Literary Reference Works

This critical, annotated essay is followed by appendices on painters in French fiction and selected paintings by them. A descriptive bibliography i...

This collection highlights the contributions of women writers, editors and critics to periodical culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

Celebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and national traditions, this collection of essays ex...

Maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect with the study of literature This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference wo...

Literature from the 'political' 1930s has often been read in contrast to the 'aesthetic' 1920s. This collection suggests a different approach. Draw...

The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and compa...

A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but h...

The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive place in both the popular and the historical imagination. While few might disagree ...

'Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion' R. South 'If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignora...