Subject Guide: Literature

Covers over 14,000 titles of some classics, but mostly published between late 1999 and 2003.

Reading guide and selection tool for 12,000 fiction and nonfiction teen titles published from 2001 to 2003

Presents new historical perspectives and critical approaches to the classic authors and texts of English literature produced in the late 17th and 18th centuries.

New translation and collection of the tales in one volume.

Comprehensive interpretive history of novels written by African Americans from 1853 to 2001.

Included 1,100 biographical-critical entries and 100 topical articles, written by some 150 contributors, covering 150 years of children's literature in many cultures

Examines the relationship between theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the works of Oscar Wilde.

Introduces nearly 90 of the world's most entertaining classic books.

Brings together elements of modernist culture, contemporary intellectual and aesthetic movements, and all the genres of modernist writing and art.

Connects the critical views expressed in feminist and psychoanalytic interpretations with fictional fairy-tale retellings and illustrations published in Dutch, English, and German since the 1970s.

Proposes a poetics of narrative for postmodernism by placing new emphasis on the folktale.

Contains 75 Fables in original French with new English line-for-line literal translations.

Features nearly 500 stories that were volunteered by fifty children between the ages of 2 and 10 and transcribed word for word.

Offers comprehensive coverage of the subject across the world, with substantial, accessible, articles by specialists and world-ranking experts.

Explores the personal and professional histories of writers such as, W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, and Sean O'Casey and examines their relationships with the people, culture, and landscapes of Ireland.

Tracks the evolution of Modernism from its emergence in the late 19th century to its recent incarnations.

Study of the African American novel that seeks to answer the question: what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel, and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel?

Reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects themselves, played a far more important role in shaping the landscape of modernism than has been previously acknowledged.