Literary reference works

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they''re more closely aligned than they typically appear.

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.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they''re more closely aligned than they typically appear.

Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660–1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.

Offers penetrating, original analyses of the literature of 1660–1714 in relation to generic, ideological, cultural, and local transitions.

Explores the place of the concept of climate in literature from the classical age to the contemporary.

Explores the place of the concept of climate in literature from the classical age to the contemporary.

This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature.

A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats'' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

A wide-ranging exploration of the influence of Keats'' world on his life and work, enhancing our engagement with his poems.

This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature.

Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

Interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, as it confronts racism.

Law and Literature presents a comprehensive overview of literature''s critical interest in and historical interactions with ideas of law and justice.

The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on how time shapes our thinking about literature.

Examines the varied, enormously sophisticated contents of the Bible and sees how certain Western authors were inspired by them.

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Shows how African Americans used the written word to respond to and drive the events and institutions of this period.

Interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, as it confronts racism.

Law and Literature presents a comprehensive overview of literature''s critical interest in and historical interactions with ideas of law and justice.

The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on how time shapes our thinking about literature.

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

Charts the transitions in African American literature and culture that took shape after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance.

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

Charts the transitions in African American literature and culture that took shape after Reconstruction, but before the Harlem Renaissance.

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Accessible and informative account of Dante''s great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

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.

Accessible and informative account of Dante''s great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

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.

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

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

First comprehensive critical edition of Under the Greenwood Tree (1872) analyses Hardy''s many revisions and offers essential contextual material.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

The life and works of Samuel Richardson (1689–1761) are explored through essays on their historical, literary, intellectual and cultural contexts.