British Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Animality in British Romanticism

   The Aesthetics of Species

   By Peter Heymans

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

   By Cara Murray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested, came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that prided itself on its engineering prowess and had...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)

   By Peggy Knapp

   First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterby Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
4. The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism

   By Andrew Shail

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. A Gathered Church

   The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930

   By Donald Davie

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth. This historical survey takes into the account the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott

   By Donald Davie

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works by the likes of Alexander Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper, this...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
7. Cancelled Words

   Rediscovering Thomas Hardy

   By Rosemarie Morgan

   The manuscript of Hardy's first great novel Far From the Madding Crowd vanished shortly after its first publication. Rediscovered in 1918 it sheds remarkable new light on the whole of Hardy's work. The manuscript pages, some of which are reproduced here in facsimile, reveal Hardy's original...

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
8. Daniel Defoe

   The Critical Heritage

   Edited by Pat Rogers

   The Critical Heritage gathers together a large of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

   Published November 9th 2011 by Routledge
9. Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature

   From Cædmon to Malory

   By Lawrence Besserman

   Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

   This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Brontë Novels (Routledge Revivals)

    By W. A. Craik

    First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr. Craik’s critical appreciation of the completed novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë is seminal for the way in which it shifts emphasis away from the Brontë family biography towards a detailed critical analysis of the novels themselves. Separate...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge