In a lively chronological narrative, this new guide situates original readings of authors and texts within the literary, historical and socio-cultural contexts of their production and charts the mutations of printing and publishing, the growth of literacy and the changing nature of the reading public. Writers and writings relegated to the margins of the canon are reassessed. New directions in contemporary thought, women's writing and Francophone literature are a feature, together with important concepts of contemporary critical theory.
- ISBN10 0333428536
- ISBN13 9780333428535
- Publish Date 9 July 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 June 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 376
- Language English