Literary companions books

In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and...  Read More >>

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Examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler...  Read More >>

Melding cultural history with thoughtful readings of Willa Cather’s works and discussions of opera’s complex place...  Read More >>

Traces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic....  Read More >>

Approaches American literary naturalism as a means of social criticism, exploring the powerful economic arguments...  Read More >>

In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and...  Read More >>

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Demonstrates how Latinx literature for young readers reveals the oppressions that affect the everyday lives of Latinx...  Read More >>

Taking up case studies of four poets who began writing during the 1950s and 1960s, M.C. Kinniburgh shows that the...  Read More >>

A three-volume set of the definitive Stoke Newington Editions of Robinson Crusoe. The set includes the novels and...  Read More >>

First published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, this is a collection...  Read More >>

A three-volume set of the definitive Stoke Newington Editions of Robinson Crusoe. The set includes the novels and...  Read More >>

This collection of essays commenting on the themes of The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...  Read More >>

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Argues for the benefits and potential of ‘primary science fiction’, or science fiction for children under twelve...  Read More >>

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Written in Portugal in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, Song of Exile has inspired thousands of parodies,...  Read More >>

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Chronicles the weirdest, ugliest, and most mixed-up characters to appear on the literary scene since World War II...  Read More >>

A collection of cutting-edge essays on Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving...  Read More >>

W. B. Yeats’s A Vision is notoriously dense. This book provides an authoritative, clear and straightforward guide...  Read More >>

Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of...  Read More >>

Explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial...  Read More >>