Literary reference works books

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 novelists, poets, playwrights and other...  Read More >>

This book provides a theoretical and pragmatic guide to the use of situated learning within structured interpreting...  Read More >>

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Wildsam Field Guides: New Orleans is a story-based travel guide for the best experience of the one-of-a-kind Louisana...  Read More >>

An entirely original look at the evolution of a cultural phenomenon. As John Edgar Browning puts it in his Foreword,...  Read More >>

This book offers lively and accessible essays that explore Frederick Douglass in a variety of geographical, political,...  Read More >>

An informative and thorough companion to Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography of Melville...  Read More >>

Are you looking for a lesson in language and in life? If the answer is yes, look no further. Luckily for us, Italians...  Read More >>

"In Searching for Harry Chapin's America, journalist Pat Fenton describes his road trips to the towns and people...  Read More >>

Are you looking for a lesson in language and in life? If the answer is yes, look no further. Luckily for us, Italians...  Read More >>

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The best of Paterson's 'clever, addictive and funny' aphorisms - now in paperback.  Read More >>

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For many nineteenth-century Russians, poetry was woven into everyday life. Blending close literary analysis with...  Read More >>

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Written for students at all levels, this tightly focused book situates Jane Austen in her time, and for all times....  Read More >>

Women's tanci are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early...  Read More >>

Written in accessible language and of interest and use to undergraduates and seasoned critics, At Arm's Length provides...  Read More >>

These interviews expose the remarkable consistency of Steve Erickson's vision over time while simultaneously capturing...  Read More >>

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In this first book of essays devoted entirely to Nathaniel Mackey's work, critics respond to a major oeuvre that...  Read More >>

Offers the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate's novels and brings to the fore an...  Read More >>

Shahrokh Meskoob was one of Iran's leading intellectuals and a preeminent scholar of Persian literary traditions,...  Read More >>

Women's tanci are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early...  Read More >>