Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years ea...

The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primari...

Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The mighty heroines save one ano...

Australian crime fiction has grown from the country's origins as an 18th-century English prison colony. Early stories focused on escaped convict...

While narratives of enslavement have become more central to conversations about African American womens writing, this book first discusses the genr...

Cervantes is regarded as the author of the first novel and the inventor of fiction. From its publication in 1605, Don Quixote--recently named th...

What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. Herman Melville wrote these wo...

Central to every vampire story is the undead's need for human blood, but equally compelling is the human ingestion of vampire blood, which often...

Lauded by critics yet largely unappreciated by fans of horror and weird fiction, T.E.D. Klein is considered one of the great horror writers, des...

We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entitiesgovernments and...

This Companion offers a compelling survey of American literature in the 1930s. These thirteen new essays by accomplished scholars in the field prov...

For the first time since the sixteenth century, a new edition is here made available of the first book of Laurent de Premierfait''s French version ...

James I. Wimsatt edits Guillaume de Machaut''s important Dit de la fleur de lis et de la Marguerite; he identifies an acrostic connecting the earli...

In her study of Marie de France''s twelfth century poem, The Lay of Guingamor, Sara Strum examines the work as a hero-quest tale in the vein of Chr...

This collection of fifty-seven essays, manifestos, and other prose writings on literature, painting, music, and cinema is drawn from various litt...

Nineteenth-century Britain gave birth to the fantasy novel and the science fiction novel--two of today's most popular genres. During the same pe...

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and Englands national poet, died. ...

Since their inception, detective novels have been a wildly successful genre of American fiction, featuring a uniquely American belief in rugged ...

The storm has become a universal trope in the literature of crisis, revelation and transformation. It can function as a trope of place, of apocalyp...

In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdi...

A landmark volume that explores the interconnected nature of technologies and rhetorical practice. Rhetorical Machines addresses new approaches to...

The Instructions are Saint Louis''s second set of recommendations, which he addressed to his daughter Isabelle, who later became Queen of Navarre. ...

The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a majo...