Literary Reference Works

This study rejects the notion that Arthurian society actually presented a would-be ideal. In its place, the author offers a new and compelling way ...

While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuance...

This book focuses on a single central problem: the frequently noted similarity between Ford's protagonists, men whose peculiarly alien temperaments...

Influenced by trends in medicine, town planning and social etiquette, Madrid's middle class viewed urban growth with apprehension in the second hal...

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary Renaissance in Southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, th...

Luis de Lucena (1465-1530) was a Spanish writer whose Repeticion de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con 101 Juegos de Partido is the oldest surviving book...

W. D. Howells once wrote to his friend Mark Twain of ""the black heart's-truth, which we all know of ourselves in our hearts"" -- the dark core of ...

The distinctive and varied formal roles that a fictional society might play in a novel is the subject of this pioneering work. Langland opens with ...

Originally published in 1959, this first scholarly study of the origin and development of the concept of honor in German literature traces its role...

Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing ...

This biographical and critical study of Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (1809-1844), better known as Placido, investigates the mystery surrounding ...

This critical interpretation of the origins of modern fiction follows the transformation of the picaresque novel over four centuries through the li...

Only by isolating the particular material about the Afro-American from the body of American literature can we come to a deeper understanding and ap...

Contributors to this volume of essays on Francis Petrarch are Aldo Scaglione, Joseph G. Fucilla, Thomas G. Bergin, Maria Picchio Simonelli, Fredi C...

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Mas...

The formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states'...

Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalis...

This analysis of the novels of Henry James explores his representation of children and adolescents, reaching its conclusions directly from the text...

Exam Board: AQA Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literature ...

Mario Pei (1901-1978) was a writer, linguist, translator, and academic who wrote more than fifty books and had a distinguished career at Columbia U...

The result of a conference held to assess the state of southern literary scholarship and to suggest new directions for research, this collection in...

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Mas...

In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this na...

Meral explores the ways in which Paris constitutes an authentic literary subject and analyzes the differing responses to the city of such American ...

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This letter contains Lessing's most explicit observations on the distinction between poetry and prose as well as a unique proposal for emending Ari...

Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of...

This volume explores the intellectual background of Paradise Lost, with particular emphasis on problems of characterization. Character is fate, but...

This study examines the fictional works of the French writer Vital d'Audiguier (1565-1624), whose novels provide insight into the changes of the Fr...

In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three important co...

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators. Yet what a writer chooses to misrepresent is as telling -- perhaps even more so -- as what really hap...

This book looks at sexuality in American women's writing.American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a...

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Brown (1771-1810) was America's first professional man of letters. Brown's novels are enactments of psychological processes, tracing the murky path...

This skillfully set forth argument convincingly demonstrates that Skelton's morality Magnyfycence , one of the most important survivals of early En...

Under apartheid, black South Africans experienced severe material and social disadvantages occasioned by the government’s policies, and they had li...

A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, open...

Egan asks why autobiographers use patterns -- such as myths of paradise and paradise lost, the journey, conversion, and confession -- taken from fi...

To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and...

George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage. Completed i...

Morrison's investigation of American literature is thorough, and the extensiveness as well as the quality of the criticism influenced by early impr...

Bernart de Ventadorn was a twelfth-century Catalan poet and troubador. These forty-one poems, filled with nostalgia, joy, and tenderness, were writ...

A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, open...

Winner of the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book PrizeSites of Translation illustrates the intricate rhetorical work that multiling...

Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic eff...

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