Best British & Irish Literary Criticism Books
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1. Princeton Review AP English Literature & Composition Prep, 2021: Practice Tests + Complete Content Review + Strategies & Techniques (College Test Preparation)
Author: by The Princeton Review
Published at: Princeton Review; Illustrated edition (August 4, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0525569534
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO HELP SCORE A PERFECT 5now with 33% more practice than previous editions! Ace the 2021 AP English Literature & Composition Exam with The Princeton Review’s comprehensive study guide. Includes 3 full-length practice tests, thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every section, and access to online extras.
Techniques That Actually Work. Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harderEverything You Need to Know to Help Achieve a High Score.
Comprehensive coverage of all test topics Up-to-date information on the 2021 course & exam Engaging activities to help you critically assess your progress Access to study plans, helpful pre-college information, and more via your online Student ToolsPractice Your Way to Excellence. 3 full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations Practice drills for poetry and prose passages Sample essays with tips to help you effectively plan and organize your own writing on the day of the exam
2. The Atlas of Middle-Earth (Revised Edition)
Author: by Karen Wynn Fonstad
Published at: Houghton Mifflin; Revised, Subsequent edition (April 10, 1991)
ISBN: 978-0618126996
A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources.
Also available is an ebook featuring exciting, teachable core selections of some of the very best of English literature from the print anthology. For more information on this digital offering, including its Table of Contents, visit the ebook page here.
4. The Norton Anthology of English Literature
Author: by Stephen Greenblatt
Published at: W. W. Norton & Company; Tenth edition (June 11, 2018)
ISBN: 978-0393603132
A responsive, refreshed, and media-rich revision of the best-selling anthology in the field The most trusted anthology for complete works and helpful editorial apparatus. The Tenth Edition supports survey and period courses with NEW complete major works, NEW contemporary writers, and dynamic and easy-to-access digital resources.
Also available is an ebook featuring exciting, teachable core selections of some of the very best of English literature from the print anthology. For more information on this digital offering, including its Table of Contents, visit the ebook page here.
5. Pride and Prejudice
Author: by Jane Austen
Published at: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 15, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1503290563
Austen’s most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813.
The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.
Page 2 of a letter from Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra (11 June 1799) in which she first mentions Pride and Prejudice, using its working title First Impressions. Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet’s five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood.
6. Frankenstein (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: by Mary Shelley
Published at: W. W. Norton & Company; Second edition (February 29, 2012)
ISBN: 978-0393927931
The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a Second Edition. Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley’s finest work. This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author.
The text is that of the 1818 first edition, published in three volumes by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and Jones. It is accompanied by an expansive new preface, explanatory annotations, a map of Geneva and its environs, and seven illustrations, five of them new to the Second Edition.
Context is provided in three supporting sections: Circumstance, Influence, Composition, Revision, Reception, Impact, Adaptation, and Sources, Influences, Analogues. Among the Second Edition’s new inclusions are historical-cultural studies by Susan Tyler Hitchcock, William St. Clair, and Elizabeth Young; Chris Baldrick on the novel’s reception; and David Pirie on the novel’s many film adaptations.
7. Romeo and Juliet (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Cambridge University Press; 4th Revised ed. edition (January 20, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1107615403
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.
Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the play’, ‘Characters’ and ‘Themes’ features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Shakespeare.
Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ from around the world.
8. Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation, with Notes and Introduction
Author: by Brian P. Copenhaver
Published at: Cambridge University Press; Reprint edition (October 12, 1995)
ISBN: 978-0521425438
The Hermetica are a body of mystical texts written in late antiquity, but believed during the Renaissance (when they became well known) to be much older. Their supposed author, a mythical figure named Hermes Trismegistus, was thought to be a contemporary of Moses.
The Hermetic philosophy was regarded as an ancient theology, parallel to the revealed wisdom of the Bible, supporting Biblical revelation and culminating in the Platonic philosophical tradition. This new translation is the only English version based on reliable texts, and Professor Copenhaver’s introduction and notes make this accessible and up-to-date edition an indispensable resource to scholars.
9. Macbeth (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Author: by William Shakespeare
Published at: Cambridge University Press; 3rd Revised ed. edition (January 20, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1107615496
An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare’s imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare’s love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre.
Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive ‘Stagecraft’, ‘Write about it’, ‘Language in the play’, ‘Characters’ and ‘Themes’ features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for ‘Macbeth’ and Shakespeare.
Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of ‘Macbeth’ from around the world.
10. Dracula
Author: by Bram Stoker
Published at: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; null edition (January 24, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1503261389
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. Bram Stoker, DraculaDracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations.
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11. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
Author: by Vivian Gornick
Published at: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (October 11, 2002)
ISBN: 978-0374528584
A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom.
In a story or a novel the “I” who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that the narrator is speaking truth. How does one pull from one’s own boring, agitated self the truth-speaker who will tell the story a personal narrative needs to tell?
That is the question The Situation and the Story asks-and answers. Taking us on a reading tour of some of the best memoirs and essays of the past hundred years, Gornick traces the changing idea of self that has dominated the century, and demonstrates the enduring truth-speaker to be found in the work of writers as diverse as Edmund Gosse, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, or Marguerite Duras.
This book, which grew out of fifteen years teaching in MFA programs, is itself a model of the lucid inteligence that has made Gornick one of our most admired writers of ninfiction. In it, she teaches us to write by teaching us how to read: how to recognize truth when we hear it in the writing of others and in our own.
12. Wuthering Heights
Author: by Emily Bronte
Published at: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 4, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1505313499
Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront’s first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Bront died the following year, aged 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte’s novel, Jane Eyre.
After Emily’s death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Wuthering Heights is the name of the farmhouse where the story unfolds. The book’s core theme is the destructive effect of jealousy and vengefulness both on the jealous or vengeful individuals and on their communities.
13. Pride and Prejudice (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: by Jane Austen
Published at: W. W. Norton & Company; Fourth edition (June 1, 2016)
ISBN: 978-0393264883
The Norton Critical Edition of Pride and Prejudice has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to Austen’s most widely read novel. The text is that of the 1813 first edition, accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory annotations. This Norton Critical Edition also includes: Biographical portraits of Austen by members of her family and, new to the Fourth Edition, those by Jon Spence (Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things).
Fourteen critical essays, eleven of them new to the Fourth Edition, reflecting the finest current scholarship. Contributors include Janet Todd, Andrew Elfenbein, Felicia Bonaparte, and Tiffany Potter, among others. Writers on Austena new section of brief comments by Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and others.
A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.
14. Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
Author: by Don Gifford
Published at: University of California Press; First Edition, 20th Anniversary (January 14, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0520253971
Don Gifford’s annotations to Joyce’s great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of Ulysses. The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of his literary method.
The annotations in this volume illuminate details which are not in the public realm for most of us. The annotations gloss place names, define slang terms, give capsule histories of institutions and political and cultural movements and figures, supply bits of local and Irish legend and lore, explain religious nomenclature and practices, trace literary allusions and references to other cultures.
Annotations are keyed not only to the reading text of the critical edition of Ulysses, but to the standard 1961 Random House edition, and the current Modern Library and Vintage texts.
15. Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
Author: by Marta McDowell
Published at: Timber Press; First Edition (November 5, 2013)
ISBN: 978-1604693638
A New York Times Bestseller There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her charactersPeter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the restexist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens.
In Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, bestselling author Marta McDowell explores the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and shows how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener’s biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her.
Next, follow Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler’s guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter’s gardens today.
16. Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse
Author: by Professor Anahid Nersessian
Published at: University of Chicago Press; First edition (February 10, 2021)
ISBN: 978-0226762678
When I say this book is a love story, I mean it is about things that cannot be gotten overlike this world, and some of the people in it. In 1819, the poet John Keats wrote six poems that would become known as the Great Odes.
Some of themOde to a Nightingale, To Autumnare among the most celebrated poems in the English language. Anahid Nersessian here collects and elucidates each of the odes and offers a meditative, personal essay in response to each, revealing why these poems still have so much to say to us, especially in a time of ongoing political crisis.
Her Keats is an unflinching antagonist of modern lifeof capitalism, of the British Empire, of the destruction of the planetas well as a passionate idealist for whom every poem is a love poem. The book emerges from Nersessian’s lifelong attachment to Keats’s poetry; but more, it is a love story: between me and Keats, and not just Keats.
Drawing on experiences from her own life, Nersessian celebrates Keats even as she grieves him and counts her own lossesand Nersessian, like Keats, has a passionate awareness of the reality of human suffering, but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world, at least, could still be saved.
