Literary companions books

Between the Civil War and World War I, the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history....  Read More >>

What is the African novel, and how should it be taught? The twenty-three essays of this volume address these two...  Read More >>

Between the Civil War and World War I, the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history....  Read More >>

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Harry Potter and the names of fictitious people and places in the Harry Potter novels are trademarks of Warner...  Read More >>

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In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial """"ghosts"""" haunting the mind...  Read More >>

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Captures all of the flavour and richness of Louisiana's heritage, illuminating how the state, despite its differences...  Read More >>

Contains essays that introduce nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. This title covers masterpieces...  Read More >>

Asserting that Russian writers of the nineteenth century were quite consciously creating a new national literary...  Read More >>

Ann Petry (1908-1997) was a prominent writer during a period in which few black writers were published with regularity...  Read More >>

Explores William Shakespeare's depictions of middle age by examining the relationships between middle-aged parents...  Read More >>

Traces a line of southern writers from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, finding that an obsessive...  Read More >>

Revives and critiques four African American and Francophone Caribbean women writers sometimes overlooked in discussions...  Read More >>

Although the definitive history of the Southern literary renaissance has yet to be written, its leading figure,...  Read More >>

The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys Edited by C. Ralph Stephens In 1953 Flannery O'Connor...  Read More >>

Offers a full-length study of the literary phenomenon in which the modern American South, heartland of evangelical...  Read More >>

A revealing look at how the new generation of southern writers links southern cultural heritage and the American...  Read More >>

Reflecting developments in Faulkner criticism, these papers delivered at the 1980 Faulkner and Yoknapatawtha Conference...  Read More >>

In the history of Richard Wright, perhaps more than with other writers, a knowledge of what he actually read, and...  Read More >>

Women should be seen and not heard.” That was a well-known maxim in nineteenth century America. In her new book,...  Read More >>

Drawn from his letters, notebooks, memoirs, and his fiction, this account of Chester Hime's varied, episodic life...  Read More >>

Applying aspects of psychoanalytic theory that pertain to identity formation, specifically René Girard's theory...  Read More >>

From Oscar Wilde to Rudyard Kipling, from Jonathan Swift to WB Yeats and Samuel Beckett: the city of Dublin has...  Read More >>