Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Ham...

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally ...

Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance...

Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality is a comprehensive collection which provides, for the first time in one volume, many texts unavailable...

Now Read On brings together literatures in English from around the world, combining an excellent choice of texts with sound methodological guidance...

Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality is a comprehensive collection which provides, for the first time in one volume, many texts unavailable...

First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 — a period that saw a re...

First published in 1995, this title provides the reader with a compendium of useful information for any reader of George Herbert to have at hand. I...

First published in 1989. Generations of critics have seen George Eliot as a conservative Victorian high moralist and sybil. Vocation and Desire que...

First published in 1998, this title provides for the reader of the renowned metaphysical poet and politician a valuable reference and resource volu...

First published in 1969. George Eliot is a writer of ordinary human experience, whose work emphasizes commonplace characters and commonplace situat...

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essa...

This title, first published in 1970, consists of essays on the individual tales and novels of George Eliot, with two general essays that discuss th...

This exhaustive reference work examines the complete fictional works of Dick Francis, a former steeplechase jockey to Queen Elizabeth the Queen ...

This collection of H.P. Lovecraft's most influential works presents several of his most famous stories, a sampling of his poetry and an abridgme...

'Scholarly, ambitious and scrupulous'. This is how the TLS recently described the Oxford Reader's Companion Series. In September 2000, the book wh...

Elizabeth Ham's 1845 novel, The Ford Family in Ireland, provides a snapshot, based on the personal experiences of the author, of a pivotal period i...

With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. ...

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as scienc...

This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as scienc...

This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, ref...

Los Angeles Review of Books is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition...

Los Angeles Review of Books is an independent, nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition...

Launched in 2011 as online magazine to revive the great American tradition of the long-form literary and cultural arts review, the Los Angeles Revi...