ENGL 1170.101: Short Stories of the U.S. South (Fall 2025): Find Background

4 vols. Contains essays on US poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. Figures such as Whitman, Melville, and Morrison are discussed in detail and examined in the context of their times, with an assessment of the writer's current reputation, a bibliography of major works, and a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer.

Representative of the current range of activity in the field of Southern literary studies, the Handbook challenges earlier views of antebellum Southern literature. It examines canonical Southern writers, Native American literature, Latina/o literature, Asian American as well as African American literatures, Caribbean studies, sexuality studies, the relationship of literature to film, and related topics

"Covers British and Irish fiction, American fiction, and World fiction, including major writers and their works; the genres and sub-genres of fiction (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant garde novel); and the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field." [publisher]

Emphasizing criticism as opposed to theory, essays cover a wide array of themes (e.g., African American short story -- Asian American short story -- Chicano-Latino short story -- Ecological short story -- Lesbian and gay short stories -- Native American short story -- American short stories of the Holocaust) and over 100 individual authors. Author essays are arranged alphabetically and include biographies, as well as critical overviews of their works. Indexed.

Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on American literature and the American literary tradition over the past 500 years. Includes perspectives on postmodern theory, debates about the canon, slave narratives, comic books, and other topics.

updated regularly with individually commissioned articles, and in addition includes articles from related stand-alone printed volumes, such as the Oxford Encyclopedias of American Literature, Literary Theory, Latina and Latino Literature, and others.

Arranged in three volumes covering Literary Theory from 1900 to 1966, Literary Theory from 1966 to the present, and Cultural Theory, this encyclopedia provides accessible entries on the important concepts, theorists and trends in post-1900 literary and cultural theory.

Explores both the history of rural America, its current issues and perspectives, and visions for its future.

v. 1. Religion -- v. 2. Geography -- v. 3. History -- v. 4. Myth, manners, and memory -- v. 5 Language -- v. 6 Ethnicity -- v. 7. Foodways . -- v. 8. Environment -- v. 9. Literature -- v. 10. Law & politics -- v. 11. Agriculture & industry -- v. 12. Music -- v. 13. Gender -- v. 14. Folklife. -- v. 15. Urbanization -- v. 16. Sports & recreation -- v. 17. Education -- v. 18. Media -- v. 19. Violence -- v. 20. Social class -- v. 21. Art & architecture -- v. 22. Science & medicine -- v. 23. Folk art / Carol Crown & Cheryl Rivers, vol. eds. -- v. 24. Race. Some volumes available online.

6 vols. Culture broadly defined provides information on persons, events, and trends. Concludes with a collection of around 35 primary documents, section of "Statistics and Lists," and an overall index.

2 volumes; Focuses on significant gender scholarship within commonly recognized areas of social research.

Covers important topics, events, and persons relevant to race and ethicity in society. Also addresses other issues of inequality that intersect with race and ethnicity, including ability status, age, class, gender, and sexual orientation.

"The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in the overlapping areas of gender, feminist, queer, masculinity, and sexuality studies; and acknowledges the growing interdisciplinary impact of these fields. "