Literary reference works

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

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes''s work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

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

This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.

This volume traces the history of travel writing in several national and linguistic traditions from antiquity to the Internet age.

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

This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J.

This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.

The definitive text on the social, intellectual and theatrical conditions within which Molière operated and his subsequent impact worldwide.

The first collection of essays charting the origins, developments, and applications of literary food studies, by leading scholars who have shaped the field.

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

The essays in this book reflect upon the central role that the apocalypse has played in American literature and culture.

Offers the first comprehensive survey of literature by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day.

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

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

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

This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.

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

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

Brings together experts who inform new readings of Ted Hughes''s work, with a new awareness of his posthumous importance.

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J.

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Gives a comprehensive critical picture of the development of British fiction from the election of Thatcher to the present.

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

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

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

The first collection of essays charting the origins, developments, and applications of literary food studies, by leading scholars who have shaped the field.

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

Focuses on adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms.

This volume traces the history of travel writing in several national and linguistic traditions from antiquity to the Internet age.

Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children''s book market.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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