Literary reference works books

Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin’s first novel, At Fault. The...  Read More >>

Calls for a renewed definition of Palestinian writing, one that includes Anglophone, Nordic, Latinate, and Hebrew...  Read More >>

Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe’s Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne’s...  Read More >>

In this comprehensive and accessible book, Dean Krouk examines a significant public figure in Scandinavian literature...  Read More >>

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In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy Lettman explores real and imagined violence as depicted in Caribbean and Jamaican...  Read More >>

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Examines Faulkner’s characters, events, locations, and visualizations, as well as offering more theoretical reflections...  Read More >>

Drawing on the popular press, unpublished personal correspondence, and archival documents, Catherine Ingrassia provides...  Read More >>

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Examines the romance genre in the twenty-first century, and the ways in which it responds to and influences the...  Read More >>

Presents fifteen essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat’s writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, (re)construct,...  Read More >>

A timely anthology that examines, interrogates, and critiques representations of race and difference across various...  Read More >>

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Introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from ‘Beetle Eyes’ to the ‘Shoplifter’s Dilemma’ and from ‘Hands...  Read More >>

A timely anthology that examines, interrogates, and critiques representations of race and difference across various...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

Re-examining critical assumptions about the reading experience of epic fantasy, this work explores the genre’s reputation...  Read More >>

This book """" The Jade Flute: Chinese Poems in Prose """", has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

This book """" Iermola """", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is...  Read More >>

This book """" The Iliad of Homer (1873) """", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so...  Read More >>