Longman Critical Readers
Early Women Writers: 1600 - 1720
1st Edition
By Anita Pacheco
October 24, 1997
The last twenty years have witnessed the rediscovery of a large number of women writers of the early modern period. This process of recovery has had a major impact on early modern studies for, by beginning to restore women to the history of the period, it provides new insight into the formative ...
Postcolonial Criticism
1st Edition
By Bart Moore-Gilbert, Gareth Stanton, Willy Maley
October 01, 1997
Post-colonial theory is a relatively new area in critical contemporary studies, having its foundations more Postcolonial Criticism brings together some of the most important critical writings in the field, and aims to present a clear overview of, and introduction to, one of the most exciting and ...
Narratology: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Susana Onega, Jose Angel Garcia Landa
September 06, 1996
This text provides an excellent introduction and overview of Narratology, a rapidly growing field in the humanities. Literary narratologists have provided many key concepts and analytical tools which are widely used in the interdisciplinary analysis of such narrative features as plot, point of view...
Edmund Spenser
1st Edition
By Andrew Hadfield
August 20, 1996
This collection represents some of the best recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser, a major Renaissance English poet. The essays cover the whole of Spensers work, from early literary experiments such as The Shepeardes Calendar, to his unfinished crowning work,The Fairie Queene. The introduction ...
Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions
1st Edition
By Lyn Pykett
July 05, 1996
The fin de siècle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. The essays in this volume form a valuable introduction to fin de siècle cultural studies and provide a commentary ...
Charles Dickens
1st Edition
By Professor Steven Connor
June 21, 1996
Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the ...
Tennyson
1st Edition
By Rebecca Stott
June 21, 1996
Alternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new work on Tennyson, effectively linking feminist and gender studies with deconstructive, psychoanalytic...
Pope
1st Edition
By Brean S. Hammond
April 03, 1996
This collection of essays represents some of the best critical thinking on Pope in recent years. Professor Hammond examines the main issues in the debate, in particular why Pope's writing has been so resistant to modern methodologies, such as deconstruction.The essays focus on particular poems or ...
Metafiction
1st Edition
By Mark Currie
July 13, 1995
Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of ...
Readers and Reading
1st Edition
By Andrew Bennett
April 17, 1995
Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the author condition the response of the reader, and how much does the reader create the meaning of a text? Dr ...
Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
1st Edition
By Maud Ellmann
November 21, 1994
This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how ...
Ideology
1st Edition
By Terry Eagleton
October 03, 1994
This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings begin with ...