This comprehensive collection of the major critical views of Chaucer's works over time engages students with the entire critical history.

• Introduces students to the critical discourse on Chaucer's works from a historical perspective.
  
• Encourages students to make links between past and present criticism.
  
• Foregrounds those modern approaches that are genuinely productive.
  
• Avoids a formulaic approach through lively editorial commentary and judicious selection of texts.

This comprehensive collection of the major critical views of Chaucer's works over time engages students with the entire critical history.

• Introduces students to the critical discourse on Chaucer's works from a historical perspective.
  
• Encourages students to make links between past and present criticism.
  
• Foregrounds those modern approaches that are genuinely productive.
  
• Avoids a formulaic approach through lively editorial commentary and judicious selection of texts.

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day.

• Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies.
  
• Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
  
• Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
  
• Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day.

• Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare's tragedies.
  
• Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions.
  
• Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context.
  
• Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets.

• Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings
  
• Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats - as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing
  
• Cross-referencing between the different sections...

This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.

• A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
  
• Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
  
• Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
  
• Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
  
• Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and...

This guide helps readers to engage with the major critical debates surrounding literary modernism.

• A judicious selection of key critical works on literary modernism
  
• Presents a critical history from the earliest reviews to the most recent theoretical assessments
  
• Shows how modernist writers understood and constructed modernism.
  
• Shows how succeeding generations have developed those constructions and brought new interpretations to bear on the subject
  
• Discusses how modernism relates to modernity and...

Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.

• A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.
  
• Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field.
  
• Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts.
  
• Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur.
  
• Organized...