Literary reference works

This book offers authoritative critical and historical study of the Australian novel from the colonial past to the present day.

On September 7, 1864, William Whitlock, aged thirty-five, left his wife and four children in Allegany, New York, to join the Union army in battle.

First published in 1970.

The third installment of this award-winning Civil War series offers a vivid and authoritative chronicle of Meade and Lee's conflict after Gettysburg.

When her 1912 story collection, Mrs.

Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.

Die mythische Figur Athamas ist in die Literaturgeschichte als Prototyp des durch die Götter mit Wahnsinn gestraen Menschen eingegangen: Er tötet seinen Sohn Learchos, verfolgt seine Frau Ino und seinen anderen Sohn Melikertes und zwingt sie dazu, sich ins Meer zu stürzen.

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.

This book revaluates American literary culture through the lens of historical climate representations, as well as recent climate science.

This is the third volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period February 1858-June 1877.

The revised edition of The Canadian Style is an indispensable language guide for editors, copywriters, students, teachers, lawyers, journalists, secretaries and business people - in fact, anyone writing in the English language in Canada today.

This title, first published in 1990, is a census of the manuscripts of William Butler Yeats.

A fully illustrated narrative of the Maryland campaign 1862, culminating in Antietam, the bloodiest single day in American military history.

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

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

A nineteen-year-old chemistry major at Rhodes College is selected to spend the summer after her freshman year doing research at St.

Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste Monographie über das gesamte Erzählwerk Cécile Wajsbrots.

Given a life spent in scholarship and controversy, it is easy to forget how much energy Martin Luther devoted to helping the common person understand and take comfort from Gods word.

Vividly written and well researched by a noted historian of the period, this succinct history credits the Union Navy as an essential element in the northern victory.

In April 1865, as the Civil War came to a close, Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed enslaved people.

Winner, 2014, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardRichmond Redeemed pioneered study of Civil War Petersburg.

Translated into English for the first time, Andres Avelino de Orihuela's El Sol de Jesus del Monte is a landmark Cuban antislavery novel.

New Aphorisms & Reflections: Third Series, the sixth volume in a sequence which began with 222: Aphorisms & Reflections, features more than 450 entries, some of which are autobiographical.

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

History of how, over many centuries, French thinkers have revolutionized European thought about knowledge, religion, politics, and society.

First published in 2001.

"e;What if Luke had to reteach the basic lessons of his history of the early church?

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

"Begegnungen" ist eine sehr persönliche Biographie von Joseph P.

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837.

Originally published in 1993, The Medieval Charlemagne Legend is a selective bibliography for the literary scholar, of historical and literary material relating to Charlemagne.

Discover over 300 seasonal book recommendations in the ultimate reading list for book lovers everywhere.

The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C.

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of twenty-four essays written by Frank Kermode between 1958 and early 1961, and are all concerned with criticism and fiction.

Während die Frage nach dem richtigen Lernort, insbesondere nach außerschulischen Lernorten, in der Schulpädagogik schon vor längerer Zeit gestellt und zumindest ansatzweise beantwortet wurde, hat sich die Fremdsprachenforschung mit der Lernortfrage vergleichsweise viel Zeit gelassen.

Provides a thorough overview of Ian McEwan''s fiction, articulating his place in the canon of contemporary fiction.

Winner of the 2023 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for best book in the category of Jewish literature and linguistics Traditionally the scene of some of London's poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods, the East End of London has long been misunderstood as abject and deviant.

Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published?

The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students.

Parallaxing Joyce is a groundbreaking collection of critical essays, as it approaches James Joyce's work using parallactic principles as its overriding theoretical framework.

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

In Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond.

Recent literary criticism, along with academic culture at large, has stressed collaboration as essential to textual creation and sociability as a literary and academic virtue.