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Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

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Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	Jacobean Drama Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Pascale Aebischer Palgrave Macmillan This Readers' Guide introduces readers to the criticism and debates that are specific to the drama of the Jacobean period. Covering playwrights such as Jonson,...

Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	Alice Walker - The Color Purple Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Rachel Lister Palgrave Macmillan This guide explores the range of key critical responses to Walker's novel, from contemporary reviews to twenty-first century readings. It deals with various...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Nicolas Tredell Palgrave Macmillan This book provides a stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments,...

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Beowulf

Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism

Jodi-Anne George Palgrave Macmillan

This Guide provides an essential overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism. Like other books in the series, this Guide takes a chronological approach,...

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Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility/ Pride and Prejudice/ Emma Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Annika Bautz Palgrave Macmillan This Guide discusses the range of critical reactions to three of Jane Austen's most widely-studied and popular novels. Annika Bautz takes the reader...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Matthew Beedham Palgrave Macmillan This Guide outlines the initial critical responses to the novels of one of the most popular contemporary authors and explores the key critical positions that...

Trade Paperback : $23.00 Buy	Shakespeare's Late Plays Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Nicholas Potter Palgrave Macmillan An essential critical survey of the major debates and issues surrounding Shakespeare's late plays, from the earliest published accounts to the present day.

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	William Wordsworth - The Prelude Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Timothy Milnes Palgrave Macmillan The Prelude is now seen as a central text in the Wordsworth corpus. This Guide identifies and gathers significant critical perspectives, interpretations and...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Sara Lodge Palgrave Macmillan Sara Lodge offers a lively introduction to the critical history of one of the most widely-studied nineteenth-century novels, from the first reviews through to...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Contemporary Scottish Literature Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Matthew McGuire Palgrave Macmillan This Guide examines the critical construction of the genre of 'contemporary Scottish literature' and assesses the critical responses to a wide range of...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Bram Stoker - Dracula Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism William Hughes Palgrave Macmillan This comprehensive survey of the critical response to Dracula provides an overview of the trends and development of work surrounding the novel. The critics and...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Simon Avery Palgrave Macmillan This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two major nineteenth-century novels by the popular Victorian author Thomas Hardy, from the time of their...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Steven Price Palgrave Macmillan David Mamet is arguably the most important living American playwright. This Guide provides an up-to-date study of the key criticism on the full range of...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	Twentieth-Century Irish Literature Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Aaron Kelly Palgrave Macmillan This Guide surveys existing criticism and theory and enables students to understand the key critical debates, paradigms and predominant themes and issues in...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Postcolonial Literature Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Justin Edwards Palgrave Macmillan This Guide analyzes the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions and countries of the postcolonial world. Criticism on works by key...

Trade Paperback : $24.00 Buy	Shakespeare - Henry V Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Matthew Woodcock Palgrave Macmillan Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The Fiction of A.S. Byatt Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Louisa Hadley Palgrave Macmillan

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe/Moll Flanders Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Paul Baines Palgrave Macmillan This Guide examines the major trends and movements in critical interpretation of two of the most popular and widely-studied eighteenth-century novels, from the...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	The Fiction of Chinua Achebe Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Jago Morrison Palgrave Macmillan An approachable and authoritative guide to one of the most important authors in modern African writing.

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Gothic Fiction Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Angela Wright Palgrave Macmillan This Reader's Guide focuses upon Gothic fiction produced predominantly in the Romantic era (1780-1820). Angela Wright assembles some of the most important...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Antony and Cleopatra Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Nicholas Potter Palgrave Macmillan This Reader's Guide provides a critical survey of the responses to this popular play, from the earliest published accounts to the present day. Leading the...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	Macbeth Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Nicolas Tredell Palgrave Macmillan A concise overview of the essential criticism and debates surrounding one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Fiction of Julian Barnes Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Vanessa Guignery Palgrave Macmillan This Guide provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the essential criticism on Julian Barnes's work, drawing from a selection of reviews,...

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	The Novels of Jeanette Winterson Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Merja Makinen Palgrave Macmillan This Reader's Guide brings together, in an easily accessible form, the range of review and critical material on the novels of Jeanette Winterson. The book...

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