Books for Twentieth Century Literature Courses

The Routledge Companion to Gothic

Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy

Series: Routledge Companions

In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age. The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on: the...

Published October 18th 2007 by Routledge

The Popular and the Canonical

Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1940–2000

Edited by David Johnson

Series: Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates

This volume ranges from the Second World War to the postmodern, considering issues of the 'popular' and the competing criteria by which literature has been judged in the later twentieth century. As well as tracing the transition from modernism to postmodernism, the authors guide students through...

Published April 24th 2005 by Routledge

A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader

Texts and Debates

Edited by Suman Gupta, David Johnson

Series: Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates

This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight into theoretical discussions around the...

Published January 18th 2005 by Routledge

Aestheticism and Modernism

Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1900–1960

Edited by Richard Danson Brown, Suman Gupta

Series: Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates

This textbook ranges from the early twentieth-century to the full array of modernisms emerging between the First and Second World Wars. The editors introduce twentieth-century debates around genre, form and content reflected in both literary and critical writing of the period, as well as differing...

Published December 8th 2004 by Routledge

The New Bloomsday Book

A Guide Through Ulysses, 3rd Edition

By Harry Blamires

Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve. The New...

Published September 25th 1996 by Routledge