Literary reference works

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to J.

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.

Provides a new account of the years that formed the crucible of Irish writing in English.

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

Gives a comprehensive critical picture of the development of British fiction from the election of Thatcher to the present.

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

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

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

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

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

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

This book illustrates African American writers'' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.

Illuminates the pleasures and challenges of Shakespeare''s complex language for today''s students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers.

Places Mark Twain in the literary, historical, and cultural contexts of his time.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The first collection of essays charting the origins, developments, and applications of literary food studies, by leading scholars who have shaped the field.

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

A comprehensive, global, cutting-edge study of magical realism exploring its history, development, and relevance to real-world issues.

Situates the works of Borges within the contexts of family and culture, Argentine and world history, and reception and afterlife.

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

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

Focuses on adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms.

This volume traces the history of travel writing in several national and linguistic traditions from antiquity to the Internet age.

Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children''s book market.

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

This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

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

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world''s most influential artists.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

A volume of early critical intervention into the features of contemporary Irish and Northern Irish authors, writing, and cultural practice.

This book features 27 integrated essays that offer access to the art, life, and legacy of one of the world''s most influential artists.

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

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Accessible, authoritative essays putting one of Britain''s best-loved, but seemingly isolated, poet-artists back in touch with his times.

Leading historians introduce the most influential trends in thought which originated or developed in the nineteenth century.

Accessible, authoritative essays putting one of Britain''s best-loved, but seemingly isolated, poet-artists back in touch with his times.

Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.

Leading historians introduce the most influential trends in thought which originated or developed in the nineteenth century.

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

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

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

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

Provides a new account of the years that formed the crucible of Irish writing in English.

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.