Literary reference works books

First Published in 2001. The purpose of this collection is to assist the growing interest in Old English prose by...  Read More >>

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

Highlights an enduring feature of African American letters. Gena E. Chandler argues that wanderers and the theme...  Read More >>

Argues that humour performs political, cultural, and social functions in the wake of horror. David Slucki, Gabriel...  Read More >>

From the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of US race relations, the African American novel...  Read More >>

Offers original perspectives on racial representations in antebellum American print culture and provides a new understanding...  Read More >>

Thanks to the success of franchises such as The Hunger Games and Twilight, young adult literature has reached a...  Read More >>

Takes an expansive view of Jewish American literature, beginning with writing from the earliest colonies in the...  Read More >>

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Addresses questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx...  Read More >>

While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has increased in recent...  Read More >>

Offers the first book-length discussion of West Virginia writer and activist Denise Giardina, perhaps best known...  Read More >>

Follows Mark Twain's last lecture tour as he wound his way through the British Empire in 1895-1896. Deftly blending...  Read More >>

In Understanding Susan Sontag, Carl Rollyson not only provides an introduction to her essays, novels, plays, films,...  Read More >>

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While critical and popular attention afforded to twenty-first-century young adult literature has increased in recent...  Read More >>

Addresses questions of outsider identities and how these identities are shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx...  Read More >>

Establishing the “dandy” as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness,...  Read More >>

Portrays a new William Faulkner - a man of astonishing paradoxes. Based on extensive interviews with family and...  Read More >>

"""MACBETH"" is one of Shakespeare's shortest dramas, but also one of his densest in terms of action and language....  Read More >>

DISCLAIMER: This is a book summary of Sh m l - A S xu l R f rm t n B N d B lz-W b r and is not the original...  Read More >>

DISCLAIMER: This is a book summary of F d F x - H w to Save Our H lth, Our E n m , Our C mmun t , nd Our Pl...  Read More >>

DISCLAIMER: This is a book summary of Th S nd the Tr t r - Th Greatest Espionage St r f the Cold W r b Ben...  Read More >>