Literary Reference Works

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...

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the programme of the Internationa...

The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavi...

The Harlem Renaissance was the most influential single movement in African American literary history. The movement laid the groundwork for subseque...

The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the A...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the mult...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extend...

Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and...

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteen...

The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the...

The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and po...

In-depth critical discussions of William Shakespeare's play - Plus complimentary, unlimited online access to the full content of this great literar...

*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate...

The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, ...

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year sp...

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores ...

How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on a lis...

Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America offers the first extended comparison between American writers Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) and Jean Toomer...

New York City's streets, parks, museums, architecture, and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York's earliest settl...

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