Literary Reference Works

With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm t...

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative inventio...

Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such ...

This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates an...

Written by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, this book offers new insight into the various contexts that inform his body of wo...

The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to oste...

Reading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase '21st-century American literature,' but no critical consensus exists regarding when th...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engl...

This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer's body of work. It examines important literary, critical, the...

Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provid...

Reading lists, course syllabi, and prizes include the phrase '21st-century American literature,' but no critical consensus exists regarding when th...

Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 19651996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of what...