Literature: Start Here

A comprehensive single-volume literary survey is for the student, scholar, and general reader that includes entries on African American Literature, Children's Literature, Drama, Feminism, Film and Literature, History and Literature, Humor, Jewish American Literature, Latino/a Literature, Modernism, Politics and Literature, Religion and Literature, The Short Story, The South, Transcendentalism, Utopia, and Young Adult Literature.

This book is a comprehensive guide to all British literature, including literature in English from the colonial and postcolonial periods in Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, and New Zealand. Important authors from these areas are covered in substantive topical articles on their respective literatures.

Includes essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists, as well as major works and essays on literary movements, periods, and themes.

Provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin).

This comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context of English literature covers the core periods of literature, and history, from the English Renaissance to the present. This work provides a series of timelines showing political, social, cultural and literary events for each year.