Books in the Longman Critical Readers series

This judicious selection of key works by Stephen Heath, Fredrick Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film.

This text contains sections covering the definition of metafiction, historiographic metafiction and the writer and critic. It includes selected readings of metafiction.

This text covers the most significant areas of recent work on Tennyson, linking feminist and gender studies with deconstrcutive, psychoanalytic and linguistic attention. The essays in the book reflect a range of modes of critical inquiry compelling in themselves.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in selected poems of Percy Shelley and locate areas of disagreement between positions.

This collection of major critical readings presents the best of contemprary literary theory and criticism on Joseph Conrad. The chapters cover different critical approaches, each containing two or three critical excerpts which offer contrasting and complementary accounts of the fiction.

This work demonstrates the diversity and the literary and historical significance of early women's writing. The author applies feminist critical approaches to the central issues raised by early women's writing and considers the interaction of gender with class and race in the period.

The fin de siecle, the period 1880-1914, long associated with decadence and with the literary movements of aestheticism and symbolism, has received renewed critical interest recently. This book introduces fin de siecle cultural studies and commentates on aspects of current critical debate.

This is a collection of recent critical writing on Edmund Spenser. The essays cover the whole of Spenser's work, from such early literary experiments as "The Shepeardes Calendar" to his unfinished crowning work "The Faerie Queene". A review of critical responses to Spenser is also included.

This collection of essays on Andrew Marvell examines his poems including "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn"and looks at his writings about Cromwell and Republican Civil War culture.

Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery of Victorian women poets including Emily Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti by femine critics.

This compilation of feminist criticism includes contributions from 12 authors who comment on such themes as sexual politics and male feminism, in literary texts.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions.

Narratology is a rapidly growing field in the humanities. This text provides an overview of, and introduction to, the subject, as well as assessing recent developments across a variety of disciplines. It stresses the mutual influences of narratology and deconstruction, feminism and media studies.

The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions.