Literary Reference Works

With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New Yorks most distinctive neighborhoods; its also one of the...

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the keyword as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keyword...

With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating j...

Not Your Mothers Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectiviti...

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the keyword as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keyword...

A legendary editors survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Franks masterly account of the novel go...

A legendary editors survey of the twentieth-century novel and how it shaped the fiction of the future'Edwin Franks masterly account of the novel go...

This diverse and affordable collection offers the trusted writing guidance students need, along with the exciting mix of stories, poems and plays i...

In Steinbeck's Imaginarium, Robert DeMott delves into the imaginative, creative, and sometimes neglected aspects of John Steinbeck's writing. DeMot...

Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much atten...

Latin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much atten...

Presents alternative categories of fiction through which to examine how contemporary writers have envisaged Africas changing literary terrains Step...

Examining Afro-German artists use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to d...

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural exp...

Specters, Monsters, and the Damned examines a rich selection of Spanish fantastic literature to illustrate how the language of the supernatural exp...

How modernist interartistic experimentation and the proliferation of new media technologies inspired fresh insights into poetry Isobel Palmer spotl...

Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad? This...

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century and its revolutionary impact on...

A dynamic reappraisal of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, exploring its radical origins in the seventeenth century and its revolutionary impact on...

Editor Cedrick Mays The Collected Works of Jupiter Hammon offers a complete look at the literary achievements of one of the founders of African Ame...

In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educato...

In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educato...

Delve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the depths of despair to the celebra...

Modernism cannot be reduced to a rejection of established norms. Revolutions in Verse: The Medium of Russian Modernism spotlights Russian modernist...

Typologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Despit...

Typologies of Humor in African Literatures is a study on the use of humor and comedy in African literary texts across the twentieth century. Despit...

This is a journey in search of the traces of eight legendary lost books. The clues are fragile, the hope of finding these pages scarce. Yet, maybe,...

In the many realms of modern fantasy there is only one true King, and his name is George Raymond Richard Martin. With A Song of Ice and Fire, Marti...

In today's cultural and political climate of relative LGBTQ+ inclusion, Settler Tenses: Queer Times and Literatures of the American West provides a...

Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer for the New York Times Magazine that books are made out of books, but he was famously unwilling to discuss how...