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Dr Julian Wolfreys
With chapters focusing on particular novels, this book charts the transitions of Victorian literary and cultural concerns across the Nineteenth century. Julian Wolfreys questions how the Victorians identified themselves in…
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What does it mean to read or write with ghosts, or to suggest that acts of reading or writing are haunted? In what ways can authors in the nineteenth century…
Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and…
This is a reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today. It…
Provides a guide to directions in literary criticism. This book offer chapters that introduce the modes of ‘hybrid’ criticism which have emerged in the 21st century.
Julian Wolfreys
Drawing on recent developments concerning national identity in post-Marxist criticism and Derridean philosophy, Wolfreys looks at the ways in which literature is used to represent the English middle-classes to themselves…
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Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.
In this introductory study to the work of Jacques Derrida, the reader is introduced to a range of the theorist’s interests and concerns, while offering readings, informed by Derrida’s thought…
The essays in this New Casebook showcase some of the most original evaluations of Hardy, from a variety of theoretically informed positions such as Marxism, Feminism, phenomenology and psychoanalysis, as…
No other major author of the nineteenth century has arguably produced as much critical activity as Thomas Hardy. This timely addition to the Critical Issues series explores the various philosophical…
Difference has been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed…
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A one-stop student resource covering all aspects of studying literature from the nature and main components of the subject and key terms, theory and approaches, to study skills and career…
Through a series of short essays, Readings traces the consideration given to the act of close reading in literary criticism and theory over the last thirty years.
This, the first reader of Miller’s work in English, is an indispensable overview and introduction to one of the most original and challenging critical voices to have emerged since the…
This volume offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European ‘theory’.
This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day.
This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of…
From “Thing Theory to animal theory, multimodality to film adaptation, and from acts of reading in a digital age to the creative writing workshop, the volume reflects a radical reorientation…
A guide to the history and development of modern criticism in the humanities. The work takes the reader through introductions to historically influential philosophers and movements before focusing on three…
Introducing Literary Theories is an ideal introduction for those coming to literary theory for the first time. It provides an accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches in chapters covering…
Suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens’ novels and journalism can be seen…
Taking Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project as an inspiration, this book offers a project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its…
Silent Music is a book about those small spaces - between the last note and the first applause, between saying ‘hello’ and falling in love, between dream and reality, between…
Uses the lenses of perception, memory and appearance to explore loss - in our experience, our imagination, in literature and film. Citing Heidegger, Derrida, Lacan, Cixous, Celan, Husserl, Woolf, Joyce…
Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship…
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide is the first reader and introductory guide in one volume.
William Baker,Dr Julian Wolfreys
Literary Theories challenges the notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation. These essays offer an interactive introduction to the ways in which contemporary literary…
Dr Julian Wolfreys (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Jacques Derrida is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This guide provides students with an introduction to Derrida, the key concepts and ideas associated with his…
Addresses the interface between literature and theory. This book examines a wide range of authors, from Dickens to Joyce, and engages directly with a number of major theorists - including…
Abigail Bray,Julian Wolfreys
Abigail Bray offers an introduction to Helene Cixous’s major philosophical and literary concepts and explains the critical relevance of her theorisation of writing and sexual difference.
Jacques Derrida
This collection aims to introduce the student reader to the wide-ranging, stimulating and innovative thought of Jacques Derrida, one of the twentieth-century’s most significant thinkers in literature, philosophy and art.
Reading Victorian Literature provides a critical commentary on major authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Dickens to Conrad.
The Victorian period was one of cultural diversity with places for figures as different as Alfred Tennyson and Oscar Wilde. Victorian Identities explores that diversity whilst drawing out the connections…
Maxwell Gray
The first scholarly edition of forgotten late Victorian classic of rural life and sensation fiction.
Additionally considering the role of dialect and region in the poetry and fiction of modern Scotland, the volume argues for an appreciation of the cultural diversity of Scottish writers while…
Richard Marsh
The Beetle (1897) tells the story of a fantastical creature, born of neither god nor man, with supernatural and hypnotic powers, who stalks British politician Paul Lessingham through fin de…
