Literary companions, book reviews and guides

This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

First published in 1940.

Dublin: A Writer''s City takes the reader, area by area, through one of the world''s great literary cities.

The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivid responses to each other, ranging from elegiac eulogy to burlesque and satire.

This title, first published in 1990, is a census of the manuscripts of William Butler Yeats.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world.

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time.

'Poetry,' wrote Tennyson 'is like shot-silk with many glancing colours.

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in the wake of World War Two, were ceded by Italy to Yugoslavia as part of its war reparations to that country.

References to weaving and binding are ubiquitous in Anglo-Saxon literature.

Melville's Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales-Herman Melville's only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime-and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville's stories.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.

Sir Isaac Newton's publications, and those he inspired, were among the most significant works published during the long eighteenth century in Britain.

First published in 1971.

Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole.

The late Harry Levin had an international reputation as the world's foremost comparatiste, and he was among the most knowledgeable Shakespeare scholars in the world.

Originally published in 1975, E.

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material.

First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand.

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J.

What would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously?

This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel.

Delve into Middle-earth, decipher the Dwarves' alphabet and more, with this indispensable and comprehensive guide to J.

In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night.

Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.

A Curious Peril examines the prose penned by modernist writer H.

Inclusive, cutting-edge essay collection by leading scholars on Victorian women poets and their diverse poetic forms and identities.

Leading specialists shed new light on key narrative and thematic features of the writings of Honoré de Balzac.

Don't miss Stephanie Butland's wonderful new novel THE SECOND CHANCE BOOK CLUB, out now!

Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance.

The letters in this book, first published in 1953, throw light on the literary scene at a time in which William Butler Yeats and Thomas Sturge Moore regularly corresponded.

For nearly half a century, James D.

Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan''s fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.

To understand the force Shelley has exerted in our literary and political culture, we must first dispel the image of him, promoted by the ruling class of nineteenth-century Britain, as the author of fragile and ineffectual lyrics.

First published in 1981.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

First published in 1975, this title provides an introduction to the study of the novel.

Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies.

First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 - a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work.

Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing.

First published in 1971.

This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot's essays written between 1846 and 1868.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad.