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African American Poets: Lives, Works and Sources. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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The Age of Auden - Postwar Poetry and the American Scene. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
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Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon. New Haven: Yale University Press
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The Bibliography of American Literature. Yale University Press, 9 vols.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Biography. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
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Contemporary American Women Poets : An A to Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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Critical Survey of Poetry. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 4th ed, 14 vols.
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Essays in Biography. Mount Jackson, VA: Axios Press
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Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600. New York: Facts On File
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 17th and 18th Centuries. New York: Facts On File
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The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry: 1900 to the Present. New York: Facts On File
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The Literary 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Novelists, Playwrights and Poets of All Time. New York: Facts on File
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A Poet's High Argument: Elizabeth Bishop and Christianity. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press
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Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press
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Translation and the Poet's Life: The Ethics of Translating in English Culture, 1646-1726. New York: Oxford University Press
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Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press
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L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz: A Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press
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The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum. New York, NY: Gotham Books
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Through the Looking Glass: Further Adventures and Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature. Boston: David R. Godine, Publishe
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Austen, Eliot, Charlotte Brontë and the Mentor-Lover. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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A Brontë Family Chronology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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The Bronte Myth. New York: Knopf
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The Brontes A to Z: The Essential Reference to Their Lives and Work. New York: Facts On File
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The Brontes at Haworth. London: Frances Lincoln
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The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors - The Story of Three Sisters. New York: Pegasus Books
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The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf. New York: Cambridge University Press
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The Company of the Creative: The Company of the Creative : A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its Themes. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1999
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Gold and Dross: A Christian Perspective on Fifteen World-Class Writers. Irving, Tex. : Grace Evangelical Society
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Jane Eyre's American Daughters: From the Wide, Wide World to Anne of Green Gables: A Study of Marginalized Maidens and What They Mean. Newark: University of Delaware Press
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The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillian,
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The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. New York: Oxford University Press
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Reading the Brontë Body: Disease, Desire, and the Constraints of Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Austen to Eliot. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
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Who Killed Iago?: A Book of Fiendishly Challenging Literary Quizzes. New York: Penguin
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The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
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Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press
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Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
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The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language, and Nation in the Hundred Years War. Oxford: Oxford University Press
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Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430-1530. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland. New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.
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Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press
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Reading the Middle Ages: An Introduction to Medieval Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland
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Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Who Killed Iago?: A Book of Fiendishly Challenging Literary Quizzes. New York: Penguin
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Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press
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American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James. New York : Oxford University Press,
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The Annotated Emerson. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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The Concord Quartet: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
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Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed. New Haven: Yale University Press
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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
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Emerson: A National Icon for a Post-National Age. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic Light of All Our Day. Columbia: University of Missouri Press
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Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists. New York: Oxford University Press
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From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Chelsea House, Updated ed.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance: A Modern-Day Interpretation of a Self-Help Classic. Oxford, UK: Infinite Ideas
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Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Signet Classic
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Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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Gold and Dross: A Christian Perspective on Fifteen World-Class Writers. Irving, Tex. : Grace Evangelical Society
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The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain. New York: Palgrave Macmillian,
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Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890-1930. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
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Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. New York: Continuum
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Thomas Hardy, Metaphysics and Music. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Alice Walker and Arnold Rampersad discuss Langston Hughes with Bruce Schwartz about the experiences shaping Langston's youth, how he became a writer, the beauty and style of his writing, and the Harlem renaissance
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Which Sin to Bear?: Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
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Fictions of Autonomy. New York: Oxford University Press
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Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon. Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press
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Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
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Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
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Literary Paths to Religious Understanding: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and E. B. White. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
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Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press
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Modernism on Fleet Street. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
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Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West. Washington, DC: National Geographic
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Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890-1930. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
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The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse: Chekhov to Carver. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press
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Theorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf. New York: Routledge
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Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development. New York: Oxford University Press
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World Views: Metageographies of Modernist Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press
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Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press
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Gold and Dross: A Christian Perspective on Fifteen World-Class Writers. Irving, Tex. : Grace Evangelical Society
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A Historical Guide to Herman Melville. New York: Oxford University Press
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Melville's Bibles. Berkeley: University of California Press
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Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press
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Melville: His World and Work. New York: Knopf
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Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,
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Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori. New York: Oxford University Press
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Poe. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
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Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
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Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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Follows Ezra Pound’s extraordinary course, from his collaborations with Yeats and Eliot through his years of detention at St. Elizabeths Hospital.
The Great War and the Language of Modernism. New York: Oxford University Press
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Ezra Pound - Poet, a Portrait of the Man and His Work: The Young Genius, 1885-1920. New York: Oxford University Press
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Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce. New York: Oxford University Press
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Darwin the Writer. New York: Oxford University Press
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Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue. New York: Oxford University Press
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Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
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Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton, Politics, and Fiction Before World War I. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race. New York: Cambridge University Press
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A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton. New York: Oxford University Press
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History in Literature: A Reader's Guide to 20th Century History and the Literature It Inspired. New York: Facts On File
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Collected Critical Writings. New York: Oxford University Press
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From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press
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Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,
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Walt Whitman. New York: Oxford University Press
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Walt Whitman's Reconstruction: Poetry and Publishing between Memory and History. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press
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Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle. New York: Cambridge University Press
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The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore and Ireland. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press
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Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press
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Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida
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Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Collected Critical Writings. New York: Oxford University Press
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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
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Finding Ireland: A Poet's Explorations of Irish Literature and Culture. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press
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A Journey into Ireland's Literary Revival. Berkeley, CA: Roaring Forties Press
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Six Modernist Moments in Poetry. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press
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The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Tavistock, England: Northcote House
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Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet. Columbus: Ohio State University Press
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100 Essential Modern Poems by Women. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee
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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2nd ed.
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From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. New York: Oxford University Press
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A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art. Columbia: University of Missouri Press
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Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press,
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Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
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Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
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Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines. New York: Quill
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John Donne and the Protestant Reformation: New Perspectives. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press
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John Donne's Poetry and Early Modern Visual Culture. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press
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More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books
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Religion, Allegory, and Literacy in Early Modern England, 1560-1640: The Control of the Word. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
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Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture. New York: Continuum
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Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory. Waterloo, Ont: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems. New York: Harper
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Tradition and Subversion in Renaissance Literature: Studies in Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Donne. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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Book Lover's Guide to Great Reading: A Guided Tour of Classic and Contemporary Literature. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press
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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry. New York: Cambridge University Press
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The Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
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Collected Critical Writings. New York: Oxford University Press
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A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
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Essays in Biography. Mount Jackson, VA: Axios Press
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Fictions of Autonomy. New York: Oxford University Press
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Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub.
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The Great War and the Language of Modernism. New York: Oxford University Press
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Literary Modernism and Beyond: The Extended Vision and the Realms of the Text. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
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Literary Paths to Religious Understanding: Essays on Dryden, Pope, Keats, George Eliot, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and E. B. White. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan
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Literary Research and British Modernism: Strategies and Sources. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press
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The Making of T. S. Eliot: A Study of the Literary Influences. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
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Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Modernism on Fleet Street. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
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A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art. Columbia: University of Missouri Press
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Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland. New York: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.
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The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology. New York: Oxford University Press
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The Return of Christian Humanism: Chesterton, Eliot, Tolkien, and the Romance of History. Columbia: University of Missouri Press
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T. S. Eliot. New York: Oxford University Press
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T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life. New York: Norton
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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
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Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer
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The English Poems of George Herbert. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Poets' Meeting: George Herbert, R. S. Thomas, and the Argument with God. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
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Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and Individuality from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and Milton. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in 17th-Century England. New York: Oxford University Press
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Christian Tradition in English Literature: Poetry, Plays, and Shorter Prose. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
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The Company of the Creative: The Company of the Creative : A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its Themes. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1999
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Conspiracy and Virtue: Women, Writing, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Oxford University Press
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Destabilizing Milton: Paradise Lost and the Poetics of Incertitude. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan. Rochester, NY: D.S. Brewer
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Gender and the Power of Relationship: "United As One Individual Soul" in Paradise Lost. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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The Great Books: A Journey Through 2,500 Years of the West's Classic Literature. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines. New York: Quill
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Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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John Milton, Radical Politics, and Biblical Republicanism. Newark: University of Delaware Press
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Literature and Dissent in Milton's England. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Milton among the Puritans: The Case for Historical Revisionism. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
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Milton and Gender. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Milton and Monotheism. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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Milton and the Ends of Time. New York: Cambridge University Press
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Milton and the Spiritual Reader: Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England. New York: Routledge
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Milton and the Victorians. London: Cornell University Press
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Milton and Toleration. New York: Oxford University Press
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Milton in the Age of Fish: Essays on Authorship, Text, and Terrorism. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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Milton's Poetry of Independence: Five Studies. Lewisburg NJ: Bucknell University Press
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Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer, and Patriot. New York: Bloomsbury Press
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Milton, Spenser and the Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C. S. Lewis Novels. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
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More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books
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Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West. Washington, DC: National Geographic
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Paradise Lost, 1668-1968: Three Centuries of Commentary. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses
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Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
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Seventeenth-Century Literature and Culture. New York: Continuum
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Single Imperfection: Milton, Marriage and Friendship. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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Theological Milton: Diety, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses
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Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems. New York: Harper
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The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses
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Christina Rossetti's Faithful Imagination: The Devotional Poetry and Prose. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Little Songs: Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet. Columbus: Ohio State University Press
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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
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Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spenser to Milton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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Milton, Spenser and the Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C. S. Lewis Novels. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.
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Tradition and Subversion in Renaissance Literature: Studies in Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Donne. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press
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