Literary Reference Works

A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themes.In 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The...

A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berrymans correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors, showcasing the turbulent, f...

This book challenges distinctions between popular and serious literature by recognizing le Carré as one of the most significant ethicists in contem...

Victorians views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people...

Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity Early modern poem...

Since the start of the twentieth century, poets have been irresistibly drawn to the image of the poem as a kind of data-handling, a way of mediatin...

Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (19252015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island...

David Drake is recognized as one of the United States most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his potsmany inscribed with origina...

Throughout American history there has been an oddly close relationship between the seductive appeals of narrative fiction and those of political rh...

A collection of short stories by Renée Vivien (1877-1909). Reflects and challenges attitudes of the belle epoque, questions gender roles, and repre...

Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and...

During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, tra...

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that p...

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that p...

Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women's writing has flourished in many genres and locations, enco...

Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed ...

Known for his maxim make it new, Ezra Pound played a principal role in shaping the modernist movement as a poet, translator, and literary critic. Y...

Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed ...

In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary Am...

In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary Am...

Known for his maxim make it new, Ezra Pound played a principal role in shaping the modernist movement as a poet, translator, and literary critic. Y...

Mexicana and Chicana authors from the late 1970s to the turn of the century helped overturn the patriarchal literary culture and mores of their tim...

From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical succes...

Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish impe...

Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish impe...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de L...