Literature: history and criticism

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is one of the greatest poets in European literature, comparable to the likes of likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Keats and Wordsworth.

The Routledge Anthology of Climate Fiction brings together key works from the Bible to the twentieth century, in an accessible resource for students and teachers alike.

This book is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, 'What is an author?

Literature has for thousands of years served as a space in which people have negotiated the ethics of daily life.

This book delves into Benjamin Franklin's English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation of the potentiality of English.

The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume.

In this study, the engaging art created by children's author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children's literature.

The wood engravers' self-portrait tells the story of the image-making firm Dalziel Brothers, investigating and interpreting a unique archive from the British Museum.

This book explores the intimate relationship between literature and class in England (and later Britain) from the Peasants' Revolt at the end of the fourteenth century to the impact of the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth.

Critical theory and dystopia offers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory.

This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.

This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.

This book explores first-hand Dunhuang manuscripts from a period of over 700 years, from 220 to 960, and as such makes a major contribution to passing on and promoting ancient Chinese culture.

This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism.

PROSE Awards Category WinnerMedia and Cultural Studies, 2025 Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years.

How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare's plays?

Philology cross-examines Freud in this sustained critique of psychoanalysis and its foundational notion of the slip.

Do you have something that someone special once gave you that seems to offer you strength and protection when you need it the most?

Look what the cat dragged in from the Middle Ages - a curious collection of the most wonky, wide-eyed and weirdly drawn cats ever to grace the margins of history.

This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the spy in Europe between 1815 and 1914.

First published in 1988.