This edition of the bestselling guide retains the strong features of the original book; offering a comprehensive coverage of the main literary theories, further readings and bibliographies. At the same time, the new edition adds material on contemporary literary theories, such as: cultural materialism, post-colonial theory, feminist theory, black British, Afro-American, Asian, Caribbean theory, and gay, lesbian and queer theory. The book can be used in conjunction with Practising Theory and Reading Literature.
Raman Selden, editor responsable del presente volumen, fue fundador y primer director del Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies de la Universidad de Durham. Profesor en las universidades de Durham, Lancaster y el Sunderland Polytechnic, es autor, entre otras obras, de English Verse Salive, 1590-1765 (1978), Criticism and Objetivity (1984), A Readerīs Guille to Contemparary Literary Theory (1985), John Dryden: Absalant and Achitophel (1986) y Practising Theory and Reading Literature (1989).