Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

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

Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women's writing has flourished in many genres and locations, enco...

Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed ...

Known for his maxim make it new, Ezra Pound played a principal role in shaping the modernist movement as a poet, translator, and literary critic. Y...

Jane Austen is a favorite with many students, whether they've read her novels or viewed popular film adaptations. But Persuasion (1817), completed ...

In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary Am...

In the decades since his 1992 breakout novel, All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy has gained a reputation as one of the greatest contemporary Am...

Known for his maxim make it new, Ezra Pound played a principal role in shaping the modernist movement as a poet, translator, and literary critic. Y...

Mexicana and Chicana authors from the late 1970s to the turn of the century helped overturn the patriarchal literary culture and mores of their tim...

From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical succes...

Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish impe...

Central America has a long history as a site of cultural and political exchange, from Mayan and Nahua trade networks to the effects of Spanish impe...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El...

Don Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de L...

A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Coop...

'Radical, intrepid, compendious, /A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures/, goes far toward restoring 'postcolonialism' to its historica...

At the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Ho...

The first in-depth study in English to analyze post-utopian historical novels written during and in the wake of brutal Latin American dictatorships...

Illuminating the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien's legendariumIn this remarkable work of ...

This collection of essays analyzes the various manifestations of racism in Gothic narratives: literature, film, TV, architecture. The primary goal ...

In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of W...

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...

Contested Terrain explores suburban literature between two moments of domestic crisis: the housing shortage that gave rise to the modern era of sub...

The contributions to this volume not only indicate the intellectual vibrancy and diversity of cutting-edge research in Holocaust studies but also r...

Debunking myths plays a crucial role in media literacy, but doing so can let us overlook why myths are created in the first place and why we need t...

An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, The Mirr...