"Critical Companion to Jane Austen examines the author's life and works, providing critical analyses of her writing and information on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences. This accessible volume also provides crucial historical and thematic information, in addition to illustrations, bibliographies, and cross-references."--Jacket.

Examines the Bible as a work of literature, focusing on its language and verbal structures and on the imaginative quality of its thought.

An A to Z presentation of English authors from the eighteenth century, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.

Some of the most important authors in British poetry left their mark onliterature before 1600, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser,and, of course, William Shakespeare. The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600is an encyclopedic guide to British poetry from the beginnings to theyear 1600, featuring approximately 600 entries ranging in length from300 to 2,500 words.

From the Publisher: Throughout history, tyrants, totalitarian states, church institutions, and democratic governments alike have banned books that challenged their assumptions or questioned their activities. Political censorship was even applied to ancient Greek dramas during the Nazi occupation in 1942. Political suppression also occurs in the name of "security" and the safeguarding of official secrets, and is often used as a weapon in larger cultural...

Alphabetically arranged entries offer cross-referenced information on British writers from the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries, including biographical information, overviews of their works, and critical analyses of some.