Literary Reference Works

For eighteenth century readers, the contents of a novel were often perceived as part of reality. The first part of this study on the results of thi...

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdiscipli...

In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Hopkins explores the remaking of whiteness in the...

Acomprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fictionCelebrating Elizabe...

The studies reprinted here deal with the Byzantine empire between the 9th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the period of the Macedonian dynasty,...

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.D. manuscript residing in Salisbury Cathedral. As a penitential manual, it joi...

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his la...

Published in 1979: This is a play based on the reign of King John with notes.

In this study the extent to which Wieland contributed to the literary genre of the travesty is established, the poet's approach to his sources as w...

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. For...

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. Forces ser...

If you like your coffee icy and your books spicy... this is next on the TBR. Are you devoted to Romantasy, a lover of Regency scandal or a meet-cut...

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and signif...

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky's poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music ...

The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and ...

Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic traditi...

Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos write...

Literature not only represents Canada as our home and native land but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that l...

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insula...

The Bronte family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspira...