Books & Reading

This completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible "Routledge History of Literature in English" covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature with accompanying language notes exploring the interrelationships between language and liter... More

An introduction to one of Britain's best-known writers, which guides the reader through the novels, tracing basic patterns which run throughout Murdoch's work and showing how the novels help to elucidate one another. This new edition takes into account certain details which have emerged following Mu... More

An introduction to one of Britain's best-known writers, which guides the reader through the novels, tracing basic patterns which run throughout Murdoch's work and showing how the novels help to elucidate one another. This new edition takes into account certain details which have emerged following Mu... More

Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue, the unlikely hosts of the National Geographic Channel's popular The Mummy Road Show, recount their adventures both in front of the camera and behind the scenes as they travel the world in a converted Charles Chips delivery van. Beckett and Conlogue pioneered the combi... More

In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. "Academic Instincts" discusses three of the perennial issues that have surface... More

This volume is the first historical introduction to women's writing in France from the sixth century to the present day. Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars provide the first introduction in English to the wealth and diversity of French women writers, offering new readings and new pers... More

Helping Children with Reading and Spelling contains a basic kit of suggestions to help children who struggle with learning to read and spell. The materials build on the content of an earlier manual, Learning Difficulties in Reading and Writing, which has been widely and successfully used by teachers... More

The difficulties that students face when tackling Joyce's works are often addressed by focusing on plot, implying that the "real" books are hidden behind the author's complex language and style. This reader-friendly introduction offers an alternative approach, suggesting that close attention to Joyc... More

Naturalism is one of the key movements in modern theatre, forming the basis for mainstream plays throughout the modern period and dominating theatrical form today. Christopher Innes begins by giving a fascinating overview of naturalist theatre on themes such as the representation of women, significa... More

Exploring Educational Research Literacy offers beginning classroom teachers a comprehensive introduction to the topic of educational research literacy???that is, the ability to read educational research articles in a systemic and critical way. Many beginning teacher education students are expected t... More

"Parting from Phantoms" is a window into the soul of the most prominent writer of the German Democratic Republic and its most famous export, Christa Wolf. The essays, diary entries, and letters in this book document four agonizing years in Wolf's personal history and paint a vivid portrait of the cu... More

Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world. In this state-of-the-art collection, Alice Crary explores the work of this original and interesting figure who has already been the subject of a number of books, co... More

We celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the "perfect happiness" that can only be realized in the romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a "prophetic" ra... More

All writers are familiar with terms like plot, suspense, conflict and character. They may be less familiar with intertextuality, anachrony, and fabula, and they may be even less confident in achieving the effects these terms refer to. This book defines fictional techniques and guides the potential w... More

"How to Read the Victorian Novel" provides a unique introduction to the genre. Using examples from the classics, like "The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White," and "Middlemarch," it demonstrates just how unfamiliar their familiarity is. The book attempts to break free ... More

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Exa... More

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. It brings together new work by twenty-four of the best contemporary scholars who are pushing forward the boundaries of scholarship on early modern women... More