Literary Reference Works

A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life na...

A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life na...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cab...

Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will...

A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naïve reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our co...

This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles' Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel's interpretation in...

W. B. Yeats was not only a poet but also a cultural revolutionary. A restless collaborator, he fostered countless artistic enterprises, from the Ab...

Mosaic Fictions is the first book-length critical analysis of Canadian Spanish Civil War literature. Exploring published and archival writings, the...

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in t...

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) is far less known for also w...

Understanding an epic storys key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns...

Understanding an epic storys key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how divine and human concerns...

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) is far less known for also w...

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct e...

Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing...

A comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Byron, entries range from detailed coverage of the major poems to items...

In this book, Paul Contino offers a theological interpretation of Dostoevskys novel The Brothers Karamazov. The author introduces the concept of in...

Did you know that Crocodile Dundee was based on real-life buffalo hunter Rod Ansell? Or that most of the main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird w...

The Ulysses Guide: Tours Through Joyce's Dublin explains the action of the book in terms of its settings and illuminates some of the more challengi...

Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with what the realists heralded as artful and accurate depictions of the world. Realism i...

Literary realism rose to prominence in postbellum America with what the realists heralded as artful and accurate depictions of the world. Realism i...

Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts and images of the twentieth centuryThis volume looks at Cuban literature and art that chall...

Tracing corporeality and materiality across Cuban texts and images of the twentieth centuryThis volume looks at Cuban literature and art that chall...

The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and internati...

Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen repre...

Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature Studies Understandings of nature h...

Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writin...