Literature

In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts. Now in its third edition, An Introduction to Literary Studies has been updated to include: a wider range of textual examples from world literature, additional references to contemporary cinema, a section on comparative literature, an extended survey of literary periods and genres, and much more. Read more here.

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"This splendid book will be indispensable for all students of the Gothic." Sue Zlosnik, Professor of Gothic Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field, while also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as movie, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories, Gothic Spaces, Gothic Readers and Writers, Gothic Spectacle and Contemporary Impulses. Read a sample of the introduction.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61) was the foremost female poet of her day, to the extent that in 1850 she was mooted as a serious candidate for the Poet Laureate. With the publication in 2010 of a definitive five-volume edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry—the first full scholarly edition in a hundred years—this long-awaited collection on Barrett Browning’s work from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Heritage series is both timely and desirable. After languishing for most of the twentieth century, critical study of Barrett has flourished over the past thirty years, focusing largely on her importance as both a female—and a political—poet.

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In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides:

• Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors
• Examination of the cultural and literary impact of crucial historical, social, political and cultural events
• Discussion of Britain’s imperial status in the century and the diversification of the nation through Black and Asian British Literature

Annie Martirosyan has given Ewan Fernie's The Demonic a fantastic review for the Huffington Post. Read the full review here

If you missed Ewan's recent talk on Teaching Shakespeare And The Big Stuff at the Hay Festival you can now listen to it online.

Congratulations to our author, Professor Caroline Franklin, who has won the Elma Dangerfield Prize, for her book The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism. This prize aims to identify and reward scholarship for publication of new and original work related to the life, works and times of poet, the 6th Lord George Gordon Noel Byron.

The Female Romantics has also recently been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. Click here to read the full review.