Acknowledgements Preface: How to use the book PART I: ABOUT LITERATURE Literature: Fundamental Questions Introduction; J.Wolfreys What is Literature?; B.Overton Why Study Literature?; K.Womack Your Literature Course What to Expect from your English Course; J.Wolfreys Typical Structure and Content; J.Wolfreys Literature and Language; J.Wolfreys Literature and Creative Writing; J.Cooke Comparative Literature; D.Bremm Getting the Most from your Course: J.Wolfreys Study Skills for Literature Introduction: J.Wolfreys Study Skills: C.Ringrose Writing and Presentation; J.Wolfreys PART II: LITERATURE MODULES Literature Introduction Critical Studies: an Example of a Core Module; J.Wolfreys Periods Old English Literature; P.Semper Medieval Literature; D.Griffith The Sixteenth Century; J.Fitzpatrick The Seventeenth Century; H.Adlington The Eighteenth Century; B.Overton Romanticism and Gothic; I.McCormick The Nineteenth Century and the Victorians; C.Kelley Modernism; A.Murray Forms, Genres and Other Popular Modules Tragedy; J.Wolfreys Comedy; J.Wolfreys The Novel; H.Wright Poetry; B.Overton Drama; N.Swettenham & R.J.Brocklehurst Epic; N.Wood Lyric; N.Wood Satire; N.Wood Realism; L.Phillips Fiction; L.Phillips Contemporary and Postmodern Fiction; A.Murray Gender; D.Bremm Class; N.Freeman Colonial and Postcolonial Literature; J.Ramone Subjectivity; M.Becker-Leckrone Chidren's Literature; J.Bavidge Film Studies; A.Dix Popular Fiction; J.Baetens American Literature; B.Jarvis & A.Dix Contemporary Literature; J.Wolfreys PART III: CRITICAL APPROACHES AND SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT Critical Approaches Introduction; J.Wolfreys Formalism; M.Becker-Leckrone Archetypal Criticism; D.Bremm New Criticism; M.Becker-Leckrone Bakhtin and Dialogic Criticism; K.Zbinden Feminism; R.Robbins Marxism; A.Murray Structuralism; A.Murray Psychoanalysis; B.Jarvis Deconstruction; M-D.Dick Postcolonialism; J.Ramone New Historicism; C.Ringrose Cultural Materialism; A.Murray African American Criticism; A.Dix Chicano/a Studies; J.Ramone Gay Studies and Queer Theory; H.Davies Cultural Studies; B.Jarvis Ecocriticism; J.Bavidge Postmodernism; A.Dix PART IV: KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS; R.Robbins, J.Wolfreys & K.Womack PART V: CAREER PATHWAYS Introduction; J.Wolfreys Careers for English Graduates; R.Robbins The Experience of a Degree in English; C.Bowditch Interview, Conducted by Claire Bowditch Conclusion; J.Wolfreys PART VI: LEARNING RESOURCE; J.Wolfreys Chronology List of Contributors Index.
'This is a Guide that I would recommend to beginning students, without any doubt.' - Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'The English Literature Companion would be useful for anyone considering studying or already studying for a degree or just interested in the subject...Although made up of essays by different contributors it is easy to read and the quick reference sections of terms and events definitely support understanding.' - Claire Buckley, Assistant Librarian, The Leeds Library, Leeds, Language and Literature
JULIAN WOLFREYS is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Loughborough University, UK. He was previously Professor in Literature at the University of Florida, USA. His teaching and research is concerned with 19th- and 20th-century British literary and cultural studies, literary theory, the poetics and politics of identity, and the idea of the city. He is the series editor of Transitions and his publications include Introducing Literary Theories (ed.), Readings: Acts of Close Reading in Literary Theory, Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory, Thinking Otherwise: Difference and Pedagogy and Literature, in Theory: Tropes, Subjectivities, Responses and Responsibilities.
'This is a Guide that I would recommend to beginning students, without any doubt.' - Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'The English Literature Companion would be useful for anyone considering studying or already studying for a degree or just interested in the subject...Although made up of essays by different contributors it is easy to read and the quick reference sections of terms and events definitely support understanding.' - Claire Buckley, Assistant Librarian, The Leeds Library, Leeds, Language and Literature
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