The Literature Reader – Key Thinkers on Key Topics

Eighteen chapters by leading academics and practitioners on key aspects of English Literature to inform, engage and pique the interest of A Level students. A perfect overview of the subject for advanced level students, first year undergraduates and the general reader. 

• Foreword by John Mullan
• Robert Eaglestone: What is English Literature?
• Judy Simons: The Critical Essay
• Peter Barry: Reading in Context
• Michael Rosen: Poetry – A Conversation Across Time
• Emma Smith: Shakespeare and Historical Context
• Jenny Stevens: The Rise of the Novel in the 18th and 19th Centuries
• Malcolm Hebron: The Romantics
• Stephen Donovan: Modernism
• Sean McEvoy: Modern Drama in Britain and Ireland – The European Influence
• Pamela Bickley: The Novel in the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Nicolas Tredell: Declaration and Dream: American Literature 1776-2018
• Leila Kamali: Postcolonialism
• Andrew Michael Hurley: Gothic and the Supernatural
• Nathan Waddell: Dystopia 
• Christopher Pittard: Crime 
• Chris Power: The Short Story
• Nicolas Tredell: ‘Isms’ and the Critical Reader
• Andrew McCallum: Experimental Literature Past, Present and Future