Laurie Johnson 
Leicester’s Men and their Plays [PDF ebook] 
An Early Elizabethan Playing Company and its Legacy

Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, ‚The Death of the Author, ‚ argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation beca …

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards “otherness“ in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of B …

Using the example of The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter to explore the impact of new media and technologies on how children learn about stories and reading, this book investigates nearly 100 …

‚If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? “Pre-histories“ and “afterlives“, methods that have …

Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene L …

Women“s Experimental Writing considers six contemporary authors who use experimental methods and negative modes of critique in their fiction and feminism. The authors covered are Valerie Solanas, Ka …

Crime Fiction provides a lively introduction to what is both a wide-ranging and hugely popular literary genre. Using examples from a variety of novels, short stories, films and televisions series, Jo …

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer“s work, enabling students and research …

Doctor Faustus, is Christopher Marlowe“s most popular play and is often seen as one of the overwhelming triumphs of the English Renaissance. It has had a rich and varied critical history often arous …

First published in 1986. This outstanding collection of major essays by some of America’s finest literary scholars and critics provides students of American literature with a unique perspective of Am …