Literary Reference Works

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and weird fiction, T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, des...

We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entitiesgovernments and...

This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field prov...

For the first time since the sixteenth century, a new edition is here made available of the first book of Laurent de Premierfait''s French version ...

James I. Wimsatt edits Guillaume de Machaut''s important Dit de la fleur de lis et de la Marguerite; he identifies an acrostic connecting the earli...

In her study of Marie de France''s twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a hero-quest tale in the vein of Chr...

This collection of fifty-seven essays, manifestos, and other prose writings on literature, painting, music, and cinema is drawn from various litt...

Nineteenth-century Britain gave birth to the fantasy novel and the science fiction novel--two of today's most popular genres. During the same pe...

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and Englands national poet, died. ...

Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged ...

The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in t...

The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalyp...

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdi...

What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters greatest voices, pondered these per...

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice. Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to...

The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a majo...

Adventure fiction is one of the easiest narrative forms to recognize but one of the hardest to define because of its overlap with many other gen...

George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire has sparked a renewed interest in things medieval. The pseudo-historical world of Westeros delights...

Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. ...

D. J. Conlon examines Guy of Warwick, a popular thirteenth century Saxon legend adapted into Anglo-French prose in the fourteenth century.

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials stands as a landmark in fantasy literature. Comprised of the novels The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, an...

Bailey points out in this book that Hardy found a reasoned basis for his meliorism in Von Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious. Hardy's philoso...

This volume contains an introduction and translation into English of six poems by Geffroi de Paris, the fourteenth-century French writer and author...