Subject Guide: Literature

Presents the 25 most spiritually influential and important books for Christians to read.

Guide to nearly 800 award-winning historical fiction for Kindergarten through 8th grade will assist all parties in the selection of high quality literature.

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

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

Includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the 18990s, as well as the attempts to resist them.

Examines the continuing impact of Greek and Roman drama, literature and art on the cultures of societies that have emerged from colonial domination.

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

Covers poetry from over 40 countries and the history of poetry from antiquity to the 21st century.

Collection of conversations regarding the development and future of the literary canon.

Comprehensive information about the literary works, writers, and concepts of literature from approximately 1500 to 1660 CE in Europe, China, India, Japan, the Islamic world, and the Jewish diaspora, the New World, Africa, and Oceania.

Excerpts more than 200 feminist primary source documents from Africa to Asia to the Americas to Australia.

Includes excerpts from 30 of the greatest works in western literature and essays about those works written by distinguished professors, lecturers, and authors.

Compares the factual details of an event, political or artistic movement, or life with the literary treatment it inspired.

Equips readers to become better writers by introducing quality writing with over 60 classic and contemporary selections from numerous writers.

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

Provides an overview of the main themes, issues, and critical perspectives that have had the greatest effect on postcolonial literatures.

Profiles the censorship of many essential works of literature.

Covers over 500 classic and contemporary works of Christian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, providing a plot summary, analysis of Christian themes, and an annotated bibliography for each title.

Reviews and evaluates picturebooks with a multicultural theme for grades K-4.

Analyzes the criticism of English-language literature from the major regions and countries of the postcolonial world.

Defines postmodernism, compares and contrasts it with modernism, and places it in its historical context, and discusses the major theorists of postmodernism.

Develops a history of literacy between the middle of the 16th century and the middle of the 17th century by focusing on how Protestant and Catholic paradigms of the Word affect the understanding of how meaning manifests itself in language.

Captures and examines sociological insights in 32 essays that discuss scholars and writers not normally associated with any sociological school of thought.

Comprehensive collection of Nadine Gordimer's nonfiction works - from reports on the 1976 Soweto uprising and observations of Zimbabe at the dawn of independence to portraits of such figures as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

Argues that the private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism.

Several of today's finest writers introduce little-known treasures of literature that they count among their favorite books.

Examines novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence.

Examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism.

Helps students and researchers make connections between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves.

Contains 100 of the greatest poems written by 48 women in English over the past 150 years.

Examines 19th-century social, political, and representational literacies and reading practices to reveal how Black women's complex and confrontational commentary often expressed directly in their journalistic prose and organizational involvement.

Profiles and works of 78 writers from the first 200 years of African American literature.

Summary of the story of black America through literature.

Profiles 46 poets from the 19th Century to the present.

Explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the 20th century.

Argues that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures.

Essays on the lives and literary achievements of black American writers from the first slave narratives down to contemporary figures.

Examines the role of women poets of African descent in shaping the history of the Americas.

Guide to the Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937), the most influential single movement in African American literary history.

Comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States.

Explores the period's vigorous exchange about the nature and identity of black childhood and uncovers the networks of African Americans who worked together to transmit black history and culture to the next generation.

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

Exclusively indexes to poetry by African Americans.

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

Comprehensive study of the modern American novel.

Guide to the creative output of the U.S. in the postwar period after the Vietnam War.

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

Gives readers the opportunity to listen in on the author's thoughtful conversations with ten contemporary writers,
especially for what they say about "wrestling with the sacred" in their writing.

Offers a collection of interviews with America's youngest and first female African American Poet Laureate.

Covers poetry from over 40 countries and the history of poetry from antiquity to the 21st century.

Argue that the democratic ideal and practice of equality are grounded less in government documents written by a handful of white men than in the actions and writings of the radical abolitionists of the 19th century.

John Updike's 6th collection of literary biographies and essays on various topics.

Contains entries on 168 writers of African-American descent writing in all forms.

Detailed profiles of African American writers, organizations, publications, and topics.

Guide to the history and development of feminist literature, from early fairy tales to works by great women writers of today.

Provides a narrative history of African American children's literature in relation to its social contexts.

Examines southern women writers and explores the craft of writing while tracing her own development from rebellious college student to award-winning author of 19 books.

The basics on the issues, events and people of African American literature.

Presents biographies and thematic entries on American writers selected because of their ethnicity.

Recounts the full adventures of Harriet Jacobs, before and after slavery.

Collects three decades of writings from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s many fields of interest and expertise.

Practical and amusing guide to literature that unlocks hidden truths and discovers the world of the works.

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

Examines the key developments that have shaped the growing body of poems by and about Black women since the end of slavery and Reconstruction.

Comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000.

Uses previously unpublished letters by women writers to explore the act and art of writing from diverse perspectives and experiences.

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

Gives analysis and criticism on recent novels and other works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Guide to selecting high-quality examples of multicultural literature.

Features authors from various countries and cultures who have lived in a culture other than their own and written about their experiences.

Explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths.

Examines case studies of British, Caribbean, and American poetries from the 1920s through the 1990s.

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?

Profiles 80 significant African American literature writers spanning from the 18th century to the present.

Shows that conceptions of privacy in the 19th century became meaningful only when posed in opposition to the encroaching forces of market capitalism and commodification.

Documents Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to 19th-century New England, the African slave trade, and 20th-century race activism in the North.

Offers the 1st full-length biography of the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book and only the 2nd woman of any race or background to do so in America.

Anthology of African American women's literature that covers poems, essays, journal entries, and short stories to novels and black feminist criticism in the 18th century through the early 21st century.

Each chapter is devoted to a particular novel and provides a plot summary, an overview of the work's historical background, a literary analysis, and suggestions for further reading.

Explores why African American writers-whether born in Mississippi, New York, or elsewhere-have consistently both loved and hated the South.

Takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of many house museums of well-known American authors.

Presents the history of the 20th-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices.

Addresses the ways literature and theory have engaged with literary criticism, philosophy, and history and related concerns.

Examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stowe's enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a "theology of whiteness" from within the pages of the books.

Consists of entries related to literature by and about African American women.