This acclaimed series is designed to give practical help to students beginning to tackle recent developments in English, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. The books in the series demonstrate and encourage a questioning engagement with the new; give essential information about the context and history of each topic covered; and show how to develop a practice which is up-to-date and informed by...
This innovative series reflects the breadth and diversity of writing over the last thirty years, and provides critical evaluations of established, emerging and critically neglected writers â mixing the canonical with the unexpected. It explores notions of the contemporary and analyses current and developing modes of representation with a focus on individual writers and their work. The challenge...
Contemporary British Novelists offers readers critical introductions to some of the most exciting and challenging writing of recent years. Through detailed analysis of their work, volumes in the series present lucid interpretations of authors who have sought to capture the sensibilities of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Informed, but not dominated, by...
Contemporary World Writers is an innovative series of authoritative introductions to a range of culturally diverse contemporary writers from outside Britain and the United States or from âminorityâ backgrounds within Britain or the United States. In addition to providing comprehensive general introductions, books in the series also argue stimulating original theses related to contemporary...
Critical editions of key Spanish language texts, with introduction, notes and vocabulary in English. Key titles La casa de Bernada Alba â Lorca (edited by Herbert Ramsden) Bodas de Sangre - Lorca (edited by Herbert Ramsden) Requiem por un Campesino espanol Ramon J Sender (edited by Patricia McDermott)
Each volume in this series contains new essays on the many forms assumed by â as well as the most important themes in â the ever-expanding range of international âGothicâ fictions from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Launched by leading members of the International Gothic Association (IGA) and some editors and advisory board members of its journal, Gothic Studies, this series...
Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century seeks to make a significant intervention into the critical narratives that dominate conventional and established understandings of nineteenth-century literature. Informed by the latest developments in criticism and theory the series provides a focus for how texts from the long nineteenth century, and more recent...
Lund University Press publishes high-quality and rigorously peer-reviewed books in the Humanities, Theology and Social Sciences. The press was set up in 2015 to bring world-wide exposure to important research produced at Lund University. In collaboration with Manchester University Press, who produce, market and sell our books, Lund University Press publishes a couple of volumes a year. All are in...
The series publishes monographs and essay collections comprising new research informed by current critical methodologies on the literary cultures of the Global Middle Ages. We are interested in all periods, from the early Middle Ages through to the late, and we include post-medieval engagements with and representations of the medieval period (or âmedievalismâ). âLiteratureâ is taken in a...
Multicultural Textualities is a timely series that explores literary and cultural texts emerging from contexts in which majority/minority power dynamics operate. Scholars are invited to develop interdisciplinary critiques on cultural texts in the light of debates about multiculturalism, cultural pluralism, racial difference, decolonization, secularism, and social conflict. The core aim of this...
"The Revels Plays have a earned a well-deserved reputation for producing exemplary critical editions of non-Shakespearean plays, prepared according to high scholarly standards and aimed at an audience of advanced students and literary professionals." ...
For over fifty years The Revels Plays has provided for students of early modern English drama carefully edited texts of major and lesser-known plays of the period. The Revels Plays Companion Library aims to complement and expand upon the work of The Revels Plays through pioneering new research into the background, context, and afterlives of these plays and their...
Based on the highly respected Revels Plays, which provide a wide range of scholarly critical editions of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, the Revels Student Editions offer readable and competitively priced introductions, text and commentary designed to distil the erudition and insights of the Revels Plays, while focusing on matters of clarity and interpretation. These editions are aimed at...
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies promotes interdisciplinary work on the period c.1603â1815, covering all aspects of the literature, culture and history of the British Isles, colonial North America and the early United States, other British colonies and their global connections. The series welcomes academic monographs, as well as collective volumes of essays that combine theoretical...
Anthony Burgess (1917â1993) was one of the most prominent novelists and critics of the twentieth century, but for many years much of his work has been unavailable. A graduate of Manchester University, he wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, and two volumes of autobiography. Pursuing a parallel career as a classical composer, he wrote a symphony, a piano concerto, a violin...
The Manchester Spenser is a monograph and text series devoted to historical and textual approaches to Edmund Spenser â to his life, times, places, works and contemporaries. ...
This series offers a space for those people who practise theatre to have a dialogue with those who think and write about it. The series has a flexible format that refocuses the analysis and documentation of performance. It provides, presents and represents material which is written by those who make or create performance history, and offers access to theatre documents, different methodologies and...
Twenty-First Century Perspectives offers a series of edited collections that examine the ways in which contemporary writers have responded to global challenges, as a clamorous presence that has served to reignite the role of writer as public intellectual and the literary text as an agent of change. The series captures how contemporary literatures are producing striking works of political and...
This series, Women, Theatre and Performance, has its origins in the work of a number of feminist theatre academics from the 1980s and 1990s â a period when interest burgeoned in the part that women have played in theatre over the centuries. That interest was in its turn the daughter of the âSecond Waveâ womenâs movement, the womenâs theatre movement and the womenâs history movement...