Literary reference works

What is object-relations theory and what does it have to do with literary studies?

This book presents a comprehensive history of Asian American literature, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day.

The first English-language history of Japanese literature in one volume, from pre-medieval times to the present.

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

This volume offers an overview of the major transitions that occurred in American literary culture between 2000 and 2010.

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals.

I have set three aims before me in constructing this book.

Französische Lebens-, Denk- und Schreibstile erfreuen sich seit der Unabhängigkeit in Lateinamerika einer ausgeprägten Wertschätzung, die K.

Of course you have!

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators.

In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published to critical acclaim.

When your faith no longer works, and the catch phrases and Christianese that got you to where you are cannot take you past your current crisis, what do you do?

This informative Companion offers a combination of original readings and factual background information.

General Henry Lockwood of Delaware: Shipmate of Melville, Co-builder of the Naval Academy, Civil War Commander depicts the fascinating and accomplished life of nineteenth-century Delaware son, Brig.

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865.

Drawing on the latest scholarship and criticism, this new Companion provides an authoritative, accessible introduction to Eliot''s complete oeuvre.

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

A "e;timely"e; look at the roles played by ex-Confederates after the war, in politics, academia, the military, industry, and more (Midwest Book Review).

This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history.

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 the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C.

Shortlist--2023 Oscar Kenshur Book PrizeWinner--2022 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior.

"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.

The mystery of God has fascinated people of all generations.

Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.

First published in 1993.

You know how, very occasionally in your life, theres a before and after reading experience?

Illuminates the multiple contexts in which the life, works and reception of Lord Byron (1788–1824) are understood.

The definitive text on the social, intellectual and theatrical conditions within which Molière operated and his subsequent impact worldwide.

As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women's cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order.

Investigates selected Beckett works presenting worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation.

Although well known to experts in English literature, Guilpin's Skialetheia has been available only in inadequate texts until now.

This much-needed guide to translated literature offers readers the opportunity to hear from, learn about, and perhaps better understand our shrinking world from the perspective of insiders from many cultures and traditions.

Five months after the election of Abraham Lincoln, which had revealed the fracturing state of the nation, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter and the fight for the Union began in earnest.

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice.

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals.

Provides a comprehensive, global, detailed history of science fiction from its beginnings to the present.

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 the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C.

The definitive text on the social, intellectual and theatrical conditions within which Molière operated and his subsequent impact worldwide.

The Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature and Theater provides users with an accessible single-volume reference tool covering Portuguese-speaking Brazil and the 16 Spanish-speaking countries of continental Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela).

This volume argues that the 1980s is the most significant American literary decade in the late twentieth century.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

Bring the otherworldly mystery of spiritual reality down to earth.

A beautiful ebook edition of the NRSV Bible, annotated with writings from the works of C.

This title, first published in 1961, explores the general background of attitudes, beliefs and ideas from which Eliot's works have originated.

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.