Literary reference works

A user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises Close readingmaking an argument based in close attention to a textis the foundation of literary studies.

A celebration of the sharpest, wittiest, most beloved Jane Austen characters and their timeless retorts Why use plain words to scold those nearest to you when fancier insults are available?

This title was originally published in 1951.

This title was originally published in 1951.

This title was originally published in 1951.

This title was originally published in 1951.

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was one of the most fascinating literary figures of the 20th century.

Originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1972, this introductory text deals with human language and its relationship to other areas of human culture and behavior.

This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of 'skin' in Shakespeare's works, a term that embraces the human and animal, noun and verb.

Part IV offers the first critical edition of the four full length novels and three stories that comprise the Chronicles of Carlingford.

A user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises Close readingmaking an argument based in close attention to a textis the foundation of literary studies.

A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley, providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with annotations.

A modern critical edition of the works of Delarivier Manley, providing complete texts of all her works, reset and with annotations.

First published in 1992, A.

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Twelfth Night was received and understood by critics, editors and general readers.

This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France.

Defoe's era saw much popular interest in the instructional handbook and behaviour manual.

First published in 1992, A.

In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educators need to engage anew with essential issues of what counts as reading, what kinds of reading matter and how to support teen reading engagement in school and out-of-school settings.