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The History of Italian Literature
A Short History of Italian Literature
  by Robert A. Hall, Jr.

High Points in the History of Italian Literature
  by Domenico Vittorini

Dictionary of Italian Literature
  edited by Peter Bondanella, Julia Conaway Bondanella, & Jody Robin Shiffman


Hispanic American Literature
Hispanic-American Writers
 edited by Harold Bloom

U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers
 edited by Harold Augenbraum & Margarite Fernández Olmos

European Perspectives on Hispanic Literature of the United States
 edited by Genvieve Fabre


J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth
 edited by Verlyn Flieger & Carl E. Hostetter

J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth
  edited by George Clark & Daniel Timmons

A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie
 by Verlyn Flieger

Shadows of Imagination: The Fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams
 edited by Mark R. Hillegas


Portrayals of African-Americans in Huckleberry Finn
Satire Or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn
 by Thadious M. Davis, James S. Leonard & Thomas A. Tenney

Black, White, and Huckleberry Finn: Re-Imagining the American Dream
 by Harry Mensh

The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
 by Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua


The Portrayal of Women in African Literature
Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature
 by Janice Lee Liddell & Yakini Belinda Kemp

Moorings & Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature
 by Karla F. C. Holloway

Challenging Hierarchies: Issues and Themes in Colonial
and Postcolonial African Literature

 by Leonard A. Podis & Yakubu Saaka


The Life and Work of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison: A Critical Companion
 by Missy Dehn Kubitschek

Toni Morrison: Solo Flight Through Literature into History
 by Trudier Harris, in World Literature Today

The Novels of Toni Morrison: The Search for Self and Place within the Community
 by Patrick Bjork Bryce


The Influence of Arthurian Romance
Camelot in the Nineteenth Century: Arthurian Characters in the Poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, and Swinburne
 by Laura Cooner Lambdin & Robert Thomas Lambdin

The Company of Camelot: Arthurian Characters in Romance and Fantasy
 by Charlotte Spivack & Roberta Lynne Staples

The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film: From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings
 by Rebecca A. Umland & Samuel J. Umland


Vampires in Literature
Vampire Gothic
 by Teresa A. Goddu, in American Literary History

The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature
 by James B. Twitchell

The Vampyre, and Other Tales of the Macabre
 by Chris Baldick & Robert Morrison


Literature of the Holocaust
Writing and the Holocaust
 by Berel Lang

The Holocaust According to Its Anthologists
 by David G. Roskies, in Prooftexts

Anthology of Holocaust Literature
 by Jacob Glatstein, Israel Knox & Samuel Margoshes

Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction
 by Sara R. Horowitz


Kurt Vonnegut
The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays
 by Marc Leeds & Peter J. Reed

The World of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
 by Stanley Schatt, in Critique

The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
 by Peter J. Reed

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