This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.
Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; "others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
Entices students to explore the subject further.
Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.
This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.
Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
Explores the relationships between work by different poets
Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect
Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory
With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.A. Cuddon’s indispensable dictionary firmly in the 21st Century.
Written in a clear and highly readable style
Comprehensive historical coverage extending from ancient times to the present day
Broad intellectual and cultural range
Expands on the previous edition to incorporate the most recent literary terminology
New material is particularly focused in areas such as gender studies and queer theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, post-modernism, narrative theory, and cultural studies.
Existing entries have been edited to ensure that topics receive balanced treatment
Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers
Reflecting the profound impact of critical theory on the study of the humanities, this collection of original essays examines the texts and artifacts of the Anglo-Saxon period through key theoretical terms such as ‘ethnicity’ and ‘gender’.
Explores the interplay between critical theory and Anglo-Saxon studies
Theoretical framework will appeal to specialist scholars as well as those new to the field
Includes an afterword on the value of the dialogue between Anglo-Saxon studies and critical theory
