Third edition
Chris Baldick
Over 1200 entries
"This dictionary's virtues and its plain-spokenness make it ... as apt to the bedside table as to the desk: Dr Baldick is a Brewer for specialized tastes" — Times Literary Supplement
The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. Now available in a new, fully updated and expanded edition, it offers readers increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction.
It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. New to this fully revised edition are recommended entry-level web links. Boasting over 1,200 entries, it is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language.
Chris Baldick is Professor of English at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He has written widely on nineteenth-century literature and is the editor of The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales.
Print edition ISBN: 9780199208272
Publishing history: First published 1990; second edition published 1996; third edition 2008
Copyright: © Chris Baldick 2001, 2004, 2008
