Literary reference works

With new entries and sensitive edits, this fifth edition places J.

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W.

This interpretive dictionary introduces the critical and theoretical world of distinguished literary and cultural critic Edward W.

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.

Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction''s genres, themes, and concepts.

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction''s genres, themes, and concepts.

Investigates selected Beckett works presenting worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation.

Investigates selected Beckett works presenting worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation.

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

This book focuses on the techniques of good prose writing, suitable for students of English literature and of creative writing.

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

This book focuses on the techniques of good prose writing, suitable for students of English literature and of creative writing.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

This book introduces readers to early American literary studies through original readings of key literary texts.

This book introduces readers to early American literary studies through original readings of key literary texts.

This Companion shows in new ways how Orwell''s most famous work continues to be a novel for our times.

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in literary studies.

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in literary studies.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines.

The first scholarly edition of this major nineteenth-century novel, exploring anarchist activity, cultural crisis, and their causes.

Networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines.

The canon of modern fantasy is in flux: this Element examines key questions raised by the fantasy canon.

Explores how bookshops like David Archer''s on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

This volume revisits important moments from 1920 to 1970, key years for Caribbean literature, to open up new perspectives.

This volume revisits important moments from 1920 to 1970, key years for Caribbean literature, to open up new perspectives.

A systematic, chronological discussion of Samuel Beckett''s interest in the works and person of Marquis de Sade.

A broad survey of Irish literature''s environmental focus, this book shows the significance of narratives in addressing the climate crisis.

The only sustained study of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, the most significant digital resource of eighteenth-century material.

A reassessment of Beckett''s alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

This Element argues that editing is computational, and that such ''computations'' enable new methods of publishing, reading, and experiences.

The only sustained study of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, the most significant digital resource of eighteenth-century material.

This Element argues that editing is computational, and that such ''computations'' enable new methods of publishing, reading, and experiences.

A broad survey of Irish literature''s environmental focus, this book shows the significance of narratives in addressing the climate crisis.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

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

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

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

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

Examine the history of the critique of edited collections, and explores the vital roles they play in collaborative scholarly communication.

A collection of approaches to the work of an essential black American author who is just as relevant now as he was during his turbulent heyday.

A collection of approaches to the work of an essential black American author who is just as relevant now as he was during his turbulent heyday.

An authoritative new history of Native American literature that places it within (rather than apart from) US settler space.

Presents the first fully annotated scholarly edition of The Bostonians, one of Henry James''s most distinctive and important tragicomedies.

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

Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), one of the world''s greatest historians.

This book provides a fresh, revisionary account of American literature before, during, and after the Civil War.