Literary reference works

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

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust.

Vital Issues presents an annotated scholarly edition of the weekly columns Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the most prominent American feminist intellectual during the early twentieth century, contributed in 1904 to the Boston Woman's Journal, the leading journal of the US woman's movement.

The first work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature.

This volume, first published in 1968, draws attention to the special relationship between Joyce's life and his writing.

Nahrungsaufnahme und Liebe sind menschliche Bedürfnisse, die in kulturellen Praktiken ebenso wie in Kunst und Literatur oftmals eine enge Verbindung eingehen.

The Global South and Literature explores the history, meanings, cultural and literary applications of the notion of the ''Global South.

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

Reflections of Revolution, first published in 1993, demonstrates the interdisciplinarity that had been emerging from cultural and historical studies.

Explore the production of bestsellers at the Frankfurt Book Fair, through an investigation involving three consecutive years of fieldwork.

This volume argues that the 1980s is the most significant American literary decade in the late twentieth century.

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals.

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In "e;A Serpentine Gesture"e;: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W.

This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America.

Guilty pleasures in one's reading habits are nothing new.

*The perfect Valentine (or galentine) gift for fans of Sarah J.

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.

Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period.

Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bible across Europe.

Demonstrates that rather than Penguin Classics'' frequently cited ''general reader'', a more academic market contributed their success.

Black-Arab political and cultural solidarity has had a long and rich history in the United States.

The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of critical interpretation of the poem, assessing past scholarship while offering original materials and insights throughout.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, the idea of independence inspired radical changes across the French-speaking world.

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

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The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society.

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published.

Originally published in 1983, this title lists and annotates reference sources which will help readers select primary materials useful in studies of the literary portraits of women and their societal roles.

While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors.

The Companion to the Victorian Novel provides contextual and critical information about the entire range of British fiction published between 1837 and 1901.

This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations of these plays.

Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions, language, and cultural identity.

Why do Israelis dislike fantasy?

Published to great acclaim in 2006, the hardcover edition of Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape met with outstanding reviews and strong sales, going into three printings.

Illuminates the pleasures and challenges of Shakespeare''s complex language for today''s students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers.

This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market.

**A FINANCIAL TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR**'A remarkable feat' OBSERVER'Clever, wide-ranging.

George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage.

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

A major reassessment of Jack Kerouac''s literary work.