Literary Reference Works

Chasing after a family secret--a curious silence surrounding a long-lost ancestor--led the author on a pilgrimage through the landscape, history an...

Found in scores of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American narratives, the action-adventure heroine leaves the domestic space to pursue an inde...

Yi Kwang-su (18921950) was one of the pioneers of modern Korean literature. When the serialization of Mujong (The Heartless) began in 1917, it was ...

From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both s...

Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature   Before the First World ...

In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney's poetry by reading it thr...

In his 1837 speech The American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, life is our dictionary, encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyon...

Fiction lies in order to tell the truth and seeks reality through shadows. Philosophy attempts to dispel false realities; it pursues clear under...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing ...

The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain is the first systematic study on cultural images of Andalusia as Spains O...

Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document ...

Planet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing ...

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to refle...

The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuo...

The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuo...

We live in a world of talk. Yet Race Sounds argues that we need to listen morenot just hear things, but actively listenparticularly in relation to ...

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us abou...