Literary reference works books

This highly useful series presents substantial excerpts from the best criticism on the major literary figures and...  Read More >>

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and...  Read More >>

Despite its debt to French thought for theoretical constructs, masculinity studies have been dominated by work on...  Read More >>

Contemporary Literary Criticism covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Each...  Read More >>

What do men like to read? This latest title in the successful 100 Must-Read series provides a rich crop of selected...  Read More >>

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and...  Read More >>

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< P>Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume...  Read More >>

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Each volume in this series presents biographical and critical information on four to eight short story writers and...  Read More >>

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Through a literary analysis exploring genre, themes, topics, emphasis, context, and models, this study finds The...  Read More >>

While classifying the pregnant condition as a state of captivity might elicit negative connotations, Marotte underscores...  Read More >>

Within these pages are hundreds of facts, figures, stories and trivia about reading and writing, from the earliest...  Read More >>

Noted Lovecraftian scholar Joshi details the works of classic Mythos authors and reviews some of the more modern...  Read More >>

Professor Douglas Gifford, Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, explores James...  Read More >>

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‘Thrawn Janet’ (1881) and ‘Markheim’ (1885) have the diabolical as their theme, and their sinister settings and...  Read More >>

Maps changing landscapes of criminal flight in American texts by focusing on the twenty years between 1932 and 1952,...  Read More >>

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Traces Walter Mosley's distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness...  Read More >>

In this volume, essayists ask how overlooked literature in the 1950s addressed or anticipated the struggles of disenfranchised...  Read More >>

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Provides excerpts from criticism of the works of authors who lived between 1400 and 1800. Designed to complement...  Read More >>