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The Victorian Novel in
Context
Grace Moore
• Encourages
students to
make connections
across texts,
genres and
periods and
to negotiate
different critical
interpretations in
order to come to
a personal response
• Review, further reading and research
sections at the end of each part foster
active engagement with the material
• Covers major writers such as Dickens,
Gaskell and Hardy
Introducing texts, contexts and criticism,
this is a lively and up-to-date resource for
anyone studying the Victorian novel.
GRACE MOORE is Lecturer in Literary Studies at
the University of Melbourne, Australia.
UK May 2012 US July 2012
160 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781847064882 - £50.00 / $90.00
PB 9781847064899 - £16.99 / $27.95
Texts and Contexts
Continuum
Victorian Poetry in
Context
Rosie Miles
• 3-part structure
focusing on
immediate
contexts, key
texts, and wider
contexts takes
students from
background issues
through the
actual literary
texts to criticism and afterlives
• Provides opportunity to consider
Victorian Poetry in its social, cultural
and literary contexts
• Includes close readings of well-known
and less familiar Victorian poems, as
a means of modelling to students how
they might produce their own readings
Introducing texts, contexts and criticism,
Victorian Poetry in Context offers an
overview of critical approaches to several
key texts and discussion of how Victorian
poetry has remained influential in the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
ROSIE MILES is Senior Lecturer in English at the
University of Wolverhampton, UK.
UK July 2012 US September 2012
176 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9780826430557 - £50.00 / $90.00
PB 9780826437679 - £16.99 / $27.95
Texts and Contexts
Continuum
Old English Poetry in
Context
Philippa Semper
• Introduction
to the social,
cultural and
literary contexts
of Old English
poetry, including
original close
readings of a
range of texts
• Provides an
overview of key critical thinking in the
area
• Fresh look at the contents of both wellknown
and less familiar Old English
poems
This book places Old English in three
specific contexts – social, literary and
critical – and offers close readings in
response to the themes which emerge.
The guide enables readers to consider
new ideas in relation to existing critical
approaches and debates, and to see how
changing perspectives have continued to
shape our understanding of these poems.
PHILIPPA SEMPER is Lecturer in Medieval English
in the Department of English at the University
of Birmingham, UK.
UK May 2012 US August 2012
176 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781847064905 - £50.00 / $90.00
PB 9781847064912 - £16.99 / $27.95
Texts and Contexts
Continuum
English Renaissance
Tragedy in Context
Peter Holbrook
• Clear, jargon-free
introduction
• Fresh, up-to-date
and transparent
account of recent
critical discussion
of the field
• Introduction to
social, historical,
cultural, literary and critical contexts
of English Renaissance tragedy - with
close readings of key plays
This book introduces readers to the
perspectives of English Renaissance
tragedy by offering close readings of
selected famous works by dramatists
such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster,
Middleton and Ford.
PETER HOLBROOK is Senior Lecturer in English
Literature at the University of queensland,
Australia.
UK July 2012 US September 2012
176 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches
HB 9781441146755 - £50.00 / $90.00
PB 9781441188335 - £16.99 / $27.95
Texts and Contexts
Continuum
LITERARy STUDIES
Hamlet’s Dreams
David Schalkwyk
• New readings of
Hamlet by leading
South African
scholar
• Tells the story of
the ‘Robben
Island
Shakespeare’,
secretly
circulated by
prisoners (including Mandela)
• Philosophically sophisticated account of
the personal pronoun ‘I’ in relation to
selfhood and imprisonment
Schalkwyk uses the circulation of the
so-called ‘Robben Island Shakespeare’
to examine the representation and
experience of imprisonment in South
African prison memoirs and Shakespeare’s
Hamlet.
DAVID SCHALKWyK is Director of Research at
the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Professor
of English at the University of Cape Town, South
Africa.
UK September 2012 US November 2012
128 Pages 129 x 198 mm 5 x 7.75 inches
HB 9781441140333 - £45.00 / $80.00
PB 9781441129284 - £14.99 / $24.95
Shakespeare Now!
Continuum
Shakespeare and I
Edited by
William
McKenzie
and Theodora
Papadopoulou
• Innovative,
experiential
response to
literature, aiming
to inspire a new
pedagogical practice
• Individual, personal readings of
Shakespeare’s plays focus on why and
how they have such impact
• Supported by a blog encouraging
online discussion between readers of
Shakespeare
A number of the most exciting and
authoritative writers on Shakespeare
examine and scrutinize their deepest,
most personal and intimate responses to
Shakespeare’s plays and poems, to ask
themselves if and how Shakespeare has
made them the person they are.
WILLIAM MCKENzIE has taught at University
College London and King’s College London, UK.
THEODORA PAPADOPOULOU obtained her PhD at
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
UK April 2012 US June 2012
288 Pages 129 x 198 mm 5 x 7.75 inches
HB 9781441143716 - £65.00 / $120.00
PB 9781441137180 - £19.99 / $34.95
Shakespeare Now!
Continuum
LITERARy STUDIES
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