Literary Reference Works

The Short Story of the Novel is a new and innovative introduction to the best works of fiction from the last 500 years. Simply constructed, the boo...

“All aspiring authors know the value of a great literary agent, but few know how to get one. Lucinda Halpern has written the definitive guide to at...

‘Anthem Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: An Introductory Guide’ helps readers in the process of critical thinking and persuasive speaking and ...

A literary scholar and investment banker applies economic criticism to canonical novels, dramatically changing the way we read these classics and p...

Now revised and expanded for its first paperback publication, The Life of Crime was the winner of four major prizes for the best criti...

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sec...

Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately,...

Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately,...

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffley’s trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction. While her first book of the trilogy, Where ...

New perspectives on women's contributions to periodical culture in the era of modernismThis collection highlights the contributions of women writer...

Academics, researchers, postgraduates, upper level undergraduates, educated general readers in Fin de Siecle, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cul...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

Explores the many ways in which Anthony Trollope is being read in the twenty-first centurySince the turn of the century, the Victorian novelist Ant...

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artisti...