In this comprehensive Companion over fifty of the very best of modern scholars - including Patrick Collinson, Germaine Greer, Richard Harries, Arthur Kinney, Andrew Hadfield , Jean Howard, and Judith Anderson - come together to offer an original and far-reaching survey of English Renaissance literature and culture. The first part of the volume considers pertinent issues such as humanism, English reformations, the development of the language, court culture, and playhouses, in terms of the way in which these aspects of Renaissance culture influenced literary production. There are provocative essays on canonical genres such as love poetry and Jacobean tragedy , but also accounts of popular and occasional drama and verse, and on the visual arts.
A Companion to American Fiction 1865 - 1914 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century, contains 29 essays written by top scholars in the field. Each essay presents a synthesis of the best scholarly perspectives and offers an original perspective of its own.
A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction, relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity and covers different forms of fiction.
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics is an indispensable
guide and reference source to the major thinkers and topics in
aesthetics. Forty-six new entries by a team of renowned international
contributors provide clear and up-to-date entries under four headings:
historical, from Plato to Derrida; aesthetic theory, from definitions
of art to pictorial representation; issues and challenges, from
criticism to feminist aesthetics; and the individual arts, from
literature to theater.
A Companion to Tourism (Blackwell Companions to Geography)
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This groundbreaking Companion offers readers an opportunity
to reassess key themes in contemporary tourism studies in the light of
recent theoretical developments in tourism studies and the social
sciences, as well as dramatic changes in the operating environment for
tourism.
A critical overview of current research in tourism studies.
Offers
readers an opportunity to reassess key themes in tourism studies in the
light of recent developments, such as terrorist attacks, SARS and the
financial failure of airlines.
Comprises 48 specially commissioned essays, written by more than 50 acknowledged experts from around the world.
Covers
cutting-edge perspectives and topics, including tourism’s role in
globalization, sustainable tourism, and the state’s role in tourism
development.
