Table of Contents

1. Introduction Literature Criticism 2. Literature and History 3. Poetry 4. Drama 5. The Novel 6. Criticism 7. Production and Reception 8. Contexts 9. Perspectives 10. Afterword: W(h)ither 'English'? Index

About the Author

Martin Coyle, Peter Garside, Malcolm Kelsall, John Peck

Reviews

`Censorship, aestheticism, African literature, and current developments in criticism. All this and more is in Routledge's stimulating Encyclopedia ... It is primarily an accessible review of critics' approaches to the study of literature, past and present. Essays by 90 hands discuss the many different ways of evaluating literature. This guarantees a certain amount of ferment in the reader. No sooner is one persuaded that one approach is valuable when the next essay presents an attractive alternative.' - Library Association Record

`The stimulating essays, which exhibit and criticize literature, have many powerful features.' - Review of English Studies