Bücher der Reihe Handbooks of English and American Studies

This handbook offers students and researchers compact orientation in their study of intermedial phenomena in Anglophone literary texts and cultures by introducing them to current academic debates, theoretical concepts and methodologies. By combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring, it introduces students and scholars alike to a vast field of research which encompasses concepts such as intermediality, multi- and plurimediality, intermedial reference, transmediality, ekphrasis, as well as related concepts such as visual culture, remediation, adaptation, and multimodality, which are all discussed in connection with literary examples. Hence each of the 30 contributions spans both a theoretical approach and concrete analysis of literary texts from different centuries and different Anglophone cultures.

Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. This volume maps some of the most important developments within contemporary Ecocriticism from a variety of different angles, approaches, areas, and perspectives.

Transatlantic literary studies investigates the close links, refractions and interferences between North American, British and Irish cultural production. This book brings together articles on the central concepts and topics, such as literary movements, periods, genres, authors, media, and reception histories, which have shaped this field.

This handbook serves as a reference for both students and scholars, introducing recent debates and developments in early modern studies. Using new theoretical perspectives and methodological tools, the volume offers close readings of canonical and less well-known texts from all significant genres between c. 1480 and 1660. The book will be of interest to those wishing to expand their knowledge of the early modern period beyond Shakespeare.

This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to nineteenth-century American novels in the light of current critical debates. It provides an overview of key historical and critical frameworks, including slavery, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, sentimentalism, the gothic, realism and naturalism. Furthermore, 22 core American novels are discussed in detail.