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Publishing History

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Subjects

History and criticism, History, Canon (literature), Theory, Literature, American literature, Criticism, English literature, Congresses, Criticism and interpretation, Literature and society, Intellectual life, Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature), Books and reading, Histoire et critique, Study and teaching, Women and literature, Literatur, American literature, history and criticism, Appreciation

Places

United States, Great Britain, England, English-speaking countries, Germany, France, Europe, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Canada, German-speaking Europe, Japan, Latin America, Portugal, Scotland, Brazil, China, Commonwealth countries

People

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), James Joyce (1882-1941), Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), John Milton (1608-1674), Sylvia Plath, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Ben Jonson (1573?-1637), Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Times

20th century, 19th century, 18th century, 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, 16th century, 21st century, Middle English, 1100-1500, To 1500, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
Harold Bloom, 7 books
Bill Henderson, 6 books
Kermode, Frank, 5 books
Karen L. Kilcup, 4 books
Sava Sivriev, 4 books
Italo Calvino, 4 books
Isobel Armstrong, 4 books
Claudia Stockinger, 3 books
Alan Sinfield, 3 books
Flávio R. Kothe, 3 books
David Damrosch, 3 books
Mihály Szegedy-Maszák, 3 books
Nikmah A. Sunardjo, 3 books
Matthias Beilein, 3 books
Simone Winko, 3 books
Robert Alter, 3 books
Walter W. Skeat, 2 books
W. R. Owens, 2 books
Kathryne V. Lindberg, 2 books
Glenn W. Most, 2 books
Nick Rennison, 2 books
Erik Bjerck Hagen, 2 books
Benjamin Franklin V, 2 books
David Madden, 2 books
Joseph G. Kronick, 2 books