Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of...

The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political ev...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the mult...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and...

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteen...

The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and po...

The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, ...

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year sp...

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores ...

How often does a novel earn its author both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to Harper Lee by George W. Bush in 2007, and a spot on a lis...

Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America offers the first extended comparison between American writers Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) and Jean Toomer...

We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, ...

A timely, accessible introduction to Margaret Atwood's most recent novels and enduring themes.In 2017, the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The...

This book challenges distinctions between popular and serious literature by recognizing le Carré as one of the most significant ethicists in contem...

Victorians views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people...

Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange and productivity Early modern poem...

Since the start of the twentieth century, poets have been irresistibly drawn to the image of the poem as a kind of data-handling, a way of mediatin...

Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (19252015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island...

David Drake is recognized as one of the United States most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his potsmany inscribed with origina...

Throughout American history there has been an oddly close relationship between the seductive appeals of narrative fiction and those of political rh...

A collection of short stories by Renée Vivien (1877-1909). Reflects and challenges attitudes of the belle epoque, questions gender roles, and repre...

Tragedy has been reborn many times since antiquity. Seventeenth-century French playwrights composed tragedies marked by neoclassical aesthetics and...

During her lifetime, Lydia Sigourney was acclaimed as nineteenth-century America's most popular woman poet and published widely as a historian, tra...

Recounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that p...