Literary Reference Works

Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter, the revised edition, is the story of one wom...

Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argue...

2020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association 2021 PROSE Awards Finalist, Music & the Performing ...

L'Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus is one of the most read twentieth-century novels and is studied around the world. This workbook provides ...

In the fall of 1959, Harpers Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. The supplement was gr...

Julius Caesar is one of William Shakespeare's most famous and important plays, and one of the most frequently taught, especially in high schools. D...

From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature. The book is a...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

A groundbreaking study of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic worldal-Nuwayris The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition...

Presents authoritative analyses of the religious terrain of the modernist period Presents authoritative scholarly analyses of the religious terrai...

For her gorgeously illustrated and deeply researched contribution to the prestigious Grolier Hundred series, Chris Loker has assembled one hundred ...

The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings ...

J.R.R. Tolkien is an author beloved by many, but people forget the hostile reception of his work from several literary critics, who despised (a...

Leading scholars examine the history of climate and literature. Essays analyse this history in terms of the contrasts between literary and climatol...

A dictionary records a language and a cultural world. This global history of lexicography is the first survey of all the dictionaries which humans ...

This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up ...

For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and found...

In the aftermath of World War II, the United States emerged as the dominant imperial power, and in US popular memory, the Second World War is remem...

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phen...

The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-re...

This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, ...

The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing provides a comprehensive historical overview of the diverse literary traditions impacting ...

This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different pe...