Literary Reference Works

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

Winner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels,...

The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring wo...

In Comics Art in Korea, comics scholar John A. Lent embarks on a comprehensive exploration of the vibrant world of Korean comics, cartoons, comic s...

On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliffs Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (194620...

Intersecting Worlds: Colonial Liminality in US Southern and Icelandic Literatures recalibrates readings of US southern and American writers by expl...

Contributions by Sara Austin, Robert Bittner, J. Bradley Blankenship, Gabriel Duckels, Caitlin Howlett, Isabel Millán, Jennifer Miller, Kaylee Jang...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Identifies and examines a poetics of weakness in Soviet underground literature Artists of the late Soviet era sought new, nonconformist ways of app...

Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad The Streets of Laredo is an early expression of discontent with an encroaching modernity, author JosÉ E. ...

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman wr...

Konrad von Würzburg was the most significant and versatile German author of the thirteenth century, possibly even the Middle Ages. His works stand ...

Examining Afro-German artists use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to d...

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africas changing literary terrains Step...

Since the nations founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of c...

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter...

Offering guidance and inspiration to English literature instructors, this book faces the challenges of real-life teaching and the contemporary high...

For eighteenth century readers, the contents of a novel were often perceived as part of reality. The first part of this study on the results of thi...

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdiscipli...

In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Hopkins explores the remaking of whiteness in the...

Acomprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fictionCelebrating Elizabe...

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,...

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.D. manuscript residing in Salisbury Cathedral. As a penitential manual, it joi...

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his la...

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

In this study the extent to which Wieland contributed to the literary genre of the travesty is established, the poet's approach to his sources as w...

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. For...

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. Forces ser...

If you like your coffee icy and your books spicy... this is next on the TBR. Are you devoted to Romantasy, a lover of Regency scandal or a meet-cut...

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and signif...

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music ...

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and ...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic traditi...

Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos write...

Literature not only represents Canada as our home and native land but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that l...

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insula...

The Bronte family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspira...

Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-...