Books in the The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism series

This volume, first published in 2000, addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. The coverage of the book, focusing on themes and genres but drawing in discussion of the key authors, makes it the standard reference work on the period c.1780-c.1830.

This unique volume offers for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages. The essays cover all the main traditions in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and the major European vernaculars, as well as the humanist debates on literature and its uses.

Covering the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary criticism.

Covering the beginnings of critical consciousness in Greece and proceeding to the writings of Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, and Hellenistic and Roman authors, this volume is not only for classicists but for those with no Greek or Latin who are interested in the origins of literary criticism.

A comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800 is now available in paperback. The volume offers a multidisciplinary and international investigation of how the understanding of literature was transformed at the start of the modern era.

This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. It offers an authoritative account of the most important critical movements, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective.

This volume, first published in 2000, provides a thorough account of the modern critical tradition from the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century, to New Criticism and beyond. The book offers a systematic and stimulating overview of the development of the key literary-critical movements, with a comprehensive bibliography.

Volume 8 of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism deals with the most influential and hotly debated areas of literary theory as they developed in Europe and revolutionised Anglo-American literary studies. Incorporating full bibliographies, this volume charts and analyses these cross-cultural intellectual movements.

This unique volume offers for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages. The essays cover all the main traditions in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and the major European vernaculars, as well as the humanist debates on literature and its uses.

A comprehensive 1997 account of the history of literary criticism in Britain and Europe between 1660 and 1800 is now available in paperback. The volume offers a multidisciplinary and international investigation of how the understanding of literature was transformed at the start of the modern era.

Over thirty essays examine the growth of literary criticism as an institution, the major critical developments in diverse national traditions and genres, and the era's great critical figures. The publication of this volume marks the completion of the monumental Cambridge History of Literary Criticism from antiquity to the present day.

This 1999 volume, now available in paperback for the first time, has become the standard work of reference on early modern literary criticism in Europe. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.

Over thirty essays examine the growth of literary criticism as an institution, the major critical developments in diverse national traditions and genres, and the era's great critical figures. The publication of this volume marks the completion of the monumental Cambridge History of Literary Criticism from antiquity to the present day.