Literary companions books

The past fifteen years have seen an important shift in the way scholars look at socialist realism. Where it was...  Read More >>

This book is designed to enhance the understanding of those who read Chekhov's stories or watch his plays. It reveals...  Read More >>

The creator of the Outlander series gives fans the skinny on her epic saga of time travel, adventure, and love everlasting,...  Read More >>

The eleven essays that make up this volume, including a paper written by the acclaimed novelist William Kennedy,...  Read More >>

An examination of how the works of five African American writers reveal the power of communal bonds  Read More >>

Develop a rich foundation of world geographical knowledge and skills using the best of children's literature.  Read More >>

Through medieval interpretations of Dante's sources, Marc Cogan discovers a single consistent moral and theological...  Read More >>

Tracing the development of a black community in the trans-Mississippi West, Thomas Cox probes the political, social,...  Read More >>

The society of the postbellum South was built upon two interweaving but ultimately irreconcilable systems: a racist...  Read More >>

Daniel Hoffman's bold new readings reveal unsuspected dimensions in Faulkner's The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and...  Read More >>

The New Orleans writer Grace King was an intensely loyal daughter of the South. Fostered by bitter memories of the...  Read More >>

What contributed to Grace King's critical acclaim, and her continued importance across time, was the panoramic view...  Read More >>

What does it mean to be a Southern writer in the 1970s? What is the nature of today's South and what prospects does...  Read More >>

Chosen by Eleanor Copenhaver Anderson before her death in 1985 to publish her husband's secret love letters, Anderson...  Read More >>

In Yeoman Versus Cavalier: The Old Southwest's Fictional Road to Rebellion, Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr., examines...  Read More >>

William Gilmore Simms was the preeminent southern man of letters in the antebellum period, a prolific, talented...  Read More >>

Marcia Gaudet and Carl Wooton's Porch Talk with Ernest Gaines is a collection of interviews conducted on the porch...  Read More >>

One of America's more perceptive younger critics, Louis Rubin is well known for his commentaries on the literature...  Read More >>

Focuses on four representative poets - Louise Bogan, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, and Adrienne Rich - to explore...  Read More >>

Robert Kirschten maintains that most formal analyses of Jams Dickey's poetry have been unsatisfactory or at best...  Read More >>

Examines the work of post-Civil War southern writers who criticize the myth of the South as pastoral paradise. Sooner...  Read More >>

For more than forty years William Dean Howells counted Mark Twain among his closest friends. Twain's death on April...  Read More >>

Louis D. Rubin, Jr., brings forty years of critical integrity and imaginative involvement with the history and literature...  Read More >>

Examines the interlocking careers and influence of six black clergymen, two of them fugitive slaves, who lived in...  Read More >>

Writing from a conviction of the centrality and worth of Walker Percy's work, as well as from the idea that fresh...  Read More >>