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A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in...
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The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon
This is a ten volume definitive edition of critical, old-spelling texts of the plays in the Beaumont and Fletcher canon, in which the texts are...
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First Part of King Henry IV
This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare’s First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its...
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The Second Part of King Henry IV
Melchiori offers a fresh approach to the text of The Second Part of King Henry IV, which he sees as an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a...
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Liquid Times
The passage from 'solid' to 'liquid' modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting for individual life pursuits, confronting...
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Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot
Conflating a biography and a criticism of Tolstoy, Shklovsky uses this great author to make a case for a revolutionary way of reading and...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Through the publication of her bestseller Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe became one of the most internationally famous and important...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound is one of the most visible and influential poets of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most complex, his poetry containing...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville
Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass,...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain
Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century American literature, and his novels are among the best-known and most often studied texts in the...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett
This is an eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. This book provides biographical and...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s History Plays
Shakespeare’s history plays, as fresh today as when they were written, are based upon the assumption that time is not simply a destroyer but a...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare
This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick’s skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida
Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as...
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Mytologier
I sitt klassiska arbete Mytologier (1957) analyserar och förklarar sociologen och semiologen Roland Barthes (1915-1980) de "myter" som...
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Graphs, Maps, Trees
Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them...
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Emile Zola: L’Assommoir
This book offers a variety of approaches to Zola’s masterpiece, published amid considerable controversy in 1876–7. L’Assommoir (the tale of a...
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Noise/Music: A History
Noise/Music looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch...
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The Intangibilities of Form
A rich and groundbreaking study of conceptual art, from Duchamp to Warhol, and its relationship to capitalism
In this intellectually wide-ranging...
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