Literary companions books

Essays that tackle the complex sexual tensions and trappings in the Nobel Laureate's work  Read More >>

Offers the first comprehensive study of John Edgar Wideman and his novels, and shows him to be a writer emerging...  Read More >>

Explores the role that war played in the life and work of a writer whose career seems forever poised against a backdrop...  Read More >>

Analyzing the historical contexts in which female Gothic novels and slave narratives were composed, Kari J. Winter...  Read More >>

Using the works and careers of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, David Graham Phillips, and Lincoln Steffens as case...  Read More >>

The first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Montagu...  Read More >>

Discusses a critical element in the early poetry of Seamus Heaney: the question of poetic duty and responsibility,...  Read More >>

Richard Wright died 50 years ago and in that time there has been little research on the role of women in his powerful...  Read More >>

A guide to books from and about British Columbia. It identifies 150 essential authors, such as Alice Munro, Earle...  Read More >>

"These essays trace the myth of the wild man from the Middle Ages to its disintegration into symbol in the periods...  Read More >>

Lemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of the debate over whether or not Pocahontas saved Captain...  Read More >>

Written during an important transition in the history of American children’s literature, these three novels are...  Read More >>

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Heliand, the Old Saxon poem based on the life of Christ in the Gospels, has become more available to students of...  Read More >>

Ths is the third and final volume of an ambitious research initiative begun in 1999 concerned with the image of...  Read More >>

Examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women...  Read More >>

‘Haunting, heartfelt and beautiful’ CHRIS CLEAVE  Read More >>

The first collection of interviews with the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Kindred, Parable of the Sower,...  Read More >>

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First published in 1944, this is a detailed survey of twenty-four distinguished periodicals published in antebellum...  Read More >>

In the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure...  Read More >>

Film noir, which flourished in 1940s and 50s, reflected the struggles and sentiments of postwar America. Dennis...  Read More >>

Tells a tale of love, intrigue, and religious redemption. Drawn from the author's notes to her memoir, this novel...  Read More >>

A never before published H.D. work, White Rose and the Red is the fictional biography of Elizabeth Siddall, wife...  Read More >>

The origins of the novel can be traced to this picaresque tale of an errant knight and his comical sidekick. The...  Read More >>