Literature Compass

Edited by:
Peter Brown

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Unique in both range and approach, Literature Compass is an online-only journal publishing peer-reviewed survey articles of the most important research and current thinking from across the entire discipline. Literature Compass features a new kind of core content: survey articles forgeround important trends while viewpoint articles challenge the received wisdom. Generating a strong sense of dialogue and engagement, Literature Compass gives desktop access to the driving ideas, current issues and controversies that enliven the discipline and fuel literary research, providing an ideal entry point for the non-specialist.

Literature Compass provides expert coverage of every literary period within nine sections, each edited by distinguished specialists. 
American | Medieval | Renaissance | Shakespeare | Seventeenth Century | Romanticism | Eighteenth Century | The Victorians | Twentieth Century

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TopNews and Announcements

Visit the Literature Compass Blog, with contributions from Compass editors and editorial board members.

Virtual Issues
Virgina Woolf Studies: A Snapshot - click here to access
Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? - click here to access
Race and Racism - click here to access
Globalization - click here to access
Violence and Conflict - click here to access
Gender - click here to access
Modern Book History - click here to access

Literature Compass Teaching Guides Written by the authors of selected Literature Compass articles, these guides offer a range of ideas to help inspire students, including focus questions, suggested reading, useful links and sample syllabi.

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TopHighlights

Current General Trends in Beowulf Studies
John Hill

What are "Things" Saying in Renaissance Studies?
Julian Yates

Film as the New Shakespeare and Film on Shakespeare: Reversing the Shakespeare/Film Trajectory
Deborah Cartmell

Rethinking Women and Property in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Pamela Hammons

Defoe as a Biographical Subject
Max Novak

Writing Revolution: British Literature and the French Revolution Crisis, a Review of Recent Scholarship
M.O. Grenby

Recent Hardy Criticism
Ralph Pite

Contemporary Approaches to the Literature of the First World War: A Critical Survey
Joanna Scutts

Class and Antebellum American Literature
Andrew Lawson

TopEndorsements

"The Literature Compass Journal features essays by some of the discipline's most prominent scholars - Jerome McGann, Joseph Bristow, Lyn Pykett, Florence Boos - yet also opens space for the innovative work of emergent scholars.  Because production of articles is swift, the journal's refereed publications are especially timely.  And because the characteristic tone of articles is lively, engaged, and provocative, the journal can be read both for instruction and delight."
Linda Hughes, Texas Christian University, U.S.A.

"Literature Compass steers faculty and students through the changing currents of American, English and postcolonial literature.  Guided by a team of internationally renowned scholars, it is the ideal starting point for research, teaching, and student projects.  The original articles and recommended reading lists keep you abreast of the current thinking the subject community worldwide."
Peter Brown, University of Kent, U.K.

"Blackwell's Literature Compass Journal provides an admirable array of articles, from useful overviews to contentious interventions, in an easy-to-access format.  In my own field of the contemporary, Compass Journals has a world-wide reach, treating anglophone writing from across the globe in addition to twentieth-century British literature."
Susanne Keen, Washington and Lee University, U.S.A. 

I like the aesthetic look of Literature Compass and find the content stimulating, diverse and informative. It is also easy to use…I'm thrilled to be able to access so much good writing on subjects that I am passionate about, and keep up with current trends which will help me find direction in my own studies. M Milich, Swinburne University

Literature Compass really makes good use of the digital medium, providing a very accessible resource, which is supported by substantial and useful articles…it is a thoroughly well-structured site, which offers easy access to insightful articles that offer thought-provoking accounts of the present state of literary scholarship. 
A Mandal, Cardiff University