This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept,...

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First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical soci...

This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical ...

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessme...

The author, a leading and influential critic of Thomas Hardy, brings together for the first time ...

A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet cru...

Thomas Hardy has long been critically constructed as 'poet of Wessex' and 'novelist of Character ...

First published in 1989, this study investigates Hardy not so much in terms of his novels but as ...

This introduction to practicing literary theory is a reader consisting of extracts from critical ...

First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical soci...

The best of the many guides to literary theory that are currently available. Widdowson and Brooke...