A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age

A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age provides new perspectives on the relationships between literature and culture in Britain from 1780 to 1830

Provides original essays from a variety of multi-disciplinary scholars on the Romantic era

Includes fresh insights into such topics as religious controversy and politics, empire and nationalism, and the relationship of Romanticism to modernist aesthetics

Ranges across the Romantic era's literary, visual, and non-fictional genres



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A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century

This Concise Companion presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature.

Contributes to current debates in the field on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets.

Searches out connections between the remarkable number of new genres that appeared in the eighteenth century.

Crosses conventional disciplinary lines.

Demonstrates that philosophy, history, politics and social theory both influence and are influenced by literature.

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A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen. 

The book’s contributors use the latest thinking from cultural studies, communications, and comparative media, in dialogue with literary, theatrical, and filmic approaches, in order to push the field forward. They consider Shakespeare on screen not only as a set of finished products but also as a process. For this reason, the volume is organized around topics such as authorship and collaboration, theatricality, sex and violence, globalization, and history. 

The Concise Companion offers readers a variety of accessible routes into Shakespeare on screen and supports further study of the subject through the inclusion of a bibliography, a chronological chart, and a thorough index. At the same time, it serves as a focal point for exploring fundamental issues in the study of literature and culture more broadly, such as the relationships between elite and popular culture, art and the marketplace, text, image, and performance.


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A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole. 

The first single-volume book to provide an accessible and authoritative introduction to Shakespearean bibliographic studies

Includes a helpful introduction, notes on Shakespeare’s texts, and a useful bibliography

Contributors represent both leading and emerging scholars in the fieldRepresents an unparalleled resource for both students and faculty

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A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture

This Concise Companion is a guide to the creative output of the United States in the postwar period, in its diverse energies, shapes and forms. 

  + Embraces diversity, covering Vietnam literature, gay and lesbian literature, American Jewish fiction, Italian American literature, Irish American writing, emergent ethnic literatures, African American writing, jazz, film, drama and more.

  + Shows how different genres and approaches opened up creative possibilities and interacted in the postwar period.

  + Portrays the postwar United States split by differences of wealth and position, by ethnicity and race, and by agendas of left and right, but united in the intensity of its creative drive.


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A Concise Companion to Postcolonial Literature

Taking an innovative and multi-disciplinary approach to literature from 1947 to the present day, this Concise Companion is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonial literature and culture.

An indispensable guide for anyone seeking an authoritative understanding of the intellectual contexts of Postcolonialism, bringing together 10 original essays from leading international scholars including C. L. Innes and Susan Bassnett

Explains the ideas and practises that emerged from the dismantling of European empires

Explores the ways in which these ideas and practices influenced the period’s keynote concerns, such as race, culture, and identity; literary and cultural translations; and the politics of resistance

Chapters cover the fields of identity studies, orality and literacy, nationalisms, feminism, anthropology and cultural criticism, the politics of rewriting, new geographies, publishing and marketing, translation studies.

Features a useful Chronology of the period, thorough general bibliography, and guides to further reading

Contents

List of Illustrations vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1

Shirley Chew

1 Framing Identities 9

David Richards

2 Orality and Literacy 29

Part 1: India G.N. Devy

Part 2: South Africa Duncan Brown

3 The Politics of Rewriting 56

C.L. Innes

4 Postcolonial Translations 78

Susan Bassnett

5 Nation and Nationalisms 97

John McLeod

6 Feminism and Womanism 120

Nana Wilson-Tagoe

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Contents

7 Cartographies and Visualization 141

David Howard

8 Marginality: Representations of Subalternity,

Aboriginality and Race 162

Stephen Morton

9 Anthropology and Postcolonialism 182

Will Rea

10 Publishing Histories 204

Gail Low

Index 229


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A Concise Companion to Modernism

This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.

Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain.

Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contexts of literary Modernism.

Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism and eugenics rather than literary genres.

Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of the period, such as feminism, imperialism and war.


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