Literary companions books

This Companion brings together essays on some fifty-four American poets, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance...  Read More >>

Setting George Bernard Shaw's life and work in the dynamic times in which he lived, this collection of forty-two...  Read More >>

In this bold study of cinematic depictions of violence in the south, Deborah Barker explores the ongoing legacy...  Read More >>

The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal ""No Crisis"" issue considers the state of critical thinking and...  Read More >>

Irony’s Antics marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic and its relationship to irony...  Read More >>

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Offers the first comprehensive study of Grey Owl's cultural and political image. While the denunciations of Grey...  Read More >>

Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming “savages” without land title and without literature. Literary...  Read More >>

In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have...  Read More >>

First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of...  Read More >>

First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable...  Read More >>

Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True...  Read More >>

How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar  Read More >>

First published in 1969. George Eliot is a writer of ordinary human experience, whose work emphasizes commonplace...  Read More >>

First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia...  Read More >>

This title, first published in 1970, consists of essays on the individual tales and novels of George Eliot, with...  Read More >>

First published in 1989. Generations of critics have seen George Eliot as a conservative Victorian high moralist...  Read More >>

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This set reissues 5 books on George Eliot originally published between 1963 and 1989. The volumes examine many of...  Read More >>

An anthology that examines the many achievements of the Nobel Laureate. Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts...  Read More >>

By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen, Stephenie Meyer,...  Read More >>

A selection of the best 100 novels written in the English Language from late 17th century to modern times, by Robert...  Read More >>

Provides a valuable selection of nineteenth-century essays on the art of fiction. These contemporary essays are...  Read More >>