Literary companions books

All roads lead to Rome, the eternal city, the centre of Christendom, the lodestone of the pilgrim and the artist,...  Read More >>

Including contributions from such celebrated French writers as...  Read More >>

Using an interdisciplinary approach to examine economic, sociological, and political factors in william Faulkner's...  Read More >>

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An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece.  Read More >>

A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern,...  Read More >>

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the independent...  Read More >>

American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly...  Read More >>

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This original research monograph discusses key English novelists of the 19th and 20th centuries and their efforts...  Read More >>

Although he did not start publishing until middle age, Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) had over sixty published books...  Read More >>

While classifying the pregnant condition as a state of captivity might elicit negative connotations, Marotte underscores...  Read More >>

Maps changing landscapes of criminal flight in American texts by focusing on the twenty years between 1932 and 1952,...  Read More >>

Professor Douglas Gifford, Emeritus Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, explores James...  Read More >>

'Thrawn Janet' (1881) and 'Markheim' (1885) have the diabolical as their theme, and their sinister settings and...  Read More >>

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Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright began their careers as marginals within marginalized groups, and their desire...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume are indicative of the scope of international scholarship concerning the works of William...  Read More >>

A paradigm for perceiving the Vietnam War and the literature it produced  Read More >>

In this volume, essayists ask how overlooked literature in the 1950s addressed or anticipated the struggles of disenfranchised...  Read More >>

Schweninger considers a range of genres (memoirs, novels, stories, essays) by Native writers. Contextualizing these...  Read More >>

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The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural...  Read More >>

The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, TVshows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life...  Read More >>