Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

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

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

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

Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their coll...

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

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that’s...

Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess is a literary and cultural history of a place: the Gullah Geechee Coast, a four-state area that’s...

Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was ...

David Drake is recognized as one of the United States’ most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his pots—many inscribed with origi...

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

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

When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time. Echoes of Dorothy and her frien...

Author Robert Penn Warren's fiction captures centuries worth of mythology and folklore from all across the globe, from Hebrew, Norse, Roman and Car...

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...

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...