The Companion combines a broad grounding in the essential texts and contexts of the modernist movement with the unique insights of scholars whose careers have been devoted to the study of modernism.

• An essential resource for students and teachers of modernist literature and culture
• Broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage
• Includes more than 60 contributions from some of the most distinguished modernist scholars on both sides of the Atlantic
• Brings together entries on elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic...

This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies.

• Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars.
  
• Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period.
  
• Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings.
  
• Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxon studies

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

• Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing
  
• Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
  
• Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study
  This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time.

• Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama
  
• Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age.

• Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to.
  
• Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period.
  
• Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays.
  
• Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its...

A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350-c.1500 challenges readers to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries.

A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture.

• Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries.
• Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature.
• Stresses the importance of constructing contexts for reading literature.
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This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.

• Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
  
• Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
  
• Explores the relationships between work by different poets
  
• Recalls attention to a...

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South.

• Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region
  
• Combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues
  
• Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those -...

This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages.

• Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day
  
• Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers
  
• Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres
  
• Challenges the idea that...