Literary Reference Works

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

This volume examines the literature and culture of nineteenth century America, covering genres such as the early American novel, realist fiction an...

Teaching guides and lesson plans designed to make classic literature engaging and relevant to todays students!   This comprehensive book of lesson ...

This volume mines the diversity and richness of the literature and literary theory produced in the postcolonial era, discussing texts and ideas fro...

Teaching guides and lesson plans designed to make classic literature engaging and relevant to todays students!   This comprehensive book of lesson ...

Subject Guide to Children's Books In Print allows the user to track down children's and young adult titles on every subject imaginable and locate c...

Children's Books In Print is the go-to source for locating children's and young adult titles in the US.

Middle & Junior High School Core Collection, (16th Edition, 2023) is a guide to over 10,000 fiction and non-fiction books recommended for child...

Once described as the best crime writer you've never heard of, James Sallis is a largely underexplored figure in contemporary American literatur...

With the increasing popularity of audiobooks, Books Out Loud is a must-have collection development and reference tool for your library or bookstore.

Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major...

Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and po...

Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeares texts in light of the m...

This title offers a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses...

This is a complete and up-to-date reference guide to the published writings of Graham Greene, from his literary writings to published letters and i...

The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was ...

Suitable for ages 10 and 11 (Year 6) Provides targeted questions for grammar, punctuation and spelling Ideal for home learning and additional pr...

This accessible text provides a roadmap for producing a high-quality literature review--an integral part of a successful thesis, dissertation, term...

Explores the affective, ethical, and political demands that difficult reading places on readers of midcentury Latin American literature The radical...

Explores the affective, ethical, and political demands that difficult reading places on readers of midcentury Latin American literature The radical...

This is a comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, one of the most popular and critically ac...

Insults, scorn, and verbal abusefrequently deployed to affirm the social identity of the insulterare destined to fail when that language is appropr...

Honorable Mention for the Robert K. Martin Prize 2019 Media portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women frequently depict powerless, silent individuals who...

James Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. This volume, with over 12,000 individu...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: GCSE Grade 9-1 Subject: English Literat...

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

Some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, and García Márquez, have explored ambiguous sites o...

In her follow-up to The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter, Lana A. Whited has compiled a new collection of essays analyzing the books, films, and other ...

An urgent call to think on the edges, surfaces, and turns of the literary artifact when it crosses cultural boundaries In the absence of specialize...

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohens staying power and his various positio...

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as a most unclubbable man. Conversely, this ...