Blackwell Series

In this new series major critics make timely interventions to address important concepts and subjects, including topics as diverse as, for example: Culture, Race, Religion, History, Society, Geography, Literature, Literary Theory, Shakespeare, Cinema, and Modernism. Written accessibly and with verve and spirit, these books follow no uniform prescription but set out to engage and challenge the broadest range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates, university teachers and general readers – all those, in short, interested in ongoing debates and controversies in the humanities and social sciences.

Published:

The Idea of Culture Terry Eagleton

The Future of Christianity Alister E. McGrath

Reading After Theory Valentine Cunningham

21st -Century Modernism Marjorie Perloff

The Future of Theory Jean-Michel Rabaté

True Religion Graham Ward

Inventing Popular Culture John Storey

The Idea of Latin America Walter D. Mignolo

Myths for the Masses Hanno Hardt

The Rhetoric of RHETORIC Wayne C. Booth

When Faiths Collide Martin E. Marty

The Future of War Christopher Coker

The Future of Environmental Criticism Lawrence Buell

The Future of Society William Outhwaite

Provoking Democracy Caroline Levine

The Idea of English Ethnicity Robert Young

Rescuing the Bible Roland Boer

Living with Theory Vincent B. Leitch

Our Victorian Education Dinah Birch

Uses of Literature Rita Felski

The State of the Novel: Britain and Beyond Dominic Head

In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century Daniel R. Schwarz

Under Contract:

The Future of Critical Practice Catherine Belsey

The Death of the Book David Kastan

Why American Literature? Caroline Levander

The Shakespeare Phenomenon Bruce Smith

The Future of Feminism Michelle Le Doeuff

The Idea of Black Culture Hortense Spillers