Routledge Guides to Literature
About the Book Series
Routledge Guides to Literature are clear introductions to authors and texts most frequently studied by undergraduate students of literature. Each book explores texts, contexts and criticism, highlighting the critical views and contextual factors that students must consider in advanced studies of literary works.
Each guide presents a variety of approaches and interpretations, encouraging readers to think critically about 'standard' views and to make independent readings of literary texts. Alongside general guides to texts and authors, the series includes 'sourcebooks', which incorporate extracts from key contextual and critical materials as well as annotated passages from the primary text.
Some books in this series were originally published in the Routledge Literary Sourcebook series, edited by Duncan Wu, or the Complete Critical Guide to English Literature series, edited by Richard Bradford and Jan Jedrzjewski.
Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Juliet John
January 13, 2006
Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is one of the most significant novels of the Victorian era and having been adapted for both stage and screen, retains its impact in the cultural consciousness of many nations. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Dickens’ novel includes: extensive ...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Morrison
July 12, 2005
Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticism of the novel from the nineteenth century to the present, including material on the 1995 film adaptation. Extensive introductory comment and annotation ...
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott McEathron
July 12, 2005
This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering: a contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poems an overview of the book's early reception and recent critical fortunes, as well as a wide range of ...
Jane Austen
1st Edition
By Robert P. Irvine
May 19, 2005
Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many ...
John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Margaret Kean
December 30, 2004
John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness. Designed for ...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine J. Golden
October 28, 2004
In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed both as a feminist classic and a key text in...
Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By Ezra Greenspan, Walt Whitman
October 28, 2004
This sourcebook includes the full text of Song of Myself. Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an ...
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet Beer, Elizabeth Nolan
July 06, 2004
Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.This sourcebook combines accessible commentary with reprinted documents to ...
Charles Dickens's Bleak House: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Janice M. Allan
July 02, 2004
With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice Allan: introduces the contextual issues that most directly influenced Dickens's writing and reprints relevant source ...
Jane Austen's Emma: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Paula Byrne
July 02, 2004
Emma is widely regarded as Jane Austen's most perfectly constructed novel. At once a comedy of misunderstanding, a razor-sharp analysis of the English class-system, a classic tale of moral growth, and a romance that combines sense with sensibility, it has appealed to readers of every generation and...
The Poems of W.B. Yeats: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael O'Neill
February 23, 2004
Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems. Considering Yeats's early, dreamily evocative poems ...
Charles Dickens's David Copperfield: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard J. Dunn
February 20, 2004
This guidebook offers the ideal introduction to one of the most enduringly popular works of the nineteenth century. Richard J. Dunn first places David Copperfield in its social, biographical and literary contexts, touching upon such fascinating issues as autobiography and Victorian social ...