Literary companions books

Exploring the cultural dimensions of the US contact with Haiti through a range of examples from the occupation and...  Read More >>

From psychological suspense and historical fiction to """"gentle reads"""" and romance, this guide explores the...  Read More >>

These interviews and profiles tell the story of one woman's discovery of her coal-mining hometown as a potential...  Read More >>

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In this work, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the """"logic of sympathy"""" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa...  Read More >>

Throw caution to the wind and enter a world where the Librarian is an orangutan, luggage has legs, and where Death...  Read More >>

The seven novels of North Carolina writer Bernice Kelly Harris were published to international acclaim in the 1940s,...  Read More >>

This study examines how cultural works contribute to social debates, how a particular representational form emerges...  Read More >>

Critics have called Harry Crews a “mad genius” and “Flannery O'Connor on steroids.” Much of the previous critical...  Read More >>

Presents a compilation of selected stories, essays, and reminiscences that Dorothy West wrote for the Vineyard Gazette...  Read More >>

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The increased attention to women's literature of the early modern period has reinvigorated literary study, not by...  Read More >>

This sweeping study of the literary South's new direction focuses on nine well established writers who, by breaking...  Read More >>

Good, motivated, well-read students can have trouble reading To the Lighthouse, admit the editors of this volume;...  Read More >>

An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers...  Read More >>

Leslie Marmon Silko is one of America's best known Native authors. She grants interviews rarely, but the sixteen...  Read More >>

This anthology examines Shakespeare's ""Love's Labour's Lost"" from a variety of perspectives and through a wide...  Read More >>

Lord Peter Wimsey-amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual-is known to legions...  Read More >>

Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and...  Read More >>

This study explores the lives of nine Northern American female writers of the Civil War period. It examines how,...  Read More >>

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Texas has a whole remuda of writers, some native-born and Texas-raised and some immigrants to the state. They range...  Read More >>

Times were tough in the thirties, and tough guys chronicled the era in newspapers, short stories, and novels in...  Read More >>

In 1865 Walt Whitman was dismissed from his clerkship in the Department of the Interior because Secretary James...  Read More >>