Literary reference works

An innovative volume offering a remapping of a crucial period in Irish literary history based on contemporary developments in scholarship.

A provocative range of essays on twentieth-century Irish authors, critics and culture framed in contexts of transition and transnationalism.

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

An innovative volume offering a remapping of a crucial period in Irish literary history based on contemporary developments in scholarship.

A provocative range of essays on twentieth-century Irish authors, critics and culture framed in contexts of transition and transnationalism.

Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan''s fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.

Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan''s fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.

A comprehensive and engaging overview of English language dictionary-making from the first monolingual English dictionary to the current day.

This book provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War.

Explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of literary affect.

Showcases cutting-edge research into this most famous tradition of European theatre, presented in English for the first time.

American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 explores how American literary culture responded to the gaudiest, most gauche of 20th-century decades.

This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

This volume offers an overview of the major transitions that occurred in American literary culture between 2000 and 2010.

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

A proactive, in-depth investigation of essential themes, formats, and institutions in 1910s American literature and culture, counterpointing continuity and innovation.

This book explores the dynamics of literary change in the 1990s for American literature.

The first ever history of autobiographical writing in Ireland, based on original scholarship, and structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and writers.

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

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they''re more closely aligned than they typically appear.

This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

This volume offers an overview of the major transitions that occurred in American literary culture between 2000 and 2010.

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

A proactive, in-depth investigation of essential themes, formats, and institutions in 1910s American literature and culture, counterpointing continuity and innovation.

This book explores the dynamics of literary change in the 1990s for American literature.

The first ever history of autobiographical writing in Ireland, based on original scholarship, and structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and writers.

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

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they''re more closely aligned than they typically appear.

Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660–1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.

Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660–1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.

Explores the place of the concept of climate in literature from the classical age to the contemporary.

Explores the place of the concept of climate in literature from the classical age to the contemporary.

This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature.

A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats'' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats'' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature.

Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

Interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, as it confronts racism.

Law and Literature presents a comprehensive overview of literature''s critical interest in and historical interactions with ideas of law and justice.

The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on how time shapes our thinking about literature.

Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.