Longman Critical Readers
Shakespeare: The Last Plays
1st Edition
By Kiernan Ryan
January 18, 1999
This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations of these plays. Kiernan Ryan brings together the most important recent essays on Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, the greatest of the `last ...
Dante
1st Edition
By Jeremy Tambling
December 02, 1998
Dante's work has fascinated readers for seven hundred years and has provided key reference points for writing as diverse as that of Chaucer, the Renaissance poets, the English Romantics, Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites, American writers from Melville through to Eliot and Pound, Anglo-Irish ...
T. S. Eliot
1st Edition
By Harriet Davidson
November 04, 1998
One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In this volume, Harriet Davidson collects key recent essays by such internationally renowned critics as Terry Eagleton, ...
Renaissance Poetry
1st Edition
By Cristina Malcomson
October 27, 1998
This book, the first single volume to collate essays about sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry, explores the remarkable changes that have occurred in the interpretation of English Renaissance poetry in the last twenty years. In the introduction Cristina Malcolmson argues that recent ...
English Novel, Vol II, The: Smollett to Austen
1st Edition
By Richard W.F. Kroll
October 22, 1998
The English Novel, Volume II: Smollett to Austen collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and ...
English Novel, Vol I, The: 1700 to Fielding
1st Edition
By Richard W.F. Kroll
October 13, 1998
The English Novel, Volume I:1700 to Fielding collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and important ...
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Chaucer, Steve Ellis
October 02, 1998
This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are ...
Byron
1st Edition
By Jane Stabler
September 30, 1998
Often seen as the exception to generalisations about Romanticism, Byron's poetry - and its intricate relationship with a brilliant, scandalous life - has remained a source of controversy throughout the twentieth century. This book brings together recent work on Byron by leading British and American...
Contemporary American Women Writers: Gender, Class, Ethnicity
1st Edition
By Lois Parkinson Zamora
September 01, 1998
This collection brings together critical essays that examine questions of identity and community in the fiction of contemporary American women writers among them Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisnernos. The essays consider how identities and societies are dramatized in particular works of ...
William Blake
1st Edition
By JOHN Lucas
May 15, 1998
The collection of essays presented in this volume represents some of the best recent critical work on William Blake as poet, prophet, visual artist, and social and political critic of his time.The critical range that is represented includes examples of Marxist, New Historicist, Feminist and ...
Joseph Conrad
1st Edition
By Andrew Michael Roberts
April 09, 1998
Joseph Conrad is a key figure in modernist fiction, whose innovative work engages with many of the crucial philosophical, moral and political concerns of the twentieth century. This collection of major critical readings of his work is arranged according to the issues which each critic addresses, ...
Tragedy
1st Edition
By John Drakakis, Naomi Conn Liebler
April 09, 1998
This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and fifty years. The foundations of much ...