The study of English literature in the early twenty-first century
is host to an exhilarating range of critical approaches, theories
and historical perspectives. ‘English’ ranges from traditional
modes of study such as Shakespeare and Romanticism to popular
interest in national and area literatures such as the United States,
Ireland and the Caribbean. The subject also spans a diverse array of
genres from tragedy to cyberpunk, incorporates such hybrid fields
of study as Asian American literature, black British literature, creative
writing and literary adaptations, and remains eclectic in its
methodology.
Such diversity is cause for both celebration and consternation.
English is varied enough to promise enrichment and enjoyment for
all kinds of readers and to challenge preconceptions about what
the study of literature might involve. But how are readers to navigate
their way through such literary and cultural diversity? And
how are students to make sense of the various literary categories
and periodisations, such as modernism and the Renaissance, or the
proliferating theories of literature, from feminism and marxism to
queer theory and eco-criticism? The Edinburgh Critical Guides
to Literature series reflects the challenges and pluralities of English
today, but at the same time it offers readers clear and accessible
routes through the texts, contexts, genres, historical periods and
debates within the subject.

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