Publisher's Synopsis
This edition has been expanded to make it more relevant to the needs of today's students, offering a comprehensive guide to English poetry, drama and the novel. It also includes expanded essays on post-colonial literature and 20th-century literature and a wide variety of new entries, for example - on women's poetry, discourse, contradiction, the subject and the text. In addition, there is an extensive and revised guide to modern critical theory. John Peck and Martin Coyle are the series editors both of the "How to Study Literature" series and the "New Casebooks" series.
