Literary Reference Works

In this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shape...

W. B. Yeats is one of the most important writers in English of the twentieth century, and the system of A Vision is generally recognized as fundame...

John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the golden age of science fiction'. It was a wonderful decade for science fict...

Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and arti...

The world of books in one little book. It doesn't matter how well read you are, A Little Book About Books is packed full of quotes, one-liners and ...

'He was not of an age, but for all time.' (Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson) No writer, before or since, has matched Shakespeare in terms of i...

This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian ...

Reading Childrens Literature: A Critical Introduction offers insights into the major discussions and debates currently animating the field of child...

A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and pop...

This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to show how Pierre Machereys remarkableand still provocativeearly work can contribu...

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the Unit...

Confronting Bakhtins formative reading of Dostoevsky to recover the ways the novelist stokes conflict and engages readersand to explore the reasons...

The Limits of Love: The Lives of D. H. Lawrence and Frieda von Richthofen provides a candid look at two illustrious people who tested the capacitya...

With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and emerged as a distinct field of study. Reading Autobiography, originally published...

C. S. Lewis Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size nuggets of inspiration and wisdom from the much-loved author, philosopher, and Chr...