Literary reference works books

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez,...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how Latinx literature for young readers reveals the oppressions that affect the everyday lives of Latinx...  Read More >>

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a...  Read More >>

By examining the book, the play and the film, Choose Life, Choose Leith both critically analyses the Trainspotting...  Read More >>

Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. This investigation...  Read More >>

Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions...  Read More >>

Analyses how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican...  Read More >>

An insightful volume that delves into land-based Dine and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories - oral, literary,...  Read More >>

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra...  Read More >>

Offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories...  Read More >>

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Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

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

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Features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative...  Read More >>

Presents essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity. This volume...  Read More >>

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

Examines Jane Austen's engagement with the broad range of artistic practices featured in her work  Read More >>

Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions...  Read More >>

Delves into how Mexican creators have reported, analysed, distended and refracted the violent world of neoliberal...  Read More >>

The contributions to this volume not only indicate the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of cutting-edge research...  Read More >>

Re-examines Charles Dickens's under-recognised importance to nineteenth-century and contemporary understandings...  Read More >>

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Features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the...  Read More >>

Features the full text of the play, published for the first time, along with a collection of essays exploring the...  Read More >>