Literary reference works

Score One for the Dancing Girl presents more than a hundred stories from an early-nineteenth-century collection of yadam stories, the Kimun ch’onghwa (“Compendium of Records of Hearsay”).

In this book, Abby L.

As Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity?

Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "e;What shall we do with the negro?

Ancient Greek myths shaped and were shaped by one of the most important culture in the history of the world.

Join New York Times bestselling author Stephen Mansfield as he dives into the incredible story of Abraham Lincoln's spiritual life and draws from it a deeper meaning that's sure to inspire us all.

This book comprehensively covers the wide geographical range of the northern home fronts during the Civil War, emphasizing the diverse ways people interpreted, responded to, and adapted to war by their ideas, interests, and actions.

An exploration of the elusive nature of representation in Plath''s poetry and the various versions of her that readers encounter.

This text presents a comprehensive dictionary of characters, places, objects and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.

This title was originally published in 1951.

Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century.

Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes and moments of great beauty.

John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839' is a record of the a year he spent in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Holland, primarily for his father, Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States.

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials.

The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration.

Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War.

First published in 1986.

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

This Companion addresses an exciting emerging field of literary scholarship that charts the intersections of postcolonial studies and travel writing.

At two o'clock in the morning on 27 April 1865, seven miles north of Memphis on the Mississippi, the sidewheel steamboat Sultana's boilers suddenly exploded.

New fully annotated edition of Bickerstaff papers, ''Polite Conversation'', ''Directions to Servants'' and other works by Jonathan Swift.

This title, first published in 1970, consists of essays on the individual tales and novels of George Eliot, with two general essays that discuss the novels as a whole and cuts across the individual works.

Colloquial Yoruba: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Yoruba as it is written and spoken today.

In this book, Abby L.

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

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes''s storied career.

An examination of an important campaign between these two generals that set the scene for the pending war.

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material.

Winner of the 2013 Eudora Welty PrizeEudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life.

This volume explores Caribbean literature from 1800–1920 across genres and in the multiple languages of the Caribbean.

Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin.

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved-a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.

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Too often we turn prayer into well-intentioned patterns of our own making.

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.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet (c.

This chief aim of this title, first published in 1965, is to present a comprehensive picture of Yeats's achievement and some of the means for an evaluation of that achievement.

The Victorian Era saw a revolution in communication technology.

In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S.

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century.

Two novellas by S.

Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific writer.

This book uncovers the 1960s as they were experienced by America''s greatest authors.

First published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-1950.

A state-of-the-field review of critical perspectives on the work of Anthony Trollope.