Literary reference works books

Offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories...  Read More >>

Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society....  Read More >>

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Howard O'Hagan was one of the first native-born westerners to make a mark on Canadian literature. The purpose of...  Read More >>

Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. This investigation...  Read More >>

Features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative...  Read More >>

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Features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the...  Read More >>

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A pioneering study of the novels and other writings of Arkansan Charles Portis (1933-2020), best known for the novel...  Read More >>

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Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions...  Read More >>

The contributions to this volume not only indicate the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of cutting-edge research...  Read More >>

Examines Jane Austen's engagement with the broad range of artistic practices featured in her work  Read More >>

Re-examines Charles Dickens's under-recognised importance to nineteenth-century and contemporary understandings...  Read More >>

Features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the...  Read More >>

This book contains important and useful essays based on the research and analysis of pornography in Urdu literature....  Read More >>

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art...  Read More >>

Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such...  Read More >>

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Examines the extent to which the politics of respectability diminish joy and increase sorrow throughout the lifespan...  Read More >>

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Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such...  Read More >>

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