Product Description: Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: - Debates around critical theory - The role of history and context - The links between creativity and criticism - The relationship between author, reader and text...read more

Product Description: Adapting Detective Fiction is a study of specific instances of adaptation, with close readings of both the originating sources and adapted texts. But it is also more than this. It is a study of the politics of representation in the last decades of the twentieth century, and the role television detective fiction plays in this...read more

Product Description: 'My Dad the Crab' is a novel for younger readers about a 9-year-old boy called Alex Wilson who just can't help finding mysteries in every place he looks. Little does Alex realise, when he begins investigating why his Nan has been crying, that the most important mystery of his life is only just beginning...read more

Product Description: This collection focuses on the formations of Irish national identity evident within 19th century British culture and on the ways in which conceptions of Irishness were related to an understanding of a distinctly English character of British literature. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this new study of George Eliot's fiction, textual attempts to imagine a coherent and unified national past are seen as producing a contradictory vision of Englishness. It is a historiographical national identity, constructed in the image of predominant, and conflicting, trends in the Victorian writing of history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)