Literary companions books

Explores Dostoevsky's literary career as an extended meditation on the question of """"what is a human being?""""...  Read More >>

For a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood...  Read More >>

First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sergio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of...  Read More >>

Hope Isn’t Stupid is the first study to interrogate the neglected connections between affect and the practice of...  Read More >>

Examines neoliberal militarism, a term that signifies the complex ways in which neoliberalism and militarism interanimate...  Read More >>

Vladimir E. Alexandrov advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific...  Read More >>

Taking a postnational approach, contributors examine works by José Martí, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Junot Díaz, Mario Vargas...  Read More >>

Examines the development of Latin American science fiction from the mid-nineteenth century until the early days...  Read More >>

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From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets...  Read More >>

Explores Dostoevsky's literary career as an extended meditation on the question of """"what is a human being?""""...  Read More >>

First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sergio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of...  Read More >>

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Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home...  Read More >>

Emerson and the History of Rhetoric re-envisions Emerson's work through his significant engagement with rhetorical...  Read More >>

What unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Who are Americans, and can they strike a balance between an...  Read More >>

Stunning three-volume slipcased set containing the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works...  Read More >>

Charles Sweeny was the heir to a fortune, but instead of a life of comfort, he became a warrior for causes he believed...  Read More >>

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The zombie, popular culture's undead darling, shows no signs of stopping. But as it deliberately conquers pop culture,...  Read More >>

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In this wide-ranging study, Ronda examines the mid-nineteenth-century flowering of American transcendentalism and...  Read More >>

Through extended readings of the works of P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, and...  Read More >>

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