Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designe

Key Concepts in Literary Theory presents the student of literary and critical studies with a broad range of accessible, precise and authoritative definitions of

Presents an A-to-Z reference to the writers and literature completed during the Renaissance.

The volume provides readers with a clear introduction to English Renaissance literary texts. Concise but detailed entries are alphabetically arranged, providing

This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben,