{"product_id":"studying-english-literature-in-context-critical-readings-paperback-9781108749572","title":"Studying English Literature in Context; Critical Readings (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108749572","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStudying English Literature in Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCritical Readings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection of thirty-one essays sets literary texts in their historical contexts.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Poplawski (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108749572, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e674 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.5 x 19 x 3 cm, 1.45 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Studying English Literature in Context is a superb collection of essays by leading scholars that will foster stimulating response, reignite debate, and demand intellectual engagement by readers of representative texts from the long history of English. The authors recognise that from The Dream of the Rood's multivalence to Aphra Behn's colonial novel Oroonoko and Grace Nichols' feminist poetry, literature both contributes to, as well as reflects socio-cultural critique, linking past modes of creative expression with current conversations about form, textual ambiguity, literary resistance, and periodisation. In addition to this impressive set of critical interpretations, generous resources are provided to situate the student in the long chronology and complex range of generic, stylistic, material, and performative possibilities offered by literature. The whole volume works to ensure enhanced understanding of the significance of poetry, prose, and drama both to authors and creators and to audiences globally; as Poplawski anticipates, this book offers contextured readings, encouraging connections between eras, affect, and modalities to amplify the power of the written and spoken word.' Elaine Treharne, Stanford University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRanging from early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The thirty-one chapters draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating new readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors. Written in a lively and engaging style, by an international team of experts, these specially commissioned essays collectively represent an incisive contribution to literary studies; they will appeal to scholars, teachers and graduate and undergraduate students. The book is designed to complement Paul Poplawski's previous volume, English Literature in Context, and incorporates additional study elements designed specifically with undergraduates in mind. With an extensive chronology, a glossary of critical terms, and a study guide suggesting how students might learn from the essays in their own writing practices, this volume provides a rich and flexible resource for teaching and learning.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Paul Poplawski\u003cbr\u003e Section I. Medieval English, 500–1500: 1. Finding the dream of the rood in old English literature Emily V. Thornbury\u003cbr\u003e 2. The translator as author: The case of Geoffrey Chaucer's the Parliament of Fowls Filip Krajnik\u003cbr\u003e 3. Arthurian romance as a window onto medieval life: The Case of Ywayne and Gawayne and The Awntyrs off Arthure K. S. Whetter\u003cbr\u003e Section II: The renaissance, 1485–1660: 4. The renaissance in England: A meeting point Alessandra Petrina\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Mr Spencer's moral invention': The global horizons of early modern epic Jane Grogan\u003cbr\u003e 6. Arden of Faversham Christa Jansohn\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'A little touch of Harry in the night' – mysteries of kingship and the stage in Shakespeare's the life of king Henry the fifth Ina Habermann\u003cbr\u003e 8. Poems and contexts: The case of Henry Vaughan Robert Wilcher\u003cbr\u003e Section III: The restoration and eighteenth century, 1660–1780: 9. Periodising in context: The case of the restoration and eighteenth Century Lee Morrissey\u003cbr\u003e 10. Truth-telling and the representation of the Surinam 'Indians' in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Oddvar Holmesland\u003cbr\u003e 11. 'The pamphlet on the table': The life and adventures of sir Launcelot Greaves Richard J. Jones\u003cbr\u003e Section IV: The romantic period, 1780–1832: 12. 'Transported into asiatic scenes': Romanticism and the orient Daniel Sanjiv Roberts\u003cbr\u003e 13. Historical fiction in the romantic period: Jane Porter, Walter Scott and the sublime hero Fiona Price\u003cbr\u003e 14. Jane Austen and her publishers: Northanger Abbey and the publishing context of the early nineteenth century Katie Halsey\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'O for a life of sensations' or 'the internal and external parts': Keats and medical materialism Paul Wright\u003cbr\u003e Section V: The victorian age, 1832–1901: 16. Poetry and science in the victorian period Jordan Kistler\u003cbr\u003e 17. 'In characters of tint indelible': Life writing and legacy in Charlotte Brontë's Villette Maria Frawley\u003cbr\u003e 18. Money, narrative and representation from Dickens to Gissing Ben Moore\u003cbr\u003e 19. Reading and remediating nineteenth-century serial fiction: Closing down and opening up Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla Fionnuala Dillane\u003cbr\u003e 20. Public places, private spaces in Fin de Siècle British women's writing Sue Asbee\u003cbr\u003e Section VI: The Twentieth Century, 1901–1939: 21. D. H. Lawrence's women in Love: An anthropological reading Stefania Michelucci\u003cbr\u003e 22. The epigraph for T. S. Eliot's Marina: Classical tradition and the modern era Anna Budziak\u003cbr\u003e 23. Passing as a male critic: Mary Beton's coming of age in Virginia Woolf's a room of one's own Judith Paltin\u003cbr\u003e Section VII: The twentieth and twenty-first centuries, 1939–2020: 24. An ecocritical reading of the poetry of Ted Hughes Terry Gifford\u003cbr\u003e 25. Women publishers in the twenty-first century: Assessing their impact on new writing – and writers Catherine Riley\u003cbr\u003e 26. Crisis and community in contemporary British theatre Clare Wallace\u003cbr\u003e Section VIII: Postcolonial literature in english: 27. Complexities and concealments of eros in the African novel: Chinua Achebe's things fall apart F. Fiona Moolla\u003cbr\u003e 28. Bessie Head's feminism of everyday life Loretta Stec\u003cbr\u003e 29. The gender politics of Grace Nichols: Joy and resistance Izabel F. O. Brandao\u003cbr\u003e 30. 'The all-purpose quote': Salman Rushdie's meta-contextuality Joel Kuortti\u003cbr\u003e 31. Postcolonial literature and the world, 2017–2019: Contemporary complexities Ulla Rahbek\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: Glossary of critical terms\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Study guide: Learning from the essays\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: Essays listed by genre and theme\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001501634840,"sku":"9781108749572","price":24.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108749572i.jpg?v=1696719393","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/studying-english-literature-in-context-critical-readings-paperback-9781108749572","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}