Literary reference works

Essential reading on the writing and development of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the twentieth century.

Essential reading on the writing and development of American poetry from its beginnings to the end of the twentieth century.

This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

This title, first published in 1990, is a census of the manuscripts of William Butler Yeats.

This title, first published in 1990, is a census of the manuscripts of William Butler Yeats.

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes.

Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for final answers as for insights into questions about writing, literary traditions and the differences of the sexes.

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history.

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history.

Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, and the subsequent developments as critics use a range of modern theoretical approaches to understand and promote the work of these non-canonical and marginalised poets.

Through her selection of fourteen essays, Tess Cosslett charts the rediscovery by feminist critics of the Victorian Women Poets such as Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, and the subsequent developments as critics use a range of modern theoretical approaches to understand and promote the work of these non-canonical and marginalised poets.