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New Accents

About the Book Series

The New Accents series was launched over 25 years ago, and changed the face of literary studies. It brought the latest in literary theory to students and academics and paved the way for undergraduate teaching on essential new topics and approaches. The New Accents volumes are now firmly established as classic texts and are still widely used by students and teachers. To celebrate this groundbreaking series we are relaunching some of the best selling titles. Each book includes a new chapter and an updated bibliography and Terence Hawkes has written a new Series Editor's preface.

40 Series Titles


Making a Difference Feminist Literary Criticism

Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism

1st Edition

Edited By Gayle Green, Coppélia Kahn
November 21, 1985

Feminist scholarship employs gender as a fundamental organizing category of human experience, holding two related premises: men and women have different perceptions or experiences in the same contexts, the male perspective having been dominant in fields of knowledge; and that gender is not a ...

Metafiction The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

1st Edition

By Patricia Waugh
November 16, 1984

Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to ...

Fantasy The Literature of Subversion

Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion

1st Edition

By Dr Rosemary Jackson
March 10, 1981

This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1973). Dr Jackson...

Subculture The Meaning of Style

Subculture: The Meaning of Style

1st Edition

By Dick Hebdige
March 10, 1981

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to ...

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