This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children's literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000.
The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and entertaining subject, and explores the ways in which it can be approached.
The Guide includes:
* Detailed critical surveys of the work of forty major authors, from Mrs Sherwood to J. K. Rowling, Louisa May Alcott to Dr Seuss, Mary Grant Bruce to Margaret Mahy, and Quentin Blake to Ted Hughes.
This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children's literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000....
Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.
A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry.
Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.
Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.
Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets...
Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetr...
The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time.
Provides a coherent narrative of the entire century of literary history as well as an easy-to-use guide to the principal literary works and figures
Offers an exploration of the ways the literature reflected and helped shape the history of the time
Describes the continuities as well as the radical changes in this century of civil war and...
The Seventeenth Century Handbook provides the undergraduate with a succinct account of the century's events, along with an exploration of the w...
The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction. It includes a wide-ranging analysis of non-canonical and non-realist writers as well as the major authors and their works, providing a comprehensive and much-needed appraisal of this area.
Guides readers through the development of the short story and critical issues involved in discussions of short fiction
Offers a detailed discussion of the range of genres in the British and Irish short...
The British and Irish Short Story Handbook guides readers through the development of the short story and the unique critical issues involved in...
