Literature

As the original publisher of Matthew Arnold, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, Henry James, Thomas Hardy and W B Yeats Macmillan has, from the very beginning, been renowned for an influential literature list of the highest calibre. A commemorative facsimile of the first edition of the Golden Treasury (originally published by Macmillan in 1861 and the bestselling anthology of English verse for almost a century ) was issued in 2000 with a new foreword by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, to mark the launch of the Palgrave Macmillan imprint. The commitment to publishing high quality, cutting edge work continues today with Palgrave Macmillan's literature list attracting well-established authors, including Stephen Orgel, Julia Kristeva, Jerome McGann, Geoffrey Hartman and Catherine Belsey as well as some of the brightest scholars of the next generation.

The Literature list has a full range of publications from monographs to reference books, textbooks to scholarly editions of classic works, including seminal books such as Shakespearean Tragedy by Bradley and The Feminist Reader by Catherine Belsey. The list is aimed at undergraduates and graduate students, teachers, lecturers and academics. We publish books on individual authors, areas of criticism and time periods as well those on Cultural Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies and Creative Writing. We have number of prestigious series including the well established Casebooks and a new series Redefining British Theatre History edited by Peter Holland in association with the Huntington Library. For more information on the series please browse through the series section.

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		18th Century and 19th Century Literature 20th Century and Contemporary Literature American Literature Biography Casebooks Childrens Literature Creative Writing Critical Editions and Texts Cultural Theory Drama Early Modern Literature Gender Studies and Womens Writing Irish Literature Literary Criticism and Theory Literary History and Reference Lives and Letters Medieval Literature Poetry Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Shakespeare Study Skills World Literatures		A Directory of Shakespeare in Performance American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century Analysing Texts Anthologies of English Literature Approaches to Writing Author Chronologies Series Bedford Cultural Editions Series Breaking Feminist Waves Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism Casebooks Series Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Coleridge's Writings Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare Context and Commentary Crime Files Crime Files Critical Approaches to Children's Literature Critical Issues Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture Critics Debate Cross Currents in Religion and Culture Cultural Sociology Early Modern Cultural Studies Series Early Modern Literature in History English Dramatists Environmental Politics and Theory Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee series Global Masculinities History of British Women's Writing Insights Interviews and Recollections Language, Discourse, Society Literary Companions Literary Lives Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment MacSci Middle East Today Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Modern Dramatists New Approaches to Religion and Power New British Fiction New Casebooks New Directions in American Studies New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature New Directions in Theatre New Interpretations of Beckett in 21st C Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters Outlining Literature Palgrave Advances Palgrave Hardy Studies Palgrave Histories of Literature Palgrave Key Concepts Palgrave Key Concepts: Literature Palgrave Literary Dictionaries Palgrave Master Series Palgrave Modern Novelists Series Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law Palgrave Shakespeare Studies Palgrave Sourcebooks Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print Perspectives from Social Economics Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Readers in Cultural Criticism Reproducing Shakespeare Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories Sciences Po Series in IR and PE Shakespeare Handbooks Signs of Race Studies in American Literature Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures Studies in Literature and Religion Studies in Romanticism Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature Teaching the New English Text and Performance The Bedford Shakespeare Series The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats The Critics Debate The Dramatic Medium The History of Literature The New Middle Ages The New Urban Atlantic The RSC Shakespeare Theory in the World Transitions Women in Society: A Feminist List Women Writers Yeats Annual Yeats's 'Vision' Papers

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