This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.
An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.
Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.
Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.
Writers represented include More, Erasmus,...
This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious w...
This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it -big-, -new-, -rich-, and -free-.
Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period.
Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ways that foster discussion, questioning, and continued study.
An appendix lists relevant primary and secondary works, including websites.
An ideal supplement to primary texts...
This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it -big-, -new-, -r...
This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it -big-, -new-, -rich-, and -free-.
Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period.
Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ways that foster discussion, questioning, and continued study.
An appendix lists relevant primary and secondary works, including websites.
An ideal supplement to primary texts...
This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it -big-, -new-, -r...
This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, looking at the themes, images, and structure of his work, as well as the social and historical circumstances surrounding their creation.
Explores the biographical mystery of the identities of the characters addressed.
Examines the intangible aspects of each sonnet, such as eroticism and imagination.
A helpful appendix offers a summary of each poem with descriptions of key literary figures.
This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, looking at the themes, images, an...
This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, looking at the themes, images, and structure of his work, as well as the social and historical circumstances surrounding their creation.
Explores the biographical mystery of the identities of the characters addressed.
Examines the intangible aspects of each sonnet, such as eroticism and imagination.
A helpful appendix offers a summary of each poem with descriptions of key literary figures.
This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare's sonnets, looking at the themes, images, an...
This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn of the twenty-first century.
Provides a balanced assessment of the major plays and playwrights of the period.
Shows how these dramatists broke new ground in their contribution to political, economic, social and cultural debates, as well as in their dramaturgical strategies.
Organized chronologically, with plays, playwrights and movements clustered around different movements such as realism and...
This concise introduction to American drama gives readers an overview of how American drama developed from the end of the Second World War to the turn...
Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.
Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.
Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.
Includes close...
Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful rea...
