Literary Reference Works

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging...

In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems, and fictions related to the West...

Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and wh...

Essays by Owen E. Brady, Kelly C. Connelly, Juan F. Elices, Keith Hughes, Derek C. Maus, Jerrilyn McGregory, Laura Quinn, Francesca Canad Sautman, ...

A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strate...

This collection of the most interesting and important Negro American writings up to the close of the Civil War is of both literary and social inter...

These eight studies in Victorian literature, a memorial to Dr. Booker, do not attempt to suggest the breadth of his literary interests, nor do they...

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada's most popular crime wr...

While research on autism has sometimes focused on special talents or abilities, autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when...

This study explores Hemingway's newspaper and magazine journalism, his introductions and prefaces to books by others, his program notes on painting...

Play Up and Play the Game (1973) examines the type of fictional hero most embodied in the work and character, poetry and philosophy of Sir Henry Ne...

War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film...

The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne appear throughout the writing of the great Irish poet W.B. Yeats, featuring in his poems, short fic...

Logomotives are words that change worlds past, present, and future. Bearing a wide range of linguistic, regional and disciplinary expertise, the v...

Herbert Blau (1926–2013) was the most influential theater theorist, practitioner, and educator of his generation. He was the leading American inter...

This pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, s...

Substantially reworks accounts of gothic and globalisation, to examine located gothic engagements with global histories and phenomena Provides a c...

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

The purpose of this collection, which was first published in 1996, is to provide both an overview of the major critical approaches to the Four Bran...

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan li...

First published in 1996. For most of the time since the Grimm brothers first contrasted the fairy tale (Märchen) and the legend (Sage), the former ...

Join a band of curious cats for an adorable reading of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. Whether it's friendship, beauty, love or something more s...