Literary reference works books

Examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. The book weaves together several...  Read More >>

Author Robert Penn Warren’s fiction captures centuries worth of mythology and folklore from all across the globe,...  Read More >>

Encouraging a deep engagement with works whose personal, political, and cultural insights are specific to South...  Read More >>

Proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why...  Read More >>

Provides a careful and exhaustive reading of three of the most prominent authors in the latest wave of Mexican fiction:...  Read More >>

Offers a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer....  Read More >>

Bringing together a wide selection of work on cultural linguistics and pragmatics, this comprehensive handbook offers...  Read More >>

Examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children’s literature that they inspired,...  Read More >>

Investigates key questions that arise from the use of AI narrators. The book describes how these narratives challenge...  Read More >>

Mason & Dixon might be Thomas Pynchon’s most human book. Yet the novel is also packed with historical allusions...  Read More >>

Describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. This book...  Read More >>

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

Through a comprehensive exploration of historical conventions, genres, character diversity, and ideologies of trans...  Read More >>

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The first book to comprehensively address Yeats's engagements across the arts as both writer and cultural worker...  Read More >>

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

Encouraging a deep engagement with works whose personal, political, and cultural insights are specific to South...  Read More >>

Proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why...  Read More >>

Traces the development of W.E.B. Du Bois’s conception of whiteness, and the racism inherent to it, as an all-encompassing...  Read More >>

""Biographical entries on twenty-first-century African American poets""--  Read More >>

This book presents an exploration of autoethnography in language education research as a qualitative method with...  Read More >>

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts...  Read More >>

Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations...  Read More >>

Despite being overshadowed by the immense popularity of Anne of Green Gables, the Emily of New Moon trilogy has...  Read More >>

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts...  Read More >>