Literary reference works

Presents the first fully annotated scholarly edition of The Bostonians, one of Henry James''s most distinctive and important tragicomedies.

Describes how interwar modernism responded to the global crisis in the liberal world order after 1919.

This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre and examines its role, impact and development.

The city''s literature is explored in this volume, which reveals a metropolis in a constant state of movement.

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

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

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

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

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

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

This volume reframes mid-century African American literature as highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries.

This volume considers texts produced between 1800 and 1830, exploring themes such as print culture, Illustration and the narrative form.

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

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

This volume offers exciting new approaches to the historical contexts, global coordinates, and present reverberations of antebellum American literature.

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

This book explores American literature and culture of the First World War while analyzing the war''s historical context and significance.

Examines debates central to postwar British culture, showing the pressures of reconstruction and the mutual implication of war and peace.

This book provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War.

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.

Showcases the diversity and rich complexity of literature in Ireland in the eighteenth century.

The city''s literature is explored in this volume, which reveals a metropolis in a constant state of movement.

Explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of literary affect.

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.

Showcases the diversity and rich complexity of literature in Ireland in the eighteenth century.

Drawing on anthropology, philology, linguistics, history, archaeology, cultural and literary studies, this book presents and synthesizes the best Homeric research available.

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.

Shows how the concept of decadence has evolved into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power.

It offers an overview of literary Decadence, expanding the range of writers, locales, and time periods that make up Decadence.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.

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

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

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

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

This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change.

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.

Offers accessible and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of boxing around the globe.

Offers accessible and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of boxing around the globe.

Provides accessible essays by leading international scholars, offering up-to-date insights into the key contexts to Lawrence''s life, career and legacy.

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

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

An exciting new Companion exploring the study of how stories work and of how we make them work.

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