"Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism"

by Martin Coyle

If you are a graduate student in literature or library science, don't miss this beauty. The scholarship is incredible; the amount of information is amazing.
Ninety essays cover subjects as diverse as feminist theatre, postmodernism, medieval literature, romantic poetry, Marxist criticism, censorship, realism and the novel, contemporary American poetry, New Historicism, the origins of the modern stage, the renaissance, women and the poetic tradition, the printed book, and Shakespeare and eighteenth-century fiction.

Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance for further reading.