Literary Reference Works

Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and politica...

This brand-new edition analyzes the use of place in over 1,300 literary works. Joining the Masterplots family of literary reference, it completes t...

This volume provides a wide and varied account of the history of the book during the medieval and early modern period, up to the Union of the Parli...

Have you ever wished you could tell your favourite books just what they mean to you? Or wanted to give a piece of your mind to the 'must-read' book...

Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottis...

This comprehensive edition combines the characters profiled in the first three editions of Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (1963, 1990, 1998) alo...

Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster is a memoir of a twenty-first-century literary pilgrimage to retrace the famous eighteenth-century Scottis...

Masterplots was the first reference set published by Salem Press in 1949 and is the original work of literary reference offering plot summaries. Ma...

All the original author essays were evaluated for their currency, and 145 of them were given substantial revision, in some cases by the original co...

All the original author essays were evaluated for their currency, and 145 of them were given substantial revision, in some cases by the original co...

All the original author essays were evaluated for their currency, and 145 of them were given substantial revision, in some cases by the original co...

Literary theory has now become integral to how we produce literary criticism. When critics write about a text, they no longer think just about the ...