Handbooks and Critical Companions to Authors and Topics
Hanbooks and Introductions to authors, literary movements, and background.
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Cambridge Companions OnlineOffers subject or theme based collections of companion e-books within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment. Areas covered include literature, classics, philosophy, religion, culture and music.
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Cambridge Introductions to LiteratureScholarly introductions to authors and literary topics. To see the list of online introductions, either click on the ebook icon next to the title in this link or remove the "book" filter in Tripod.
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Cambridge Literature in Context SeriesEach of these volumes focuses on an individual writer, offering lively, accessible and relatively short essays, by leading scholars, on the many contexts - literary, political, intellectual, social and cultural - that have a bearing on his or her work.
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Blackwell Companions to Literature and CultureScholarly companions to authors and literary topics. To see the list of online introductions, either click on the ebook icon next to the title in this link or remove the "book" filter in Tripod.
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Oxford Companions SeriesScholarly companions to authors and literary or cultural topics. To see the list of online introductions, either click on the ebook icon next to the title in this link or remove the "book" filter in Tripod. See also: the Oxford Reader's Companions
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Edinburgh Companion SeriesScholarly companions to authors and literary topics. To see the list of online companions, either click on the ebook icon next to the title in this link or remove the "book" filter in Tripod. The Edinburgh Companions have a strength in Scottish authors and literary topics, but the series also has works on Shakespeare, Woolf, and other authors/topics outside Scottish literature.
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Edinburgh Critical Guides to LiteratureGuides to literary criticism organized by geography, period, or topic.
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Routledge Companions SeriesScholarly companions to authors and literary topics. To see the list of online introductions, either click on the ebook icon next to the title in this link or remove the "book" filter in Tripod.
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Routledge Sourcebooks and Guides to LiteratureContext, sources, critical history, and other information about key authors and works of literature. To see the list of online guides, either click on the ebook icon next to the title in this link or remove the "book" filter in Tripod.
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Palgrave Advances SeriesScholarly companions to authors and literary topics. To see the list of online introductions, either click on the ebook icon next to the title in this link or remove the "book" filter in Tripod.
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Palgrave Literary DictionariesTitles include a concise reference guide, consisting mainly of entries presented under headwords arranged in alphabetical order; more substantial entries include suggestions for further reading [adapted from the Series Editors' Foreword].
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Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism (Palgrave)A good series for critical guides to classic and contemporary—especially British or British-Commonwealth—literature.
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Columbia Critical GuidesIntroductions to key literary works and authors, including overviews of popular and critical reception.
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Continuum Reader's GuidesStrong emphases on theoretical, philosophical, and contemporary literature, especially European or world literature. Most titles are in electronic format.
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Continuum Renaissance DramaCritical guides to key works of British Renaissance drama.
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Ashgate Research CompanionsCritical companions to literature, culture, history, and politics.
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Understanding Contemporary American LiteratureUniversity of South Carolina Press guides to contemporary American authors.
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Understanding Contemporary British LiteratureUniversity of South Carolina Press guides to contemporary British authors.