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Use as a topical subdivision under names of individual persons, families, corporate bodies, and countries, cities etc., Christian denominations and uniform titles of sacred works, and under names of deities, mythological or legendary figures, and fictitious characters, for works on those persons, organizations, and places in literature.

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• Abraham (Biblical patriarch) -- In literature
• Adelaide (S.A.) -- In literature
• Aeneas (Legendary character) -- In literature
• Afghanistan -- In literature
• Africa -- In literature
• Africa, North -- In literature
• Alberta -- In literature
• America -- In literature
• Antonius, Marcus, 83 B.C.?-30 B.C. -- In literature
• Asia -- In literature
• Australia -- In literature
• Bible -- In literature
• Boston (Mass.) -- In literature
• Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 -- In literature
• Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917 -- In literature
• Canada -- In literature
• Carleton, Mary, 1642?-1673 -- In literature
• Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 -- In literature
• Catholic Church -- In literature
• Charleston (S.C.) -- In literature
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C. -- In literature
• Clifford, Rosamond, -1176? -- In literature
• Damayantī (Hindu mythological character) -- In literature
• Demeter (Greek deity) -- In literature
• Egypt -- In literature
• England -- In literature
• Europe -- In literature
• France -- In literature
• Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- In literature
• Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene -- In literature
• Georgia -- In literature
• Great Britain -- In literature
• Greece -- In literature
• Hercules (Roman mythological character) -- In literature
• Hermes (Greek deity) -- In literature
• Highlands (Scotland) -- In literature
• Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- In literature
• Illinois -- In literature
• India -- In literature
• Ireland -- In literature
• Isaac (Biblical patriarch) -- In literature
• Italy -- In literature
• Japan -- In literature
• Jason (Mythological character) -- In literature
• Jesus Christ -- In literature
• Judith (Biblical figure) -- In literature
• Kansas -- In literature
• Kentucky -- In literature
• Lear, King of England (Legendary character) -- In literature
• Lesbos (Greece : Municipality) -- In literature
• London (England) -- In literature
• Maryland -- In literature
• Michigan -- In literature
• Milan (Italy) -- In literature
• Mississippi River -- In literature
• Moses (Biblical leader) -- In literature
• Nala (Hindu mythological character) -- In literature
• New England -- In literature
• New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
• New York (State) -- In literature
• Noah (Biblical figure) -- In literature
• Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- In literature
• Orient -- In literature
• Orpheus (Greek mythological character) -- In literature
• Ossian, active 3rd century -- In literature
• Pacific Area -- In literature
• Palestine -- In literature
• Penelope (Greek mythological character) -- In literature
• Persephone (Greek deity) -- In literature
• Philoctetes (Mythological character) -- In literature
• Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto -- In literature
• Portugal -- In literature
• Prometheus (Greek deity) -- In literature
• Rāma (Hindu deity) -- In literature
• Rome -- In literature
• Sītā (Hindu deity) -- In literature
• Scotland -- In literature
• Scottish Borders (Scotland) -- In literature
• South Africa -- In literature
• South Dakota -- In literature
• Southern States -- In literature
• Southwest, New -- In literature
• Southwestern States -- In literature
• Tōkaidō (Japan) -- In literature
• Thetis (Mythological character) -- In literature
• Timon, of Athens, active 5th century B.C. -- In literature
• Troilus (Legendary character) -- In literature
• Troy (Extinct city) -- In literature
• United States -- In literature
• Verona (Italy) -- In literature
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 -- In literature
• Wessex (England) -- In literature
• West (U.S.) -- In literature

• In fiction, drama, poetry, etc.

• The Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Abraham, Moses, and Piers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Ruth M. Ames (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Adelaide: A Literary City (c2013), ed. by Philip Butterss (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google
• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)
• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google)

• Imagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), by Alla Ivanchikova (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2017), ed. by George Melnyk and Donna Coates (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy: Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America (UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures #121; c1998), by Jeffrey L. Sammons
  • multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
• The Dispute of the New World: The History of a Polemic, 1750-1900 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1973), by Antonello Gerbi, trans. by Jeremy Moyle (page images at Pitt)
• An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from Utopia to The Tempest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Jeffrey Knapp (HTML at UC Press)

• The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Development (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1968), by Julian Markels (PDF at Ohio State)

• American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning Toward the Transpacific (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, c2015), ed. by Yuan Shu and Donald E. Pease (PDF and Epub at Dartmouth)
• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom (electronic edition), by Morgan Gibson (HTML at Light and Dust)

• Black Words White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988 (15th anniversity edition; Canberra: ANU E Press, c2004), by Adam Shoemaker (PDF and HTML with commentary at ANU Press)

• The Historical Jesus and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1920 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, c2010), by Jennifer Stevens (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms (originally published 1972; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Coburn Freer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Ann W. Astell (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Debora K. Shuger (HTML at UC Press)
• The Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Abraham, Moses, and Piers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Ruth M. Ames (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Literary Boston of To-Day (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., 1903), by Helen M. Winslow
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning, by Algernon Charles Swinburne (HTML at Toronto)

• The Mary Carleton Narratives, 1663-1673: A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914), ed. by Ernest Bernbaum (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Creating the Empress: Politics and Poetry in the Age of Catherine II (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011), by V. I︠U︡. Proskurina (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Masked Atheism: Catholicism and the Secular Victorian Home (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Maria LaMonaca (PDF at Ohio State)
• Landscapes of Encounter: The Portrayal of Catholicism in the Novels of Brian Moore (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2002), by Liam Gearon (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Thomas F. Haddox (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)

• DuBose Heyward's Use of Folklore in His Negro Fiction (Citadal Monograph Series #2; Charleston, SC: The Citadel, 1961), by Frank Durham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Development (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1968), by Julian Markels (PDF at Ohio State)

• Fair Rosamond: A Study of the Development of a Literary Theme (Northwestern University studies in the humanities #16; Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1947), by Virgil B. Heltzel (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Hindu Literature: Comprising The Book of Good Counsels; Nala and Damayanti; The Ramayana; and Sakoontala; With Critical and Biographical Sketches (revised eition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1900), ed. by Epiphanius Wilson, trans. by Edwin Arnold, Ralph T. H. Griffith, and Monier Monier-Williams, contrib. by Vālmīki, Kālidāsa, and Toru Dutt (Gutenberg text)

• The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Ann Suter (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pillar of the World: Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare's Development (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1968), by Julian Markels (PDF at Ohio State)

• Galileo Galilei Nella Poesia Del Suo Secolo: Raccolta di Poesie Edite e Inedite Scritte da' Contemporanei in Lode di Galileo, Pubblicate in Occasione Del 3. Centenario delle Sue Scoperte Celesti (in Italian; Milan et al.: R. Sandron, 1910), by Nunzio Vaccalluzzo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Places That the Map Can't Contain: Poetics in the Anthropocene (Göttingen: V&R Unipress, c2023), ed. by Julia Fiedorczuk and Paweł Piszczatowski (PDF files with commentary at V&R eLibrary)

• The Herculean Hero in Marlowe, Chapman, Shakespeare and Dryden (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Chatto and Windus, 1962), by Eugene M. Waith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Ears of Hermes: Communication, Images, and Identity in the Classical World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011), by Maurizio Bettini, trans. by William Michael Short (PDF at Ohio State)

• Scotland, Britain, Empire: Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Kenneth McNeil (PDF at Ohio State)

• Washington Irving: An American Study, 1802-1832 (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by William L. Hedges (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1999), by Balachandra Rajan (page images at HathiTrust)

• George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1994), by Elizabeth Grubgeld (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
• The Irish Ulysses (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Maria Tymoczko (HTML at UC Press)
• The Study of Celtic Literature, by Matthew Arnold
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Literary Ideals in Ireland (London: T. Fisher Unwin; Dublin: Daily Express office, 1899), contrib. by John Eglinton, W. B. Yeats, George William Russell, and William Larminie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Changing Ireland: Literary Backgrounds of the Irish Free State, 1889-1922 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by Norreys Jephson O'Conor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish, by Lady Gregory, contrib. by Douglas Hyde (Gutenberg text)

• A Study of the Noah and Isaac Miracle Plays, With Reference to Their Sources and Anachronisms (University of Illinois thesis, 1903), by Stella Webster Morgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Chaucer's Italian Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Warren Ginsberg (page images at HathiTrust)

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