Literary reference works

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

This book examines how transition – from forced migration to revolutionary wars – shaped the development of early African American literature.

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

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

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

This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Philip Roth''s body of work.

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.

This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Philip Roth''s body of work.

Cormac McCarthy in Context places the author''s work within a host of influences that serve to illuminate his dense work.

This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present.

This book places Frederick Douglass in a variety of geographical, political, social, cultural, and literary contexts of his time.

This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period''s immense transformations.

Cormac McCarthy in Context places the author''s work within a host of influences that serve to illuminate his dense work.

This book illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.

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

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

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.

Thirty-three new essays on Richard Wright explore the crucial contexts of Wright''s trailblazing literary career.

Thirty-three new essays on Richard Wright explore the crucial contexts of Wright''s trailblazing literary career.

This book places Frederick Douglass in a variety of geographical, political, social, cultural, and literary contexts of his time.

This book illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.

This book is a comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women''s poetry across all periods by leading scholars.

This book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.

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

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period''s immense transformations.

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

This book surveys the textual representation of Cuthbert, the premier northern English saint, from the seventh to fifteenth centuries.

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.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history.

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.

This collection analyzes and explains the central contexts and themes relevant to Thomas Pynchon''s fiction.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history.

This collection analyzes and explains the central contexts and themes relevant to Thomas Pynchon''s fiction.

Explores connections between the social and political upheavals of the interwar years and British literature in that period.

Presents the final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond.

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

Explores connections between the social and political upheavals of the interwar years and British literature in that period.

The first book to examine terrorism in global literature since the Renaissance, in new essays by historians and literary critics.

Shows Wright''s art was intrinsic to his politics, grounding his exploration of the intersections between race, gender, and class.