Literary reference works

Walt Whitman created, in various editions of Leaves of Grass, what is arguably the most influential book of poems anywhere in the past 200 years.

In his 1837 speech "e;The American Scholar,"e; Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "e;life is our dictionary,"e; encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century.

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology.

The epic story continues in Charm, the fifth in New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff's lush, action-packed and romantic young adult paranormal fantasy series.

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Charles Dicken's novel Oliver Twist.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Charles Dicken's novel Oliver Twist.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe.

Thanks to the accurate and detailed Ultimate study guide Collection, you have now the possibility to know everything about Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

New Feminist Research Ethics re-examines the place of the ethical in feminist research and identifies new ethical priorities for feminist researchers.

New Feminist Research Ethics re-examines the place of the ethical in feminist research and identifies new ethical priorities for feminist researchers.

When Henry Vizetelly was imprisoned in 1889 for publishing the novels of Emile Zola in English, the problem was not just Zola's French candour about sex - it was that Vizetelly's books were cheap, and ordinary people could read them.

The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory.

The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory.

This is a comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed novels of the twentieth century.

Caught between the well-worn grooves the Boom and the Gen-X have left on the Latin American literary canon, the writing intellectuals that comprise what the Generation of '72 have not enjoyed the same editorial acclaim or philological framing as the literary cohorts that bookend them.

During even a cursory reading of the 'literature about books,' students of bibliography frequently have initial difficulties in understanding some of the terms they encounter.

Samuel Hall Young, a Presbyterian clergyman, met John Muir when the great naturalist's steamboat docked at Fort Wrangell, in southeastern Alaska, where Young was a missionary to the Stickeen Indians.

Key essays on comparative literature from the eighteenth century to todayAs comparative literature reshapes itself in today's globalizing age, it is essential for students and teachers to look deeply into the discipline's history and its present possibilities.

This edited collection highlights international research on domestic homicides and death reviews which are a rapidly growing intervention/prevention initiative in various countries.

The undisputed "e;Queen of Crime,"e; Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time.

Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large.

Slow to rise in the literary world, Octavia Estelle Butler cultivated musings on earth's future, reaching massive critical acclaim in the process.

This is a comprehensive and detailed encyclopedia for readers of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed novels of the twentieth century.

Die Zeitschrift erscheint seit 1987 halbjährlich und ist im Aufsatzteil im Wechsel aktuellen Themen gewidmet oder frei konzipiert.

Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper's novels represent the very beginnings of American literature.

Although often overlooked today, James Fenimore Cooper's novels represent the very beginnings of American literature.

This book offers authoritative critical and historical study of the Australian novel from the colonial past to the present day.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.

This book offers authoritative critical and historical study of the Australian novel from the colonial past to the present day.

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

Der perfekte Band zum Abtauchen in die Welt der "Seawalkers"!

In Ulysses and Us, Declan Kiberd argues that James Joyce's Ulysses offers a humane vision of a more tolerant and decent life under the dreadful pressures of the modern world.

Once upon a time all literature was fantasy, set in a mythical past when magic existed, animals talked, and the gods took an active hand in earthly affairs.

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction.

Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-Fe (Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young.

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span.

This handbook provides a detailed exploration of the rich and diverse theatrical work produced by women in the first two decades of 21st-century British theatre.

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024'A masterclass in masterpieces' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Epic, personal, smart, wise, witty' JOSHUA COHEN'Sizzles with passion' TOM McCARTHYFor more than two decades, Edwin Frank has introduced readers to forgotten or overlooked texts as director of the acclaimed publisher New York Review Books.

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.