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This volume explores Emerson's vast literary and social impact during his lifetime as well as his legacy beyond “Self-Reliance.” Emerson's other writings are discussed in relation to famous literary works and in relation to the themes of nationhood, oratory, social reform, spiritual education, and the environment.

This volume provides readers with a better understanding of Whitman the person, the thinker, and the artist.

Offers 150 reviews of significant fiction and nonfiction published each year. Provides coverage for works that are likely to be of particular interest to the general reader, that reflect publishing trends, and that will stand the test of time.

This volume addresses the theme of inequality and includes critical readings in classic and contemporary works.

Contains over 650 new and updated essays—over 550 discuss individual dramatists and nearly 100 cover important overview topics that are critical to the study of drama as a whole.

Why has literature, almost since the very beginning (think of Homer's Odyssey, for instance), been so often and so strongly preoccupied with the quest to survive? How and why is this matter deeply rooted in human psychology? These are just a few of the general questions that can be asked about survival as a general theme in literature.

Designed to provide students and researchers with fresh insight into the various critical approaches to literary criticism.

In-depth critical discussions on a variety of literary of works engaging with history and that pair well with historical readings.

Designed to provide students and researchers with fresh insight into the various critical approaches to literary criticism.

Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.

Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.

Colonial Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference contains essays that were carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Colonial Short Story Writers discuss such influential authors as Chinua Achebee, Bessie Head, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Salman Rushdie.

World Supernatural Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Hans Christian Andersen, Gabriel García Márquez, Franz Kafka, and Zhang Jie.

Horror and Supernatural Novelists is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Ray Bradbury, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Stephen King, and Anne Rice.

War Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in War Short Story Writers discuss such influential authors as Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Tim O'Brien and Christa Wolf.

Science Fiction Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Science Fiction Short Story Writeres discuss such influential authors as Robert Heinlen, Orson Scott Card, H. G. Wells, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Local Color Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Local Color Short Story Writers discuss such influential authors as Bret Harte, Sarah Orne Jewett, Garrison Keillor and Colm Tóibín.

Gothic Short Fiction is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Gothic Short Fiction discuss such influential authors as Honoré de Balzac, Walter de la Mare, Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe.

Asian Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Asian Short Story Writers discuss such influential authors as Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Maxine Hong Kingston, Haruki Murakami, and Paul Yoon.

Designed to provide students and researchers with fresh insight into the various critical approaches to literary criticism.

Writers of Black Humor Short Stories is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Thomas Pynchon, Ben Okri, Bruce Jay Friedman, and Margaret Atwood.

Writers of Adventure Short Stories is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Joseph Conrad, Bret Harte, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Saul Bellow.

World Writers of Humorous Short Stories is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Jorge Luis Borges, Isaac Babel, Salman Rushdie, and Voltaire.

North American Short Story Writers on Women's Issues is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Edwidge Danticat, Grace Paley, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gertrude Stein.

Topical Essays on the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such topics as fables, science fiction, magical realism, and minimalism.

Magical Realism Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Isabel Allende, Gabriel García Márquez, Joy Harjo, and Italo Calvino.

History of the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume include Short Fiction in Antiquity, The Twenty-first Century, Time Line, and Chronological List of Writers.

Essays on Cultural Traditions in the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume include such topics as African Short Fiction, German Short Fiction, Latino Short Fiction, and Native American Short Fiction.

Canadian Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Mavis Gallant, and W. P. Kinsella.

American Writers of Humorous Short Stories is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as O. Henry, James Thurber, Woody Allen, and Garrison Keillor.

British and Irish Short Story Writers on Women's Issues is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as A. S. Byatt, Anne Enright, Jean Rhys, and Fay Weldon.

British and Irish Writers of Humorous Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Graham Greene, Frank O'Connor, Saki, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

Designed to provide students and researchers with fresh insight into the various critical approaches to literary criticism.

Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.

A unique combination of critical analysis of the key works in this popular genre.

Offers nearly 150 reviews of significant fiction and nonfiction published in 2016.

Minimalist Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, David Leavitt, and Tobias Wolf.

A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.

Humanist Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Italo Calvino, Miguel de Cervantes, E. M. Forster, and Anne Tyler.

Existentialist Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Woody Allen, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, and Flannery O'Connor.

Short Story Writers on Gay and Lesbian Issues is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as E. M. Forster, Gertrude Stein, Tennessee Williams, and Virginia Woolf.

Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.

An indispensible guide to over 400 authors, with in-depth analyses of their significant works of fiction, drama, nonfiction, young adult literature, and poetry.

Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the theme and the critical discussions surrounding it.

This brand-new edition analyzes the use of place in over 1,300 literary works.

Detective and Mystery Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference contains essays that were carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Detective and Mystery Short Story Writers discuss such influential authors as Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Walter Mosley and Ellery Queen.

British Supernatural Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Fowles, and Muriel Spark.

American Supernatural Short Story Writers is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such influential writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allen Poe.

Harlem Renaissance is a single-volume reference that contains biographical essays on the authors followed by two in-depth discussions of specific works. Essays on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Juneteenth are followed by Nella Larsen's Passing and Quicksand.

This new edition examines more than 29,000 major characters from 3,500 important works of literature. New to this edition are 245 characters published in popular works of fiction from 2000 to 2013.