Literary companions books

Andrew Marvell. Diplomat. Treaty negotiator. Career politician. Tutor to the children of the rich and famous. Political...  Read More >>

The Metamorphosis is considered to be a Literary Masterpiece because it is an awe- inspiring story about a simple...  Read More >>

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception...  Read More >>

A closer look at three American writers sheds new light on the evolution of socialist thought in the U.S.  Read More >>

While providing an up-to-date context for scholarly debates about Spain’s historical memory, Genre Fusion also expands...  Read More >>

Offers a comparative analysis of fiction from across the pan-Caribbean. Engaging with the historical and political...  Read More >>

American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet  Read More >>

Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G.E. Lessing, and...  Read More >>

Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination  Read More >>

French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic's identity and...  Read More >>

Mariano Siskind’s groundbreaking debut book redefines the scope of world literature, particularly regarding the...  Read More >>

Presents a wide spectrum of compelling arguments about the role and function of mystery in William Faulkner's fiction....  Read More >>

A significant body of scholarship examines the production of children's literature by women and minorities, as well...  Read More >>

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Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film  Read More >>

This essential compendium celebrates an outstanding writer s work and forms a substantial sampler of his writing...  Read More >>

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen’s poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume...  Read More >>

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Explores the “Jewish question” in German literature from Lessing's Nathan der Weise in 1779 to Sessa's Unser Verkehr...  Read More >>

From the novels of Toni Morrison to the music of Beyoncé Knowles, the cultural prevalence of a transnational black...  Read More >>

The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich...  Read More >>

In Indistinguishable from Magic, more than 60 essays by New York Times-bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente...  Read More >>

Through an intellectual and cultural history of the frontier experience, Lehan details the transformations of ideas...  Read More >>