Literary reference works

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

It offers an overview of literary Decadence, expanding the range of writers, locales, and time periods that make up Decadence.

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world''s most influential artists.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world''s most influential artists.

A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Accessible, authoritative essays putting one of Britain''s best-loved, but seemingly isolated, poet-artists back in touch with his times.

Leading historians introduce the most influential trends in thought which originated or developed in the nineteenth century.

Accessible, authoritative essays putting one of Britain''s best-loved, but seemingly isolated, poet-artists back in touch with his times.

Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.

Leading historians introduce the most influential trends in thought which originated or developed in the nineteenth century.

An exciting new Companion exploring the study of how stories work and of how we make them work.

Provides accessible essays by leading international scholars, offering up-to-date insights into the key contexts to Lawrence''s life, career and legacy.

Discusses how Orientalism, a key critical concept in literary studies, has evolved and assists our reading of literature.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

Provides a new account of the years that formed the crucible of Irish writing in English.

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.

This book explores American literature and culture of the First World War while analyzing the war''s historical context and significance.

This book illustrates African American writers'' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

Shows how the concept of decadence has evolved into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power.

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

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.

Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.

Places Mark Twain in the literary, historical, and cultural contexts of his time.

Frames a generically and culturally diverse literary portrait of the early USA, unsettling narratives of incipient national unity.

Discusses how Orientalism, a key critical concept in literary studies, has evolved and assists our reading of literature.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

The first full scholarly edition of Desperate Remedies (1871), Thomas Hardy''s first published novel.

This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change.

This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

Offers a radically new picture of the ''long 1930s'', describing it as a pivot of twentieth-century literary and cultural production.

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a range of authors, texts, genres and movements.

This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a range of authors, texts, genres and movements.

Illuminates the ways Shakespeare''s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.

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