Literary reference works books

Provides acomprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism...  Read More >>

Provides the first book-length study of The Piazza Tales - Herman Melville’s only authorized collection of short...  Read More >>

The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you...  Read More >>

This new edition of this British epistolary novel examines the theme of female agency, and is an excellent example...  Read More >>

Provides the first book-length study of The Piazza Tales - Herman Melville’s only authorized collection of short...  Read More >>

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

"""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Latest issue consulted: Vol. 155, copyrighted 2009.  Read More >>

Latest issue consulted: Vol. 207, copyrighted 2009.  Read More >>

Presents literary criticism on the works of short-story writers of all nations, cultures, and time periods. Critical...  Read More >>

Each volume of this reference provides substantial critical essays and biographical information on four to eight...  Read More >>

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

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

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental...  Read More >>

In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the...  Read More >>

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Offers an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The ‘fantastical’ in fantastical...  Read More >>

Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell...  Read More >>

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research...  Read More >>

An appreciation of Apuleius’s The Golden Ass – arguably the first-ever novel – is followed by a consideration of...  Read More >>

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental...  Read More >>

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In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the...  Read More >>

Offers an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The ‘fantastical’ in fantastical...  Read More >>