Literary reference works books

This volume in offers a definitive account of newspaper and periodical press activity across Britain and Ireland...  Read More >>

Comprehensively sets out the cross-regional and transnational dimension of press history in early-modern Britain...  Read More >>

This is a unique collection of essays examining nineteenth-century British and Irish newspaper and periodical history...  Read More >>

Discover the Rome that has inspired writers for centuries, from the Classical era to the present day. Walk in the...  Read More >>

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Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'....  Read More >>

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers...  Read More >>

Bringing together book historians, textual editors, and new media theorists, this is an engaging and wide-ranging...  Read More >>

Offers literary histories and analyses of different genres in African literature and verbal arts. The genres covered...  Read More >>

Before gothic villains stalked industrialising Britain, spectres were haunting British plantations in the 'New World'....  Read More >>

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the...  Read More >>

Establishes Elizabeth von Arnim as an important figure in literary modernism.  Read More >>

The first curatorial studies volume to engage with the concept of 'the future'.  Read More >>

Takes on the task of interpreting, contextualising, and deconstructing To Kill a Mockingbird in the wake of Go Set...  Read More >>

Aphra Behn is renowned as the first professional woman writer in English. The plays in this volume, published and...  Read More >>

""The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth provides a comprehensive, must-have survey of interdisciplinary scholarship...  Read More >>

Imagination and Evolution is the history of that conversation, which brought what we now call science fiction into...  Read More >>

Adabi Mubahis, Fikri Zaviye gathers thirteen essays by Mehdi Ifadi that traverse literary criticism, historical...  Read More >>

A multilinguistic resource uncovering women's poetic activity across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from 1400 to 1800,...  Read More >>