Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

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...