Subject Guide: Literature

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Illustrated introductory guide to key British, American and Australian works that shows developments in children's literature over time and across genres.

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

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

Focuses on Oceania's impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children.

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

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

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