Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society. It explore...

In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Nig...

Stafford introduces the rich interpretive possibilities in a contextual analysis of literature. He finds in <3>Moby Dick<1>, <3>T...

This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who b...

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avil's, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe García McCall, D...

Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avilés, Trevor Boffone, Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe García McCall, D...

Whether it is a cup of plenty or the container of Christ's blood, the Holy Grail has always been a symbol of aspiration and longing. This volume su...

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ...

Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the obscurity of his language, the comp...

The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought ...

In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers wou...

The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his la...

First published in English in 1926, this work by Nikolai Bukharin, a highly influential Marxist and Soviet Politician who would later become one of...

Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inc...

@text: The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work. These plays a...

This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular cult...

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of twenty-four essays written by Frank Kermode between 1958 and early 1961, and are all concern...

Within the English-speaking world, no work of the German High Middle Ages is better known than the Nibelungenlied, which has stirred the imaginatio...

First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley’s life and work presents the poet no...

Late 19th century science fiction stories and utopian treatises focused on morals and attitudes supporting economic, sociological and at times Marx...

'A brilliant, unlikely book' SpectatorHow can we celebrate, challenge and change our remarkable world? In 2012, the world arrived in London for the...

A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster In Zombiescapes and Phantom Zo...