Literary companions books

Examines a little-known aspect of Percy Shelley's poetry, offering a history of synesthesia, focusing primarily...  Read More >>

Contains nearly 30 prefaces from the works of French poets and dramatists published from 1525 to 1611. Bernard Weinberg's...  Read More >>

This bibliography lists the books, paintings, and portraits of the mystic Irish poet George William Russell, best...  Read More >>

Examines the aesthetic triumphs and failures of Lawrence's major works through a literary device that the author...  Read More >>

This encyclopaedia serves as a guide to the fifty-six stories and four novels that comprise the Sherlock Holmes...  Read More >>

In Fair Rosamond Virgil B. Heltzel traces the character of Rosamond Clifford, known as """"Fair Rosamond"""" - which...  Read More >>

This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West’s life and their relationship...  Read More >>

Presents both a literary history and a survey of the West African novel. Gleason explores seventeen novels in French...  Read More >>

Chronicles British novelist William Thackeray's ambivalent attitudes toward society and traces his conduct during...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1951, this book makes the original argument that the renowned English critic Matthew Arnold...  Read More >>

Offers a study of the sources of the Tristan romance, tracing them through the various versions of the legend. Sigmund...  Read More >>

Examines the significance of Scandinavian history, literature, and languages for the composition of James Joyce's...  Read More >>

Wallace Bacon's critical edition brings Warner's important novel - with its young protagonists being dragged through...  Read More >>

In this first full-length study of Yeats's interest in Shakespeare, Rupin Desai explores how Shakespearean works...  Read More >>

Were Ben Jonson's comedies sentimental or were they didactic and moralistic? Alan Dessen's groundbreaking text remains...  Read More >>

Presents the first critical, annotated translation in English of the collected work of poet Aimeric de Peguilhan....  Read More >>

Late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century French writer Romain Rolland remains best known for his epic coming-of-age...  Read More >>

Provides one the earliest attempts to write a theoretical method for evidence within plays to help determine authorship...  Read More >>

Probes the relationship between the aesthetic structures of modernism and its political and philosophical shape....  Read More >>

Explores the popularity of magazines in the nineteenth century and the ways that much of the published fiction of...  Read More >>

Provides a reading of Johnson that emphasizes his moral discourse. After its publication, Alkon's book became the...  Read More >>

Knut Hamsen remains one of the most important and influential novelists of his time. This volume offers a collection...  Read More >>

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Gossip - long derided and dismissed by writers and intellectuals - is far from frivolous. In Idle Talk, Deadly Talk,...  Read More >>