Literary Reference Works

Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de L...

A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Coop...

'Radical, intrepid, compendious, /A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures/, goes far toward restoring 'postcolonialism' to its historica...

An essential quick-reference book for students of Gothic literature, theatre and literary theory'Key Concepts in the Gothic' provides a one-stop re...

Frederick Douglass in Context provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Frederick Douglass, the nineteenth-century's ...

At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Ho...

The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships...

Illuminating the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien's legendariumIn this remarkable work of ...

Othello has long been considered (along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth) one of Shakespeare's four greatest works of tragedy. Recently, however...

Patriotism has long been an important theme in world literature, especially during the era of the so-called nation-state. Millions of people, motiv...

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plow...

This collection of essays analyzes the various manifestations of racism in Gothic narratives: literature, film, TV, architecture. The primary goal ...

In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of W...

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...

Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of sub...