Literary Reference Works

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and nonfiction writers, including nov...

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 6-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers b...

Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism assembles critical responses to the works of 20TH-Century authors of all sorts-novelists, poets, playwrights...

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... ...

Provides cross-disciplinary perspectives on the study of animals in humanitiesThis volume critically investigates current topics and disciplines th...

Subversive Readers explores the strategies used by readers to question authority, challenge convention, resist oppression, assert their independenc...

Common Readers casts a fascinating light on the literary experiences of ordinary people: miners in Scotland, churchgoers in Victorian London, worke...

This Companion volume offers a sweeping survey of the Bible as a work of literature and its impact on Western writing. Underscoring the sophisticat...

Clear all moorings, one-half impulse power and set course for a mare incognitum... A popular culture artifact of the New Frontier/Space Race ...

The ultimate literary bucket list. The Washington Post If theres a heaven just for readers, this is it. O, The Oprah Magazine Celebrate th...