The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
By creating an 'idea of America,' popular New World travel writing offered an understanding of America through British eyes, and a lens through which ..
Argues that any story, whether a Bette Davis film or a Jane Austen novel, must be related to larger cultural networks. Calls for a critical practice t..
David Lindley re-examines the murder trials of Frances Howard and the historical representations of her as `wife, a witch, a murderess and a whore', c..
A stunning collection of first-class essays examining the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of co..
Some of today's foremost Renaissance scholars look afresh at the remarkable products of the first age of print and explore how these anticipated many ..
Working through the issue of representation, in art forms from fiction to photography, Linda Hutcheon sets out postmodernism's highly political challe..
Formalism and Marxism examines the relationship between the work of the Russian Formalists and that of such contemporary Marxist critics as Macherey, ..
Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Frankens..
Bringing together eminent historicist and formalist critics, this volume examines how Renaissance texts were read, how they were put to use and why th..
A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-te..
An indispensable introduction to the study of autobiography as well as a historical overview of autobiographical writing from St Augustine to the pres..
Medievalisms surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the Mediev..