Literary Reference Works

Jorge Luis Borges (18991986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which h...

Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last nov...

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

A History of Irish Modernism examines a wide variety of artworks (from the 1890s to the 1970s), including examples from literature, film, painting,...

In the years of and around the First World War, American poets, fiction writers, and dramatists came to the forefront of the international movement...

The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclai...

This eighteenth and final volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a variorum edition of The Great Gatsby (1925), the...

This volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the 'Emergency') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Nor...

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continu...

Magical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the f...

Henry James left America in 1875 for the sake of his art and for the rich cultural heritage of Europe. His return in the late summer of 1904, based...

A History of Mexican Literature chronicles a story more than five hundred years in the making, looking at the development of literary culture in Me...

This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer f...

Cormac McCarthy is a writer informed by an intense curiosity. His interests range from the natural world, to philosophy and religion, to history an...

Decadence, that flowering of a mannered literary style in France during the Second Empire, and in the last two decades of the nineteenth century in...

A fresh, twenty-first-century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive, and multicultural sense. Australian literature is one of the wo...

While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of...

French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society. Delivering a comprehensive history of though...

Orientalism and Literature discusses a key critical concept in literary studies and how it assists our reading of literature. It reviews the concep...

The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political ev...