Literary reference works

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.

This Companion is an authoritative, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the key works, genres, and movements of postmodern American fiction.

One of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history - a compass for future scholarship.

One of the first major reference works to cover four centuries of black and Asian British literary history - a compass for future scholarship.