Literary Reference Works

Working Through Memory studies various constructions of memory in contemporary Spanish literature, evoking different aspects of a past of repressio...

Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujund?¥i?ç, Ivana Milkovi?ç, Niall Nance-Carroll, Perry Nodel...

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of new literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. Not coinci...

Contributions by Megan De Roover, Jennifer Harrison, Sarah Jackson, Zoe Jaques, Nada Kujund?¥i?ç, Ivana Milkovi?ç, Niall Nance-Carroll, Perry Nodel...

Los Angeles Review of Books is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition...

Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Ka...

Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite explores the last six novels by Spain´s most honored contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is ...

Honorable Mention, 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean is the first academic work on Muslims in the En...

Published in 1979: This is a play based on the reign of King John with notes.

This reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk City, Wisconsin. In 1937...

This absorbing insight into the mind behind Middle-earth will introduce or remind readers of the abundance that exists in Tolkien's thought and ima...

The friendship between J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis lasted over 40 years and was for each the most important creative collaboration in their lives...

The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty,...

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various p...

The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 ...

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in te...

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This Chinese-English dictionary of proverbs (yanyu) consists of approximately 4,000 Chinese proverbs alphabetically arranged by the first word(s) (...

Beginning with an introduction that examines the portrayal of the characters of Lancelot and Guinevere from their origins to the present day, this ...

Kudos for Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African AmericanChildren s Books "Offers a wonderful overview of literature with black children inits...

The Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets collects together writings by all the major poetic figures from Chaucer to Yeats demonstrating their vivi...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of ...

Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticism of t...

Robert Morrison sets Pride and Prejudice within the social contexts of female conduct books and political tales of terror and traces criticism of t...

The Routledge History of Literature in English covers the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, with accompanying langu...

First published in 1975, this book places Elizabeth Gaskell amongst the major novelists of the nineteenth-century. It considers how she has sometim...

First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of ...

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Ren...

This unique collection of essays applies significant critical approaches to the mythological poetry of the Poetic Edda, a principal source for Old ...

First Published in 2002. Part of the G.Wilson Knight collection, the essays included in this volume V, a full length study that covers misunderstan...

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society. It explore...

This is Volume XII of the G.Wilson Knight collected works and includes essays and commentary on the works of Spenser, Milton's prose and poetry and...

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in ...

First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of...

This is Volume IX of the G.Wilson Knight collected works and includes commentary on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, an essay on Shelley and Kea...

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in ...

First Published in 2002. Part of the G.Wilson Knight collection, the essays included in this volume constitute a fairly consistent record of his at...

This work focuses on colonial literary elites in Ibero- and British America. Creolization describes the cultural adaptations that occur when a comm...

JRR Tolkien, creator of the fictional world of Middle Earth and one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, grew up and spent his...

A sumptuous illustrated journey through Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD; a companion volume to THE LAST HEROIn THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett ta...

'A marvellous celebration of du Maurier's life, work and cultural legacy' SARAH WATERS 'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousin...

Written in a clear and concise A to Z format, Decoding the Lost Symbol is the essential guide to the thrilling third Dan Brown novel to feature Har...

The Teaching Success Guide for the Advanced Placement Classroom series helps teachers motivate students above and beyond the norm by introducing in...

The hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture. Not only is the range of...

During the 1800s, the United States progressed at a remarkable rate. Commerce gave rise to regional specialization and contributed to the growth of...

Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for scholars that aims to connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, te...

Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for scholars that aims to connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, te...