Literary reference works

Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance of-ten seem unclear.

This volume considers texts produced between 1800 and 1830, exploring themes such as print culture, Illustration and the narrative form.

It showcases how posthumanism has transformed the humanities and what new work is now possible in light of this unsettling.

This volume looks at Marx and Freud, who, though not 'Shakespeareans' in the usual academic or theatrical sense, were both deeply informed by Shakespeare's writings, and have both had enormous influence on the understanding and reception of Shakespeare.

With an A-Z of over 300 entries, Music in Shakespeare is the most comprehensive study of all the musical terms found in Shakespeare's complete works.

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust.

This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible.

This new edition of the British epistolary novel The History of Lady Louisa Stroud, and the Honourable Miss Caroline Stretton examines the theme of female agency, and is an excellent example of women's writing in the eighteenth-century.

Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions.

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history.

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s.

First published in 1977, this book looks at the versatile literary form of dramatic monologue.

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries.

The 18th century in Britain was a transition period for literature.

Formerly a site of study reserved for intellectual historians and political philosophers, scholarship on religious toleration, from the perspective of literary scholars, is fairly limited.

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry.

Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967.

Examines how seventeenth-century literature engaged with - expressed, shaped, and was influenced by - the tumultuous period in which it was composed.

This book, first published in 1988, reveals the great care Dickens took with the planning and preparation of A Tale of Two Cities and its roots.

First published in 1975, this title provides an introduction to the study of the novel.

This Companion examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present.

First published in 1998.

First published in 1993.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

"e;Demonstrates powerfully the manifold ways in which Roth's writing often helped to shape, and was in turn shaped by, the larger political climate.

Shortlist--Oscar Kenshur Book Prize From Jonathan Swift to Washington Irving, those looking to propose and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to Cervantes's notoriously mad comic hero as a model.

Alejandro Morales is a pioneer of Chicana and Chicano literature and the author of groundbreaking works including The Brick People, The Rag Doll Plagues, and River of Angels.

Since the publication and cinematic success of 1992's Along Came a Spider, James Patterson seems to have taken up permanent residence on the bestseller lists.

Ann Blainey's work, first published in 1985, provides a sensitive study of Leigh Hunt and the literary climate that influenced his life, and fills a large gap in literary biography.

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius.

The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.

This second edition, including some new chapters, provides a revised introduction to all aspects of George Eliot''s writing.

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period''s immense transformations.

This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow''s work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.

What is wisdom?

Explores the place of the concept of climate in literature from the classical age to the contemporary.

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.

Disciplines from literary studies to environmentalism have recently undergone a spectacular reorientation that has refocused entire fields, methodologies, and vocabularies on the world and its sister terms such as globe, planet, and earth.

This collection, first published in 1982, brings together thirteen writers from a wide variety of critical traditions to take a fresh look at Joyce and his crucial position not only in English literature but in modern literature as a whole.

The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist writing.

Lively and accessibly written, this Introduction offers readers a guide to the complex and rewarding literature of Toni Morrison.

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen's poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume text of his best work.

The first comprehensive and continuous account of all five thousand years of the history of lexicography.

In a world where reading is reportedly dead, renowned humorist, illustrator, and New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall offers 50 inventive, outlandish, and wickedly entertaining things to do with all those excess books in 50 Things to Do with a Book.

The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, mercantile activities, and waterways that have been politicized.

The theme for Volume 74 is ''Shakespeare and Education''.