Reading Literature Today
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Robert J. Meyer-Lee
June 03, 2025
Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works’ deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day. Each chapter connects ...
Reading Oscar Wilde: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Michael Patrick Gillespie
March 11, 2025
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde’s writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and the background from which the canon has emerged. This ready-at-hand compendium details the scholarly ...
Reading John Milton: An Introduction
1st Edition
By David Currell
September 10, 2024
Reading John Milton is a guide to Milton’s writings written for students, teachers, and readers everywhere seeking to approach this major figure in English and world literature. Milton’s works range from the monumental epic Paradise Lost to moving personal sonnets, from the tragic grandeur of ...
Reading James Joyce: An Introduction
1st Edition
By A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Patrick Gillespie
March 24, 2023
Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce’s writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce’s works and the background from which they emerged. Meticulously organized, this ...