Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line o...

In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line o...

Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature. By exami...

The chronological arrangement of entries depends on the earliest-known appearance of each allusion: in manuscript, under year of composition; in bo...

Although well known to experts in English literature, Guilpin's Skialetheia has been available only in inadequate texts until now. This edition of ...

Winner of the 2022 International Latino Book Award: Bronze Medal for Fiction Translation, Spanish to EnglishEl feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilin...

Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature. By exami...

The novels of Toni Morrison depict a disjointed culture striving to coalesce in a racialized society. No other contemporary writer conveys this “do...

Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mel...

A Queer History of Adolescence reveals categories of age—and adolescence, specifically—as an undeniable and essential mechanism in the production o...

Ide argues that some of Chapman's and Shakespeare's best Jacobean plays are related by genre, tragic hero, and the type of tragic conflict. Althoug...

During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, i...

William Faulkner grew up and began his writing career during a time of great cultural upheaval, especially in the realm of sexuality, where every n...

Callow explores the almost legendary association of Bryant with Cole, and he recalls such author-artist pairs as Willis and Harding, Paulding and J...

A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American life, not least due t...

This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.Mark Twain and...

Formed in 1960 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a high-profile civil rights collective led by ...

Leyburn shows the evolution in the early works of James's power of relating comedy and tragedy and then analyzes some of the ways in which, as a ma...

A descendent of two U.S. presidents and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Henry Adams enjoyed a very particular place in American life, not least due t...

How have African American writers drawn on bad men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question...

In addition to being a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and essayist, Langston Hughes was also a globe-trotting cosmopolitan, travel writer, trans...

When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that...

Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambig...

Using the selected works of eight twentieth-century writers, Wilson demonstrates how literature forms the essential evidence in his inquiry into th...

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)— and many not so famous—wrote li...

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner desc...

This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne ...

With contributions from Robert G. Barrier, Robert Beuka, Thomas Ærvold Bjerre, Jean W. Cash, Robert Donahoo, Richard Gaughran, Gary Hawkins, Darli...

Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mel...

The discussions of Church in this discerning study indicate precisely how an author's concept of time influences the value and meaning of his or he...

Virtually every famous nineteenth-century writer (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson)— and many not so famous—wrote li...

This is the first full-length biography of James Lane Allen (1849-1925), son of the Kentucky Bluegrass region, and a representative writer of the n...

When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that...

This innovative analysis shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wake—the dreamlike m...

In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a ...