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Routledge Guides to Literature


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Routledge Guides to Literature are clear introductions to authors and texts most frequently studied by undergraduate students of literature. Each book explores texts, contexts and criticism, highlighting the critical views and contextual factors that students must consider in advanced studies of literary works.
Each guide presents a variety of approaches and interpretations, encouraging readers to think critically about 'standard' views and to make independent readings of literary texts. Alongside general guides to texts and authors, the series includes 'sourcebooks', which incorporate extracts from key contextual and critical materials as well as annotated passages from the primary text.
Some books in this series were originally published in the Routledge Literary Sourcebook series, edited by Duncan Wu, or the Complete Critical Guide to English Literature series, edited by Richard Bradford and Jan Jedrzjewski.

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The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

1st Edition

Edited By Alice Jenkins
March 30, 2006

Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins’ poetry presents: extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and interpretations of his work, from composition to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews and critical works unabridged texts...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

1st Edition

Edited By Alexander Leggatt
February 10, 2006

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a timeless tale of love, greed and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence and the dramatisation of evil. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare’s play presents: ...

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

1st Edition

Edited By Juliet John
January 13, 2006

Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist is one of the most significant novels of the Victorian era and having been adapted for both stage and screen, retains its impact in the cultural consciousness of many nations. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Dickens’ novel includes: extensive ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

1st Edition

Edited By Robert Morrison
July 12, 2005

Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticism of the novel from the nineteenth century to the present, including material on the 1995 film adaptation. Extensive introductory comment and annotation ...

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

1st Edition

Edited By Scott McEathron
July 12, 2005

This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering: a contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poems an overview of the book's early reception and recent critical fortunes, as well as a wide range of ...

Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

1st Edition

By G. A. Rudd
May 04, 2001

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Geoffrey Chaucer offers: *basic information on an author's life, contexts and works *the major critical ...

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

1st Edition

By James Loxley
December 21, 2001

Next to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson is perhaps the most widely studied Renaissance dramatist. Very few students of literature or drama would not encounter Volpone or Bartholomew Fair in the course of their studies, and there has been a recent resurgence of interest in Epicoene , or the Silent ...

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

1st Edition

By Fiona Becket
May 16, 2002

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. D. H. Lawrence is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide which: * offers basic information on Lawrence's, ...

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

1st Edition

By Robert P. Irvine
May 19, 2005

Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many ...

John Milton's Paradise Lost A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

John Milton's Paradise Lost: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

1st Edition

Edited By Margaret Kean
December 30, 2004

John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness. Designed for ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

1st Edition

Edited By Catherine J. Golden
October 28, 2004

In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her landmark work, The Yellow Wall-Paper, generating spirited debates in literary and political circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Today this story of a young wife and mother succumbing to madness is hailed both as a feminist classic and a key text in...

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition

1st Edition

Edited By Ezra Greenspan, Walt Whitman
October 28, 2004

This sourcebook includes the full text of Song of Myself. Since 1855, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself has been enjoyed, debated, parodied and imitated by readers, critics and artists crossing national and linguistic boundaries. Many argue that it is the most influential poem ever written by an ...

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