A Companion to the Gothic (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series)

Anyone lucky enough to have this volume sitting on their shelves has instant access to the recent thinking of a long list of scholars who have led the way in Gothic studies. The book is a veritable Baedecker's guide that ranges from the historical Goths of the third century to Stephen King in the twentieth century; that explores dimensions of Gothic through painting and cinema, as well as written texts; that roams across Europe and America as well as the British Isles.

Punter himself contributes a concise but stimulating introduction." Studies in Hogg and His World "The individual essays are narrow enough to describe discrete topics but useful to newcomer and scolar alike." "Punter's volume is sure to be a standard reference for some time to come for undergraduates and scholars." Choice "The book does not offer a house view of what Gothic is, but instead faithfully reproduces the status of current debates on the relevant genres. Many essays provide useful summaries of criticism or of primary texts; others offer new critical insights."

Times Higher Education Supplement "Without foreclosing interpretative possibilities ... A Companion to the Gothic offers a range of strategies for understanding the genre, and is an excellent resource for students, teachers, and scholars of the Gothic.


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A Companion to the Global Renaissance English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion

Featuring twenty one newly-commissioned essays, A Companion to the Global Renaissance: English Literature and Culture in the Era of Expansion demonstrates how today's globalization is the result of a complex and lengthy historical process that had its roots in England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

An innovative collection that interrogates the global paradigm of our period and offers a new history of globalization by exploring its influences on English culture and literature of the early modern period.

Moves beyond traditional notions of Renaissance history mainly as a revival of antiquity and presents a new perspective on England's mercantile and cross-cultural interactions with the New and Old Worlds of the Americas, Africa, and the East, as well with Northern Europe.

Illustrates how twentieth-century globalization was the result of a lengthy and complex historical process linked to the emergence of capitalism and colonialism

Explores vital topics such as East-West relations and Islam; visual representations of cultural 'others'; gender and race struggles within the new economies and cultures; global drama on the cosmopolitan English stage, and many more



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A Companion to the English Novel (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series)

This collection of authoritative essays represents the latest scholarship on topics relating to the themes, movements, and forms of English fiction, while chronicling its development in Britain from the early 18th century to the present day.

Comprises cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, incorporating the most salient critical trends and approaches

Explores the history, evolution, genres, and narrative elements of the English novel

Considers the advancement of various literary forms – including such genres as realism, romance, Gothic, experimental fiction, and adaptation into film

Includes coverage of narration, structure, character, and affect; shifts in critical reception to the English novel; and geographies of contemporary English fiction

Features contributions from a variety of distinguished and high-profile literary scholars, along with emerging younger critics

Includes a comprehensive scholarly bibliography of critical works on and about the novel to aid further reading and research


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A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture ( Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series)

A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. 

* An up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel. 

* Furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. 

* Foregrounds those topics of most historical and political relevance to the twenty-first century. 

* Explores formative influences on the eighteenth-century novel, its engagement with the major issues and philosophies of the period, and its lasting legacy. 

* Covers both traditional themes, such as narrative authority and print culture, and cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, nationhood, technology, and science. 

* Keeps readers abreast of current critical trends in the field. 

* Considers both canonical and non-canonical literature. 

* The editors and contributors are well-known and respected scholars in the field.


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A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series)

A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present.

Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present

Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors

Comprises chapters on women s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain


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A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 - 2000 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series)

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. 

The Companion embraces the full range of this rich and heterogeneous subject, covering: specific British and Irish novels and novelists ranging from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie; particular subgenres such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel; overarching cultural, political, and literary trends such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon. All the essays are informed by current critical and theoretical debates, but are designed to be accessible to non-specialists. 

The volume as a whole gives readers a sense of the vitality with which the contemporary novel continues to be discussed.


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A Companion to the American Short Story (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series)

A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past 200 years.

Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles

Contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fiction

Embraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writing

Includes a section focused on specific authors and texts, from Edgar Allen Poe to John Updike

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A Companion to Shakespeares Works Vol 4 Poems Problem Comedies and Late Plays (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Series)

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis.

Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems.

Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.

Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century.

This companion to Shakespeare’s histories contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V as well as fourteen additional articles on such topics as censorship in Shakespeare’s histories, the relation of Shakespeare’s plays to other dramatic histories of the period, Shakespeare’s histories on film, the homoerotics of Shakespeare’s history plays, and nation formation in Shakespeare’s histories.

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