Books in the Cambridge Companions to Literature series

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.

This book orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts. It illustrates the major methodologies and explains why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage.

This book orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts. It illustrates the major methodologies and explains why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage.

Discusses Tagore's uniquely varied output across literature, music, art, philosophy, history, politics, education and public affairs.

English literature, Literary theory, Sociology of gender

English literature, English literature - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval, Medieval studies

Roman comedy has been a model for writers and artists ranging from Shakespeare to Martin Luther and from Moliere to Cole Porter. This volume supplies a comprehensive critical introduction to Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in more than twenty accessible and up-to-date chapters written by leading scholars.

Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a substantial contribution to the field. It takes the long historical view, outlines essential concepts, and reflects on the way narrative forms connect with and rework social forms.

This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets. Each essay offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement and importance, with readings of the most important poems. The Companion is an ideal accompaniment to survey courses in English literature.

Comprehensive in scope, these new essays cover the fiction in the European languages from North Africa and Africa south of the Sahara, as well as in Arabic. Including a guide to further reading and a chronology, this is the ideal starting-point for students of African and world literatures.

This Companion offers a comprehensive overview and interpretation of Romantic poetry in its literary and historical contexts. Attention is given to the work of less well-known or recently rediscovered authors, alongside some of the greatest poets in the English language: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Scott, Burns, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Clare.

This Companion charts the shape of DeLillo's career and provides in-depth assessments of his best-known novels, White Noise, Libra, and Underworld, which have become required reading not only for students of American literature, but for all interested in the history and the future of American culture.

This Companion offers a wide-ranging and innovative guide to one of the most exciting and important periods in British theatrical history. Chapters cover subjects such as actors and acting, playwrights and performers and the major theatrical forms of the period such as tragedy, melodrama and pantomime.

London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore representations of the city and its literary culture from medieval times to the present.

One of America's most powerful and original dramatists, August Wilson offered an alternative history of the twentieth century, as seen from the perspective of black Americans. He celebrated the lives of those seemingly pushed to the margins of national life, but who were simultaneously protagonists of their own drama and evidence of a vital and compelling community. Decade by decade, he told the story of a people with a distinctive history who forged their own future, aware of their roots in another time and place, but doing something more than just survive. Wilson deliberately addressed black America, but in doing so discovered an international audience. Alongside chapters addressing Wilson's life and career, and the wider context of his plays, this Companion dedicates individual chapters to each play in his ten-play cycle, which are ordered chronologically, demonstrating Wilson's notion of an unfolding history of the twentieth century.

The Irish novel has had a distinguished history. It spans such diverse authors as James Joyce, George Moore, Maria Edgeworth, Bram Stoker, Flann O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Lady Morgan, John Banville, and others. Yet it has until now received less critical attention than Irish poetry and drama. This volume covers three hundred years of Irish achievement in fiction, with essays on key genres, themes, and authors. It provides critiques of individual works, accounts of important novelists, and histories of sub-genres and allied narrative forms, establishing significant social and political contexts for dozens of novels. The varied perspectives and emphases by more than a dozen critics and literary historians ensure that the Irish novel receives due tribute for its colour, variety and linguistic verve. Each chapter features recommended further reading. This is the perfect overview for students of the Irish novel from the romances of the seventeenth century to the present day.

This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a particular stage in her development, for example professionalism in the seventeenth century; the emergence of the actress/critic during the Romantic period and, later on, of the actress as best selling autobiographer; the coming of the drama schools which led to today's emphasis on the actress as a highly-trained working woman. Chapters consider the image of the actress as a courtesan, as a 'muse', as a representative of the 'ordinary' housewife, and as a political activist. The collection also contains essays on forms, genres and traditions - on cross dressing, solo performance, racial constraints, and recent Shakespeare - as well as on the actress in early photography and on film. Its unique range will fascinate, surprise and instruct theatre-goers and students alike.

Presents an up-to-date, contextualized account of the global reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It analyses festivals as sites of intercultural negotiation and exchange and reveals their role in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Arab world, Europe and the Americas.

This Companion introduces readers to the writings of Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. It provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works, including his novels, autobiographical fictions, translations, scholarly books, and volumes of correspondence.

This Companion introduces readers to the writings of Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. It provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee's works, including his novels, autobiographical fictions, translations, scholarly books, and volumes of correspondence.

A thorough overview of the history of English monolingual dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day, including coverage of topical and controversial issues relating to dictionaries, and insights into lexicography throughout the English-speaking world, from the Oxford English Dictionary to dictionaries of Caribbean English.

A thorough overview of the history of English monolingual dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day, including coverage of topical and controversial issues relating to dictionaries, and insights into lexicography throughout the English-speaking world, from the Oxford English Dictionary to dictionaries of Caribbean English.

This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day. It rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children's literature.

This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day. It rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children's literature.

This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and analysing the state of the field, it will be an important resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century literature.

This Companion explores an extensive range of 1930s authors, contexts, themes, and literary debates. Informed by current scholarly approaches and analysing the state of the field, it will be an important resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century literature.

Lyrical Ballads is a text of huge cultural and literary significance. The cornerstone of British Romantic poetry, it is a must-read for any student of this subject. These accessible essays provide essential contexts and critical approaches, enabling students to find fresh ways of understanding and responding to the volume.

This Companion is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to professional scholars and from a variety of disciplines, who are interested in the new field of human rights and literature.

The Companion provides an introduction to the relationship between law and literature in medieval England. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of literature, history and culture in the Anglo-Saxon, medieval and Tudor periods. Scholars will also appreciate the surveys and discussions of literary uses of legal motifs.