(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This widely adopted critical edition presents the 1974 text of the play along with critical essays that read Hamlet from a variety of contemporary perspectives. With four essays new to this second edition the text is complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms.

(Paperback)

Gulliver's Travels remains one of the most popular and widely-studied of literary classics. This edition reprints an authoritative text together with five newly-commissioned essays designed to introduce the text to students from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives.

(Paperback)

A student edition of Thomas Hardy's text, together with five contemporary theoretical readings representing a variety of approaches. In addition, the biographical and historical context for the work is outlined and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms provided.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This revision of a widely adopted critical edition presents the 1969 Seyersted text of Kate Chopin's novel along with critical essays that introduce students to The Awakening from the perspectives of feminism, new historicism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and cultural studies.

(Paperback)

This edition reprints the 1798 and 1817 texts along with critical essays that read "The Rime" from five contemporary critical perspectives: reader response; Marxist; psychoanalytic; deconstructionist; and new historical. An additional essay demonstrates how these various approaches can be combined.

(Paperback)

This edition of Chaucer's classic tale includes a lengthy introduction to the biographical and historical context as well as five critical essays representing a variety of contemporary critical approaches and a glossary of theoretical and critical terms.

(Paperback)

This edition of a literary work reprints the text together with five essays that approach the work from five contemporary critical perspectives: cultural studies, Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist and psychoanalytic. The editorial apparatus introduces students to both the text and the critical perspectives presented.