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Routledge Guides to Literature


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Routledge Guides to Literature are clear introductions to authors and texts most frequently studied by undergraduate students of literature. Each book explores texts, contexts and criticism, highlighting the critical views and contextual factors that students must consider in advanced studies of literary works.
Each guide presents a variety of approaches and interpretations, encouraging readers to think critically about 'standard' views and to make independent readings of literary texts. Alongside general guides to texts and authors, the series includes 'sourcebooks', which incorporate extracts from key contextual and critical materials as well as annotated passages from the primary text.
Some books in this series were originally published in the Routledge Literary Sourcebook series, edited by Duncan Wu, or the Complete Critical Guide to English Literature series, edited by Richard Bradford and Jan Jedrzjewski.

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W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden

1st Edition

By Tony Sharpe
October 15, 2007

As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been used in musical scores and quoted in Hollywood films. This guide to Auden’s compelling work ...

Nadine Gordimer's July's People A Routledge Study Guide

Nadine Gordimer's July's People: A Routledge Study Guide

1st Edition

By Brendon Nicholls
October 19, 2010

Nadine Gordimer is one of the most important writers to emerge in the twentieth century. Her anti-Apartheid novel July's People (1981) is a powerful example of resistance writing and continues even now to unsettle easy assumptions about issues of power, race, gender and identity. This guide to ...

John Milton

John Milton

1st Edition

By Richard Bradford
May 04, 2001

There is a crying need for an accessible, comprehensive guide to John Milton for the thousands of students who make their way through his poetry every year on literary survey and seventeenth century literature courses. Where many previous guides have dragged their way through Paradise Lost, Richard...

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

1st Edition

By Tim Middleton
October 16, 2006

The popular yet complex work of Joseph Conrad has attracted much critical attention over the years, from the perspectives of postcolonial, modernist, cultural and gender studies. This guide to his compelling work presents: an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of ...

Martin Amis

Martin Amis

1st Edition

By Brian Finney
July 01, 2008

Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential of contemporary British writers. This guide to Amis's diverse and often controversial work offers: an accessible introduction...

Robert Browning

Robert Browning

1st Edition

By Stefan Hawlin
October 26, 2001

Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work....

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

1st Edition

By Pelagia Goulimari
July 22, 2011

Toni Morrison's visionary explorations of freedom and identity, self and community, against the backdrop of African American history have established her as one of the foremost novelists of her time; an artist whose seriousness of purpose and imaginative power have earned her both widespread ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins

1st Edition

By Angus Easson
January 12, 2011

Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writers of the Victorian period. Experimental and idiosyncratic, his work remains important for any student of nineteenth-century literature and culture. This guide to Hopkins’ life and work offers: a detailed account of Hopkins life and ...

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness A Routledge Study Guide

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Routledge Study Guide

1st Edition

By D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke
November 05, 2007

Joseph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, has fascinated critics and readers alike, engaging them in highly controversial debate as it deals with fundamental issues of good and evil, civilisation, race, love and heroism. This classic tale transcends the boundaries of time and place and has ...

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro

1st Edition

By Wai-chew Sim
November 09, 2009

Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times. In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents: a biographical survey of ...

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

1st Edition

By Terry Gifford
January 12, 2009

For the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted Hughes. This accessible guide to Hughes’ writing provides a rich exploration of the complete range of his works. In this volume, Terry Gifford...

George Eliot

George Eliot

1st Edition

By Jan Jedrzejewski
June 19, 2007

As a woman in an illegal marriage, publishing under a male pseudonym, George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period. Today she is considered a key figure for women’s writing and her novels, including The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch, are commonly...

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