Literary companions books

The poetry of Yosano Akiko covers all the many and varied aspects of the experience of love - from early romantic...  Read More >>

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The tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States...  Read More >>

Examines the British editions of American fiction, poetry, essays, and autobiographies from writers like Edgar Allan...  Read More >>

Photography at the turn of the twentieth century was not only a product of modernity but also a medium to chronicle...  Read More >>

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Traces the evolution of Mark Twain’s public image between 1891 and his death in 1910. The book features hundreds...  Read More >>

Provides a richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding...  Read More >>

By focusing on kinship constellations instead of ‘family plots’ in seminal literary works of the period, this book...  Read More >>

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two...  Read More >>

My Language Is a Jealous Lover bears witness to the frustrations, soul-searching, pain, and joys of embracing another...  Read More >>

This work of restorative scholarship centers and honors Afro-Latin American heroines present in the work of Cuban,...  Read More >>

British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 examines the relationship between literature and technology in two...  Read More >>

Explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue. Discussing...  Read More >>

This work of restorative scholarship centers and honors Afro-Latin American heroines present in the work of Cuban,...  Read More >>

By focusing on kinship constellations instead of ‘family plots’ in seminal literary works of the period, this book...  Read More >>

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Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr’s character and persona in works of African American literature...  Read More >>

An uplifting and delightfully bookish memoir about an 89-year-old woman who reclaims her life by re-reading each...  Read More >>

Like so many other elements of his work, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s deliberate deployment of provocation was both prescient...  Read More >>

Drawing on C. S. Lewis’s essays, sermons, and fiction, The Lion’s Country offers a comprehensive exploration of...  Read More >>

Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. Today’s war novelists focus on the psychological...  Read More >>

Investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence...  Read More >>

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