Literary companions books

From her first interview, originally published over three decades ago in her native tongue Bengali in the Calcutta...  Read More >>

An examination of the swamp's role in southern cultural, literary, and ecological history  Read More >>

Was there a sudden break in the world of art, literature, and music when modernism gave way to postmodernism? Philip...  Read More >>

Since the 1960s, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most famous author, has been recognised as a central figure of...  Read More >>

Willa Cather's twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is her most intense fictional engagement with...  Read More >>

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Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it...  Read More >>

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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive...  Read More >>

From her first interview, originally published over three decades ago in her native tongue Bengali in the Calcutta...  Read More >>

From 1840 to 1848, journalist C. M. Haile published a series of mock letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Picayune...  Read More >>

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Traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous...  Read More >>

Describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics...  Read More >>

A companion to the novels of the king of the Beats. It introduces readers to what Matt Theado calls Kerouac's 'unwieldy...  Read More >>

Traces the link between Canadian public policies, the injuries they have inflicted on Indigenous people, and Indigenous...  Read More >>

Analyzing the work of canonical as well as popular writers - including Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, Julia Peterkin,...  Read More >>

An impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced....  Read More >>

The Music Lover's Literary Companion contains much of the best imaginative writing about music and musicians by...  Read More >>

From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary...  Read More >>

In the past, scholars have looked at narratives of the African diaspora only to discover how these memoirs, poems,...  Read More >>

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An examination of how two diverse genres parallel and reflect each other  Read More >>

Published in paperback for the first time, A Business Career is the story of Stella Merwin, a white woman entering...  Read More >>

The critique of white male society that Charles W. Chesnutt launched in A Marrow of Tradition continues in this...  Read More >>