes in the canon and critical landscape and directions of current research; and usefully details annotated further reading, including online resources.
Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England c. 1100-c. 1500
Editors: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al
Edition: First
Publisher: York Medieval Press/ Boydell & Brewer
Pages: 560
Price: £50.00
ISBN 97819031537
Wogan-Browne and her co-editors and contributors consider the enduring influence of francophone culture in England in the Middle Ages. A range of essays propose a new cultural history focusing on the "Anglo-Norman" presence and interactions of French speakers, writers, texts and documents, with the aim of restoring a multicultural and multivocal England in all its complexity.
A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance
Editors: Raluca L. Radulescu and Cory James Rushton
Edition: First
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Pages: 224
Price: £50.00
ISBN 9781843841920
One of the most important literary forms of the Middle Ages - popular romance - is challenging to define, because its subject matter runs the gamut from chivalric adventure to monstrous metamorphoses and saints' lives. Contributors aim to offer a thorough definition of the genre and provide context, definitions and explanations. Topics examined include genre and classification, ethnicity, gender, orality and performance, metre and form, reception and printing culture.
British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology
Editors: Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia
Edition: First
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages: 960
Price: £41.50 and £21.00
ISBN 97808018983 and 76
This collection of more than 300 poems by 80 women poets of the era, both canonical and little-known and many long out of print, demonstrates the diversity of poetry produced during this time. The editors group the works in three broad categories: by genre, by theme and by their focus on women's experience as writers.
Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
Editors: Heather Montgomery and Nicola J. Watson
Edition: First
Publisher: Open University Press/Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 424
Price: £22.99
ISBN 97802302149
Aiming to offer students excellent critical material on a number of key classic and contemporary children's books, this collection provides case studies of literature across genres and ages, with detailed introductory material and essays by leading scholars. Works examined include Little Women, Peter Pan, Swallows and Amazons, Tom's Midnight Garden and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present
Editors: David Damrosch, Natalie Melas and Mbongiseni Buthelezi
Edition: First
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 458
Price: £44.95 and £20.95
ISBN 9780691132853 and 2846
An anthology of classic essays and significant recent work on the missions and methods of the rapidly evolving discipline of comparative literary studies, this sourcebook presents 32 pieces by authors ranging from Madame de Stael and Friedrich Nietzsche to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Franco Moretti. Manifestos and counter-arguments, essays in definition and debates on method aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the field via the work of some of its most important scholars.
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative
Author: Mieke Bal
Edition: Third revised
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Pages: 256
Price: £16.95
ISBN 9780802096319
First published in English in 1985, this text's importance lies in its ability to offer a comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative text. Bal offers a systematic account of narrative techniques and methods, their transmission and reception. The updated third edition includes analysis of film narratives and new sections treating a number of narratologically challenging modernist texts.
Why Poetry Matters
Author: Jay Parini
Edition: First
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages: 224
Price: £9.99
ISBN 9780300151466
In this meditation, Parini, a writer and academic, acknowledges that poetry is unimportant to the majority of people in today's world, but argues that this most central art of Western civilisation still has the power to open minds and transform lives. Considering defences of poetry made by thinkers and practitioners from Aristotle and Longinus to Wordsworth and Shelley to T.S. Eliot and Robert Frost, he examines the poetic voice and metaphor and makes his case with passion and clarity.
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