Description: "Companions to literary periods, genres, concepts or even individual authors might differ slightly in terms of what their contributors have to say but in all other respects they follow a prescribed formula. The first team of Romantic poets or Renaissance dramatists has already been chosen, with some slight controversy surrounding those who deserve to be on the bench, as it were. The menu of sub-categories of literary theory is a given, as is the list of main texts and themes that determine the ways we research and teach major authors"--
Review Quotes:
"With this astounding project and a joint effort of editors and scholars, the companion is of great help for students and scholars in need of an introduction to certain authors and a comprehensive view of the contemporary British and Irish literature." - Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4 (2):144-49