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Publishing History

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Subjects
History and criticism, Canon (literature), History, Theory, Literature, American literature, English literature, Criticism, Congresses, Criticism and interpretation, Literature and society, Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature), Intellectual life, Books and reading, Histoire et critique, Women and literature, Study and teaching, Literatur, LITERARY CRITICISM, American literature, history and criticism
Places
United States, Great Britain, England, English-speaking countries, Germany, France, Europe, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Canada, German-speaking Europe, Latin America, Portugal, Scotland, Brazil, China, Commonwealth countries, Denmark
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
Kermode, Frank, 5 books
Bill Henderson, 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
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
John Rodden, 2 books