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The Cambridge Companions to Literature Series

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells

This book offers students and teachers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare’s work.

Binding: Paperback | Also available as Hardback | Bibliographic information: ISBN: 0521658810 | More details

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The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature

Elizabeth Webby

This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of ‘Australian literature’.

Binding: Paperback | Also available as Hardback | Bibliographic information: 229 x 154 mm 352pp 0.508kg | ISBN: 0521658438 | Published September 2000 | More details


The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

Deirdre David

In the Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins. Contributors engage with topics such as industrial culture, religion, science, sexuality and race. The Companion includes a chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Binding: Paperback | Also available as Hardback | Bibliographic information: 287pp | ISBN: 0521646197 | Published November | More details

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The Cambridge Companion to Keats

Susan J. Wolfson

Specially commissioned essays by leading scholars discuss Keats’s work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats’s life in London’s intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; and the relation of his poetry to the visual arts.

Binding: Paperback | Also available as Hardback | Bibliographic information: ISBN: 052165839X | Published 2001 | More details


The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

John Sitter

This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. Specially-commissioned essays, supported by guides to further reading, avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh, exploring such large poetic themes as nature, the city, politics, gender and dreams.

Binding: Paperback | Also available as Hardback | Bibliographic information: ISBN: 0521658853 | Published April 2001 | More details

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The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

George Levine

This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot’s writing. With its supplementary material, including a chronology and a guide to further reading, this Companion is an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike.

Binding: Paperback | Also available as Hardback | Bibliographic information: ISBN: 052166473X | Published April 2001 | More details


The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence

Anne Fernihough

The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence offers a series of new perspectives on one of the most important and controversial writers of the twentieth century. These essays offer diverse and stimulating readings of Lawrence’s major novels, short stories, poetry and plays.

Binding: Paperback | Also available as Hardback | Bibliographic information: ISBN: 052162617X | Published – available from May 2001 | More details

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