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  1. Sir Thomas Malory

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Marylyn Parins

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Laurence Sterne

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Alan B. Howes

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Thomas Hardy

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by R. G. Cox

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. EAch volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Thomas Carlyle

    The Critical Heritage

    Edited by Jules Paul Siegel

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in liteature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves....

    Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

    Edited by Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer

    This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Entropy Exhibition (Routledge Revivals)

    Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction

    By Colin Greenland

    When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as ‘New Wave’ science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in...

    Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott (Routledge Revivals)

    By Donald Davie

    First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works by the likes of Alexander Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper, this...

    Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge

  8. The Poetic Edda

    Essays on Old Norse Mythology

    Edited by Paul Acker, Carolyne Larrington

    Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks

    This collection of applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old Norse cosmography and the legends of Odin, Loki, and Thor. It also provides useful introductions that sketch the critical history of the Eddas. By applying new...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  9. Masculinity and the English Working Class

    Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

    By Ying Lee

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Wallace Stevens

    Edited by Charles Doyle

    This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge