Literary reference works

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

The first full scholarly edition of Desperate Remedies (1871), Thomas Hardy''s first published novel.

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

This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change.

This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

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

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

Offers a radically new picture of the ''long 1930s'', describing it as a pivot of twentieth-century literary and cultural production.

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a range of authors, texts, genres and movements.

This volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a range of authors, texts, genres and movements.

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

From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.

An innovative volume offering a remapping of a crucial period in Irish literary history based on contemporary developments in scholarship.

A provocative range of essays on twentieth-century Irish authors, critics and culture framed in contexts of transition and transnationalism.

From Homer to the moon, this volume explores the epic journey across space and time in the ancient world.

An innovative volume offering a remapping of a crucial period in Irish literary history based on contemporary developments in scholarship.

A provocative range of essays on twentieth-century Irish authors, critics and culture framed in contexts of transition and transnationalism.

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

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

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

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

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

Showcases cutting-edge research into this most famous tradition of European theatre, presented in English for the first time.

American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 explores how American literary culture responded to the gaudiest, most gauche of 20th-century decades.

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

A new collection of essays that offers exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.

This volume offers an overview of the major transitions that occurred in American literary culture between 2000 and 2010.

This collection provides crucial contexts for interpreting the literature of the 1940s, showing how writers intervened in the global struggles of the decade.

A proactive, in-depth investigation of essential themes, formats, and institutions in 1910s American literature and culture, counterpointing continuity and innovation.

This book explores the dynamics of literary change in the 1990s for American literature.

The first ever history of autobiographical writing in Ireland, based on original scholarship, and structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and writers.

This book outlines the cultural and historical contexts in which crime fiction participates, surveying the ideas animating its study today.

This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.