This text offers a unique combination of British, European, American and Post-Colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. In the second edition, there is an increased focus on questions of gender and identity and on recent debates, such as 'Literature and Nation' and 'Literature and Value'.

Covers words from various English-speaking areas. This pictorially illustrated dictionary features mores that 187,000 definitions and over 4,000 photographs and artworks. It is suitable as a reference for families, schoolchildren, and students of English as a foreign language.

Studying the coming of reform in the 16th century, this book argues for a comparative understanding of this crucial dimension of British and Irish history. Presenting an examination of political choices, of ecclesiastical structures, and of individual religious attitudes, it seeks to explain the success or failure of Protestantism in the islands.

A major investigation of the English Reformation, based primarily on original research in the south-west.

Combines reassessment of familiar debates and topics with introductions to fresh historiographical concerns: religious life before the Reformation; the early evangelical movement; meanings of 'puritanism' and 'catholicism' in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and, the nature of religious 'conformity'.

Not only did religion permeate every aspect of daily life but it affords the only discourse in which we hear an extraordinary range of voices, from housewives to queens, from shoemakers to bishops. John King's excellent and timely collection of primary documents enables us once again to hear their voices. --Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania