English Language & Literature

Contains biographical and critical essays on 1,328 American women writers covering all genres and all periods of American history.

Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music, and religion from a specific period, this work helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture.

Entries constitute an attempt to map the constellation of new media. Collects information about numerous people, places, ideas, and things that connect to new media.

Classic comprehensive English-language reference source for Western philosophy, expanded to cover all philosophy worldwide.

Addresses societal issues of inequality that often intersect with the primary focus on race and ethnicity.

Offers handbook-like entries on cutting-edge topics, such as globalization, consumption, complexity theory, and actor network theory, and it provides state-of-the-art interpretations of long-established theories.

A full text database of 140 international publications devoted to women's and gender issues.

A reference guide to the intellectual traditions of literary theory, containing signed articles on critics and theorists, countries, schools and movements, and historical periods.

History of psychoanalysis in 50 countries shows the relationship between psychoanalysis and other disciplines, with entries discussing writers, philosophers, literary movements and historical events.

Covers 120+ journals and blogs with a leftist viewpoint concerning a variety of political and social issues.

Indexes the popular and scholarly literature addressing issues related to the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender community.

Includes entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, and bibliographies.

Full text of the comprehensive reference resource covering the philosophical canon and philosophy from all continents and all periods.

A refereed, open access encyclopedia with in-depth articles on a random array of several hundred philosophical topics.