Literary companions books

Focuses on a single central problem: the frequently noted similarity between Ford's protagonists, men whose peculiarly...  Read More >>

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Provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman's entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Tracie Church...  Read More >>

Explores the ways in which William Faulkner's fiction addresses and destabilizes the concept of whiteness in American...  Read More >>

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First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician...  Read More >>

Provides the most comprehensive treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated...  Read More >>

The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the...  Read More >>

John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager,...  Read More >>

At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to...  Read More >>

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Brown (1771-1810) was America's first professional man of letters. His novels are enactments of psychological processes,...  Read More >>

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Southern Literary Study: Problems and Possibilities  Read More >>

Knave, Fool, and Genius: The Confidence Man as He Appears in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction  Read More >>

Using the selected works of eight twentieth-century writers, Wilson demonstrates how literature forms the essential...  Read More >>

This study rejects the notion that Arthurian society actually presented a would-be ideal. In its place, the author...  Read More >>

Books Speaking to Books: A Contextual Approach to American Fiction  Read More >>

Offers a study of the work of contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of...  Read More >>

Susanna Egan's survey of texts from early Christendom to the nineteenth century provides an understanding of the...  Read More >>

Reveals Richard Wright's poetic vision toward the human world. These essays open up a new territory in Wright studies...  Read More >>

Critics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac McCarthy to the...  Read More >>

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This book proposes that in a number of French Renaissance texts, produced in varying contexts and genres, we observe...  Read More >>