Literary companions books

This interdisciplinary study proposes a comprehensive reevaluation of the links between Mill’s experience and his...  Read More >>

Ciuba examines how Percy’s apocalyptic vision inspires the structure, themes, and strategies of his fiction. This...  Read More >>

Offers recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, it...  Read More >>

John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life...  Read More >>

Walker Percy, the reclusive southern author famous for his 1961 novel """"The Moviegoer"""", lived most of his adult...  Read More >>

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Identifies and analyses previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned “linkages and keystones” found in two highly...  Read More >>

Identifies and analyses previously unnoticed or only briefly mentioned “linkages and keystones” found in two highly...  Read More >>

For students of creative writing, Myth and Creative Writing provides an exploration of myth - both ancient and modern...  Read More >>

This is the first complete edition of an anonymous late medieval Catalan translation of Italian writer Bernardo...  Read More >>

Ames argues that the private party has become the festival of modern culture and has served as a shaping force in...  Read More >>

Alkon examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth,...  Read More >>

Cogan identifies an ideal of femininity she calls the “Real Woman,” who appeared in the popular reading of middle-class...  Read More >>

Byerman discusses how black writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines have moved away from...  Read More >>

Examining both Cane and the body of writings Toomer produced after it, Byrd finds a distinct thematic unity in the...  Read More >>

Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe’s fiction that shows Defoe’s relevance to issues now central to criticism...  Read More >>

Fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres,...  Read More >>

Wilson explores how these white collar representations became part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms...  Read More >>

This study of nonfiction written by four of nineteenth-century America's first professional women writers investigates...  Read More >>

A study of how the works of these writers offer the empowerment of female authorship and acknowledge the woman's...  Read More >>

Collects Noel Polk's essays from the late-1970s to 2005. Featuring an introduction that places Faulkner and Welty...  Read More >>

Evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary South very well may be women writers  Read More >>

This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty,...  Read More >>

Larry Brown is noted for his subjects - rural life, poverty, war, and the working class - and his spare, gritty...  Read More >>

Reflecting diverse methodologies and theoretical approaches, the essays in this volume seek to explicate depictions...  Read More >>