Literary reference works

In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework.

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies.

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

First published in 1993.

This is a guide for spiritual mountain climbers.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

From 1923, when he emigrated from Bucharest, to his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, Benjamin Fondane made a unique and independent-minded contribution to the literary and intellectual life of Paris.

A comprehensive, global, cutting-edge study of magical realism exploring its history, development, and relevance to real-world issues.

Each generation asks in its own way, "e;What does it mean to be human?

Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.

Vladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer.

The first full biography of James Montgomery, who through his actions before and during the Civil War, contributed towards the abolition of slavery.

The diverse literatures of Victorian and Edwardian Britain have provided a wealth of research materials for novice and expert researchers alike.

This detailed military history of the Spanish Civil War dispels long-held misconceptions and sheds significant new light on the conflict.

From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.

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

This collection provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of the 1940s, showing how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade.

Das Buch verfolgt den Wandel des Luther-Bildes in der Literatur.

While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea.

All autobiographers are unreliable narrators.

Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare's romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character.

An annotated bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies for the years 1981-83, offering a quick guide to recent work.

First published in 1902, this volume contains an extensive, technical scholarly introduction, followed by three Middle-English versions of the Rule of St.

"e;Lucid analysis of Union and Confederate intelligence gathering functions and services .

A history of English georgic writing – literature focused on working rural lives, landscapes and environments – from 1500 to the present.

This set reissues 7 books on the Romantic poet Lord Byron originally published between 1957 and 2005.

Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades.

Situates the works of Borges within the contexts of family and culture, Argentine and world history, and reception and afterlife.

What the scientific community dismisses as a mental disorder, Christians have often labeled "e;demon possession.

The map we draw of seventeenth-century French literary and intellectual culture is usually a small one, centered on Paris and Versailles to reflect the consolidation of intellectual and artistic capital under absolutism.

You are holding a collection of short stories that reveal how every aspect of life takes a particular dimension when considered from the perspective of faith in relationship with everyday experiences.

Spirituality is a hot topic in today's culture.

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 essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It.

Amihay offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors.

Wie lässt sich über Geschichte schreiben, wenn diese zuverlässig nicht mehr zur Verfügung steht?

The second volume of this authoritative biography of Americas first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farraguts life, which included the ever-fascinating period of the Civil War.

The "e;Young American"e; critics - Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford - are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "e;Little Renaissance"e; of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and politics.

Too often we turn prayer into well-intentioned patterns of our own making.

Cette étude réexamine l'évolution du théâtre de Molière vers un spectacle total, de plus en plus infusé de musique, de danse – et d'absurdité.

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

This book outlines the cultural and historical contexts in which crime fiction participates, surveying the ideas animating its study today.

A rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James JoyceIn this book, Fran ORourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the authors oeuvre.