Literary reference works

Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life.

Historians have long treated Reconstruction primarily as a southern concern isolated from broader national political developments.

The Caribbean Novel Since 1945 offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean, exploring the relationship between literary form, cultural practice, and the nation-state.

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Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement.

Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today.

This volume, in honor of Allan James, collects a range of articles from different domains of English studies as a token of Allan James's academic interests and his integrative approach to the field.

This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play.

First published in 1968.

A foundational text in the emerging field of Latin American and Iberian food studies

This title, first published in 1990, offers a feminist and psychoanalytic reassessment of the Joycean canon in the wake of Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva.

Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years.

First published in 1989.

The object of this study, first published in 1980, is to dispel the view that James Joyce had no political views.

This literary companion surveys the young adult works of American author Marion Zimmer Bradley, primarily known for her work in the fantasy genre.

Die Weitergabe von Wissen und Fertigkeiten ist ein Kernbereich mittelalterlicher Lebenswirklichkeit.

This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change.

Today, the "e;fight to write"e;-the struggle to become the legitimate chronicler of one's own story-is being waged and won by women across mediums and borders.

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

Billy Collins "e;puts the 'fun' back in profundity,"e; says poet Alice Fulton.

This book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel.

Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children''s book market.

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;A reliable guide to what science fiction is"e; Christopher Priest, award-winning science fiction author"e;A really good introduction to the genre"e; SFX Magazine"e;Perceptive and glorious"e; Ian Watson, author of the screenplay for Steve Spielberg's A.

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Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life.

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 literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century.

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie Kinder mit unterschiedlichen Herkunftssprachen (Russisch, Niederländisch) im Vergleich zu einsprachig aufwachsenden deutschsprachigen Kindern semantische Rollenrelationen im Satz bestimmen.

Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the comparative history of sexuality and provides a window onto the continuous cultural relevance of same-sex desire in Chinese history.

Una colección de ensayos escogidos del crítico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura, hegemonía, y conflicto social.

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol - in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds.

The Post-Romantics, first published in 1990, provides a clear, introductory guide to the literary careers and reputations of five major Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Swinburne and Clough.

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award Winner, 2018, Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth-Century Section Moral electricitya term coined by American transcendentalists in the 1850s to describe the force of nature that was literacy and education in shaping a greater society.

A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer''s best-known poem.

Die große Stärke der Slawistik, die an Formalismus und Strukturalismus geschulte Textanalyse, wird in dieser Einführung kombiniert mit einem Überblick über die literarischen Epochen im slawischen Sprachraum von der mittelalterlichen Heldenepik bis zur Postmoderne.

This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965–1996.

'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature.

Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study and use of the Shakespearean text.

Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory.

An authoritative and comprehensive guide to poetry throughout the worldThe Princeton Handbook of World Poetries-drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics-provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history and practice of poetry in more than 100 major regional, national, and diasporic literatures and language traditions around the globe.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors.

The perfect Father's Day giftTolkien's One Ring, at the centre of one of the greatest fantasy tales ever told, is an undeniably iconic and powerful symbol in literature.

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut f r Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important but previously unexplored influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era.

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson - Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), and Red Magic (1930) - offers a combination of classic fairy tales, alongside lesser known, global and diverse tales.