The Concise Companion to Feminist Theory introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the last 35 years.

• Introduces readers to the broad scope of feminist theory over the past 35 years.
  
• Guides students along the cutting edge of current feminist theory.
  
• Suitable for students and scholars of all fields touched by feminist thought.
  
• Covers an exceptionally broad range of disciplines, discourses and feminist positions.
  
• Organised around concepts rather than schools of feminism.
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This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.

• Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.
  
• Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.
  
• Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.
  
• Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social...

This volume presents fresh approaches to classic Victorian fiction from 1830-1900.

• Opens up for the reader the cultural world in which the Victorian novel was written and read.
  
• Crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.
  
• Provides fresh perspectives on how Victorian fiction relates to different contexts, such as class, sexuality, empire, psychology, law and biology.

This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen.

• Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical and filmic approaches.
  
• Organised around themes, such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization and history.
  
• Offers readers a variety of accessible routes into the subject of Shakespeare on screen.
  
• Also enables readers to explore...

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly.

• Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.
  
• Written by prominent specialists in the field.
  
• Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.
  
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This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms.

• Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more.
  
• Shows how different genres and approaches opened up creative possibilities and interacted in the postwar period.
  
• Portrays the postwar United...