This new series offers the student thorough and lively introductions to literary periods, movements, and, in some instances, authors and genres, from Anglo‐Saxon to the Postmodern. Each volume is written by a leading specialist to be invitingly accessible and informative. Chapters are devoted to the coverage of cultural context, the provision of brief but detailed biographical essays on the authors concerned, critical coverage of key works, and surveys of themes and topics, together with bibliographies of selected further reading. Students new to a period of study or to a period genre will discover all they need to know to orientate and ground themselves in their studies, in volumes that are as stimulating to read as they are convenient to use.
Published
The Science Fiction Handbook
M. Keith Booker and Anne‐Marie Thomas
The Seventeenth‐Century Literature Handbook
Marshall Grossman
The Twentieth‐Century American Fiction Handbook
Christopher MacGowan
The British and Irish Short Story Handbook
David Malcolm
The Crime Fiction Handbook
Peter Messent
The Literary Theory Handbook, second edition
Gregory Castle
The Anglo‐Saxon Literature Handbook
Mark C. Amodio
The American Short Story Handbook
James Nagel
The Romantic Poetry Handbook
Michael O’Neill and Madeleine Callaghan