Literary reference works

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

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.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Charts the transitions in African American literature and culture that took shape after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Charts the transitions in African American literature and culture that took shape after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance.

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Accessible and informative account of Dante''s great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

Accessible and informative account of Dante''s great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

First comprehensive critical edition of Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) analyses Hardy''s many revisions and offers essential contextual material.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

The life and works of Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) are explored through essays on their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.

The life and works of Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) are explored through essays on their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.

Examines how seventeenth-century literature engaged with - expressed, shaped, and was influenced by - the tumultuous period in which it was composed.

Explores how different genres of early modern literature both shape and respond to rapid historical transformations of their time.

Examines how seventeenth-century literature engaged with - expressed, shaped, and was influenced by - the tumultuous period in which it was composed.

Explores how different genres of early modern literature both shape and respond to rapid historical transformations of their time.

Provides readings, interpretations, and explorations of Whitman in the many contexts through which he charted his life and wrote his texts.

Provides readings, interpretations, and explorations of Whitman in the many contexts through which he charted his life and wrote his texts.

Challenges the widespread misconception that the American 1950s was a placid decade with a literature to match.

The most comprehensive critical treatment of American letters in the 1920s.

The first extended synoptic treatment in English of literature and religion in the German-speaking world.

Challenges the widespread misconception that the American 1950s was a placid decade with a literature to match.

The most comprehensive critical treatment of American letters in the 1920s.

The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present day.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

This scholarly edition includes the final ten stories Henry James wrote, and provides extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes.

Offers indispensable interdisciplinary contexts for reading the wide-ranging philosophical, critical, and literary works of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Offers indispensable interdisciplinary contexts for reading the wide-ranging philosophical, critical, and literary works of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Anthology providing an indispensable guide to the environment of Shakespeare''s England and a helpful reference resource for Renaissance ecocriticism.

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

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

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

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

This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.

This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets.

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets.

This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.