Literary/Critical Theory

First published in 1962, this book reveals unexpected complexity or equivocation in Wordsworth’s use of certain key words, particularly ‘image’, ‘form’ and ‘shape’. The author endeavours to show that this complexity is related to the poet’s awareness of the ambiguity of the perceptual process. Numer..

This collection collectively emphasizes the importance of understanding modernity through the lens of Romanticism, rather than simply understanding Romanticism as part of modernity. It was previously published as a special issue of European Romantic Review...

This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual, the impact of new visual media on the literary and historical imagination, and on fragments and ruins as occupying the sh..

This edited collection reflects on the continuing influence of New Historicism in Romantic Studies. Its eleven essays approach Romantic New Historicism – past, present and future – from a variety of angles in order to assess its vital contribution to our understanding, and revisioning, of the period..

First published in 1989, this book analyses fiction and long narrative, drawing on a broad range of writing from earlier periods and on recent narrative theory. Gillian Beer looks at the work of writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle and Philip Sydney, Samuel Richardson, and George Eliot...

Originally published in 1987 Barnaby Rudge is a comprehensive collection of bibliographical resources surrounding Dickens fifth novel...

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays col..

First published in 1986, the aim of this book is to present some of the changing thinking on popular writing to a wider audience in view of the enormous growth of mass culture after the war, but also to offer a historical perspective on a specific form of popular fiction: the romance. The essays col..

A collection of internationally recognised scholars address the postmodern shake-up of theory, culture and politics, which has led to a new encounter between the humanities and the discourses of religion...

Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization to examine the relationship between interpersonal relationships and economics in the plays of Shakespeare...

This challenging and lively volume contains essays by Stephen Greenblatt, Elaine Showalter, Jonathan Goldberg, Stanley Cavell, Robert Weimann, Margaret Fergusson, Howard Felperin and many others...

This reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, has been written by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. It will produce new challenges for the field of Renaissance Studies...