Literary reference works

Offers indispensable interdisciplinary contexts for reading the wide-ranging philosophical, critical, and literary works of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Civil War buffs, be warned: Webb Garrison's Curiosities of the Civil War may catch you off guard.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America.

Die Studie setzt sich mit der Fiktionalisierung der anhaltenden Gewalt in Haiti nach dem Sturz der Duvalier-Diktatur im Jahr 1986 auseinander.

George S.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story is a departure for State House Press.

Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century.

Die beiden bekanntesten Texte der altnordischen Mythologie, die Lieder-Edda und die Prosa-Edda, welche im 13.

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library.

Shakespeare''s first critic: a newly discovered work of literary criticism from the 1590s, the most revolutionary decade in English literary history.

This set reissues two volumes entitled A Book of Broadsheets and A Second Book of Broadsheets, both with introductions by Geoffrey Dawson, a former editor of The Times.

If you're religious about your coffee, you're in holy company.

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history.

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

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

This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce's two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Scott L.

Offers accessible and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of boxing around the globe.

Originally published in 1975, E.

Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do.

This volume reframes mid-century African American literature as highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries.

This book surveys the stellar writing by the Welsh master Ken Follett.

Celebrating the spirit of songIn A Song to Sing, a Life to Live, Don and Emily Saliers help readers see the connections between Saturday night music and Sunday morning music by exploring the spiritual dimensions of music itself.

Herman Melville in Context will help readers of Melville better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

This book provides readers with an overview of how Americans have commemorated and remembered the Civil War.

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.

The Battle of New Market in the Shenandoah Valley suffers from no lack of drama, interest, or importance.

The tragedy that devastated Spain for 33 months from July 1936 to April 1939, was, first and foremost, a brutal fratricidal conflict, the product of the fatal clash between diametrically opposed views of Spain and an attempt to settle crucial issues which had divided Spaniards for generations: agrarian reform, recognition of the identity of the historical regions (Catalonia, the Basque Country), and the roles of the Catholic Church and the armed forces in a modern state.

First published in 1916, The Textual Tradition of Chaucer's Troilus compares the best unprinted manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus with the printed texts.

A History of New Zealand Literature explores the genealogy of New Zealand writing from the colonial period to the present day.

Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists (creative writers, professors, critics, and Gothic Studies program developers at universities), the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010.

Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660–1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.

This book is intended as a devotional guide for the Advent season.

First published in 2001.

The Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and operating on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

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 Newbolt.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus's poetry.

The nineteenth century was a period of prolific literary production from women writers, including figures such as Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Jacobs, and Zitkala-Sa, who played pivotal roles in American literary history.

With the erudition that has distinguished his lifelong study of literary criticism, Wellek considers the trends, theories, and quarrels of recent years.

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters.

Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.