Books like A handbook to literature by C. Hugh Holman

An alphabetical reference work that defines key terms and concepts across linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, and digital resources for literary studies.

The Book of Household Management is a Victorian manual offering recipes, menu suggestions, and practical advice on cooking, housekeeping, servant supervision, and childrearing.

"The articles with which David Lodge entertained and enlightened readers of the Independent on Sunday and The Washington Post are now revised, expanded and collected together in book form. The art of fiction is considered under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, Magical Realism and Symbolism, and each topic is illustrated by a passage or two taken from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, David Lodge makes accessible to the general reader the richness and variety of British and American fiction. Technical terms, such as Interior Monologue, Metafiction, Intertextuality and the Unreliable Narrator, are lucidly explained and their application demonstrated. Bringing to criticism the verve and humour of his own novels, David Lodge has provided essential reading for students of literature, aspirant writers, and anyone who wishes to understand how literature works."--Publisher's website.

A concise alphabetical reference of literary terms, presented through short essays with definitions and illustrative examples.

A comprehensive, authoritative reference guide to English literary culture, updated in 1985 under Margaret Drabble’s editorship and expanded with nearly sixty new entries on contemporary novelists, poets, and dramatists.