Literature

This second, revised and fully updated edition of the successful guidebook to narrative covers a range of narrative forms and their historical development from early oral and literate forms through to contemporary digital media, encompassing Hellenic and Hebraic foundations, the rise of the novel, realist representations, narratives of imperialism, modernism, cinema, postmodernism and new technologies. A final chapter reviews the way that narrative theory in the last decade has re-orientated definitions of narrative. Read more...

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Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best develop and apply their knowledge. Designed for use in a range of literature courses, it begins by outlining the history of literary movements, enabling students to contextualise a given work within its cultural and historical movement. Read more...

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This book brings to light the significance of bodily pain for the literature, philosophy, and science of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Davies brings Romantic studies in conversation with the recent work in medical anthropology that offers a fresh understanding of the pain of the body. Extending ongoing debates about literature and medicine in the Romantic era, he argues that for a number of Romantic-period writers, pain became central to ethical thinking about the singularity or seperateness of individual people. Read more...

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The 2014 Literature catalog is filled with the latest outstanding books from Routledge, from textbooks and readers to handbooks, reference works and our broad range of high quality of research monographs. This diverse range represents our continued commitment to bring you the best in research and teaching resources. Click here to view 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.

Professor Ewan Fernie is author of The Demonic, and is chairman of Shakespeare studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He has previously been a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, Royal Holloway and was selected in 2004 by Gary Taylor and the Hudson Strode Program of the University of Alabama as ‘one of the six most brilliant scholars of Renaissance drama in the world under 40’.

Ewan Fernie, will appear at the Hay Festival on 28th May 2013. He will be examining scenes from Othello, Hamlet, The Tempest and Measure For Measure and discussing how to teach Shakespeare with imagination and intensity.

Visit the Hay Festival website to book your place today.