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Literature Handbooks  \nThis new series offers the student thorough and lively introductions to literary periods,movements,and,in some instances,authors and genres,from Anglo-Saxon to thePostmodern.Each volume is written by a leading specialist to be invitingly accessibleand informative.Chapters are devoted to the coverage of cultural context,theprovision of brief but detailed biographical essays on the authors concerned,criticalcoverage of key works,and surveys of themes and topics,together with bibliographiesof selected further reading.Students new to a period of study or to a period genre willdiscover all they need to know to orientate and ground themselves in their studies,involumes that are as stimulating to read as they are convenient to use.  \nPublished  \nThe Science Fiction Handbook  \nM.Keith Booker and Anne-Marie Thomas  \nThe Seventeenth-Century Literature HandbookMarshall Grossman  \nThe Twentieth-Century American Fiction HandbookChristopher MacGowan  \nThe British and Irish Short Story HandbookDavid Malcolm  \nThe Crime Fiction HandbookPeter Messent  \nThe Literary Theory HandbookGregory Castle  \nGREGORY CASTLELITERARYTHEORY  \nHA N D B O O K  \nWILEY Blackwell  \nWiley-Blackwell is an imprint of John Wiley &Sons,formed by the merger of Wiley's global Scientific,Technical and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing.  \nRegistered Office  \nJohn Wiley &Sons,Ltd,The Atrium,Southern Gate,Chichester,West Sussex,PO198SQ,UK  \n# Editorial Offices\n\n350 Main Street,Malden,MA 02148-5020,USA9600 Garsington Road,Oxford,OX42DQ,UKThe Atrium,Southern Gate,Chichester,West Sussex,PO198SQ,UK  \nFor details of our global editorial offices,for customer services,and for information abouthow to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website atwww.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell.  \nThe right of Gregory Castle to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordancewith the UK Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 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