TheCambridge Introduction to Francophone Literature

Some of the most exciting and stimulating literature to appear during the last
few decades has beenwritten by men andwomen living in, or originating from,
former colonies of the various European powers. This is certainly true in the
case of France and francophone literature.While not quite matching the regularitywith
whichnon-metropolitan ‘English’ authors have carried off theMann
Booker prize in recent years, winners of the most prestigious French literary
prizes have included a significant number

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TheCambridge Introduction to George Eliot

George Eliot’s life provides as compelling a narrative as any she ever invented.
Born the same year as Queen Victoria, the woman known successively asMary
Anne Evans, Marian Lewes, George Eliot and Mary Ann Cross lived through
dramatic personal and cultural changes that track those of the nineteenth
century. While George Eliot refused to sanction any biography during her
life, she showed a lively interest in the biographies of others. After reading
J. G. Lockhart’s Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (1839), for example, she
wrote: “All biography is interesting

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The Cambridge Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne

Born on the Fourth of July in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne ranks with Herman
Melville, Henry James, and Mark Twain among the best nineteenth-century
American male novelists. Hawthorne grew up in Salem, Massachusetts, and
Puritan historyprovidedhimwith the backgroundformanyof his later fictional
wor

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The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett

A generation after his death, Samuel Beckett remains one of the giants of
twentieth-century literature and drama. More troubling for his critics, he is
also one of the last century’s most potent literary myths. Like other ‘modernists’,
he has a reputation for obscurity and diYculty, yet despite this his work
permeates our culture in unique ways. The word ‘Beckettian’ resonates even
amongst those who know little Beckett. It evokes a bleak vision of life
leavened by mordant humour

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This Very Short Introduction sheds light on the cluster of concepts and themes that set critical theory apart from its more traditional philosophical competitors. Bronner explains and discusses concepts such as method and agency, alienation and reification, the culture industry and repressive tolerance, non-identity and utopia. He argues for the introduction of new categories and perspectives for illuminating the obstacles to progressive change and focusing upon hidden transformative possibilities. Only a critique of critical theory can render it salient for a new age. That is precisely what this very short introduction provides.