Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism

This review of the critical reception of Old English Literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts, surveying the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline. It examines notable works and authors from the period, including Beowulf, the Venerable Bede, heroic poems, and devotional literature. The discussion reinforces key perspectives with...

This guide looks at how The Victorian Novel has been read over the past hundred years. Unlike other critical guides, it not only provides students with examples of significant strands of criticism, but also helps them to make sense of these articles and extracts by means of a narrative and critical framework. The novelists referred to are the acknowledged great...