Literary Reference Works

In the Andes, indigenous knowledge systems based on the relationships between different beings, both earthly and heavenly, animal and plant, have b...

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to refle...

The superheroes from DC and Marvel comics are some of the most iconic characters in popular culture today. But how do these figures idealize certai...

Professor Quinones describes significant stages in the development of literary Modernism, redefining the period as extending from about 1900 to 194...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes se...

African American literature in the years between 1800 and 1830 emerged from significant transitions in the cultural, technological, and political c...

This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnati...

Now in its 32nd edition, this title is a comprehensive and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations ...

Now in its 31st edition, this title is a comprehensive and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations ...

Poetry Matters explores poetry written by women from the United States and Canada, which documents the social and political turmoil of the early tw...

In this provocative study, Michael Soto examines African American cultural forms through the lens of census history to tell the story of how U.S. o...

Now in its 33rd edition, this title is a comprehensive and practical source of biographical information on the key personalities and organizations ...

Chasing after a family secret--a curious silence surrounding a long-lost ancestor--led the author on a pilgrimage through the landscape, history an...

Found in scores of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American narratives, the action-adventure heroine leaves the domestic space to pursue an inde...