Irish Literature

Includes: African American Culture; English Novelists; Gothic Novelists; Irish Novelists; Latin American Novelists; Native American Novelists; Novelists with Feminist Themes; Picaresque Novelists; Political Novelists; Psychological Novelists; Religious Novelists; Satirical Novelists; Science Fiction Novelists; Spanish Novelists

Volumes include: Avant-Garde Poets; Beat Poets; British Renaissance Poets; Experimental Poets; Feminist Poets; Gay and Lesbian Themes; Greek Poets; Green Movement Poets; Irish Poets; Latin American Poets; Nature Poets; Romantic Poets; Spanish Poets; Surrealist Poets; Visionary Poets; War Poets

Includes book-length analyses of individual authors and individual works, as well as the following genres and themes: African Children's and Youth Literature; American Feminist Playwrights; American Indian Poetry; Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon; British Women Fiction Writers of the 1890s; Children's Literature in Canada; The French Essay; French Structuralism; French Theater Since 1968; The Indian Captivity Narrative, 1550-1900; Jewish-American Fiction, 1917-1987; Late Nineteenth-Century American Diary Literature; Medieval French Romance; Modern and Contemporary Spanish Women Poets; Modern Latin-American Novel; The Movement: British Poets of the 1950s; Native American Literature; The New Novel in France; Science Fiction After 1900; Science Fiction Before 1900; Spanish Chronicles of the Indies; Twentieth-Century French Women Novelists; Women Writers of the English Renaissance.

Volumes include: Classical Literature and Its Times; Italian Literature and Its Times; Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times; Spanish and Portuguese Literatures and Their Times (The Iberian Peninsula); British and Irish Literature and Its Times: The Victorian Era to the Present; British and Irish Literature and Its Times: Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill (Beginnings-1830s); African Literature and Its Times; Latin American Literature and Its Times

Includes original volumes from 1979 and supplements through the present. Scribner Writers Series. Covers writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the fourteenth century to the present day. Includes in-depth critical and biographical analysis.

393 pages. Covers 20 of the most influential works of British literature. Written in a clear, jargon-free style by experts in the field, essays cover individual works, including The Canterbury Tales, Emma, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, The Importance of Being Earnest, Utopia and Gulliver's Travels, exploring the themes, characterization, use of language and other nuances of these enduring pieces of literature.

368 pages. Scribner Writers Series. Covers 19 of the most influential works of British literature offering individual works of British fiction exploring the themes, characterization, use of language and other nuances. This volume includes coverage of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway," J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" and much more.

898 pages. 2 volumes. This succinct, accessible work covers all aspects of Celtic historical life, from prehistory to the present day.

1084 pages. 2 volumes. Includes entries about James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, among others. Entries represent an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach, written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, politics, economics, the Irish and English languages and literatures, the visual arts, and other fields.

3784 pages. 6 volumes. Explores the history of women and feminism throughout literature, from classical antiquity to modern times.

1703 pages. 3 volumes. Spans all facets of the gothic, including visual and performing arts, society and culture, themes and settings and much more. Authors covered include Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde and many others. Complete with primary source documents and critical material to provide contextual perspective, a related chronology of key events, full-text commentaries, lists of further readings and more.

265 pages. Critical Survey of Poetry Series. Profiles major poets throughout history and the world, including analyses of their significant individual poems or collections. Discusses influential green movement poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eamon Grennan, Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, Walt Whitman, and William Butler Yeats.

872 pages. 2 volumes. Entries provide in-depth historical background information on each movement as well as modern critical interpretation of each movement's characteristic styles and themes. Approximately 25 movements are covered, including absurdism, Greek drama, modernism, science fiction/fantasy, surrealism and others.

682 pages. 2 volumes. Presents a myriad of viewpoints, so that modern readers can begin to grasp the complexities of war and its impact. Such stories give voice to the individuals who fight and are fought against, who are injured, who suffer on the battlefield and at home, and who, inevitably, can no longer speak for themselves. Examines dominant and recurring subthemes in the literature of war; including survival, terrorism, leadership, and genocide.

1386 pages. 3 volumes. Examines works that chronicle a life or are compiled from narrated memories. The entries focus on autobiographies, diaries, journals and oral histories from around the world and various time periods to bring us closer to the human experience of history. Some entries look at those who carry on the tradition of oral history, such the West African Griot, Scandinavian Skald, British and Gaelic bards, and Native American storytellers.

1413 pages. 3 volumes. Contains 300 entries that explore literary works that deal with propaganda. Includes a wide variety of genres and has an international scope. Explores the works of authors shaped by a variety of political, social, and economic movements, and places each work in its historical context. Each entry includes an overview of the work, historical context, primary themes and style, and critical discussion.

1422 pages. 3 volumes. Provides historical, cultural and social context of works that focus on armed conflict throughout the world and time. It highlights the realities of war, its impact on society, and how it affects our understanding of it.

1438 pages. 3 volumes. Spanning from the earliest published examples dating to 16th C. Europe, through the Declaration of Independence, to the 2006 Euston Manifesto, this work describes the authors and their causes, as well as the social, political, economic philosophies that are behind them. The context of history will play an important role in describing the circumstances of their writing and how they were received and acted upon at the time of writing and after.

953 pages. 2 volumes. Provides first or unique coverage of both domestic and international works of drama from the first decade of the 21st century, featuring in-depth information on around 175 plays and musicals first produced between the years 2000 and 2009.

1428 pages. 3 volumes. Brings the most important fictional works of this time period into view, discussing plot, characters, critical reception and more. Features broad coverage of multiethnic/multicultural communities and curricula, bringing an insight to readers of contemporary global literature in English translation.