Literary companions, book reviews and guides

A state-of-the-field review of critical perspectives on the work of Anthony Trollope.

The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals.

First published in 1987.

Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967.

Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat is one of the most recognized writers today.

Originally published in 1987 Barnaby Rudge is a comprehensive collection of bibliographical resources surrounding Dickens fifth novel Barnaby Rudge.

This collection, first published in 1982, brings together thirteen writers from a wide variety of critical traditions to take a fresh look at Joyce and his crucial position not only in English literature but in modern literature as a whole.

In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant; the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian.

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken.

First published in 1981.

Anne Spencer's identity as an artist grew from her relationship to the natural world.

Rather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world.

This Companion shows how literature and science inform one another and that they''re more closely aligned than they typically appear.

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

The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, including short fiction, poetry, public addresses, memoirs, and essays, accompanied by detailed annotations and concise introductions.

This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres, Tragedy, offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and fifty years.

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction''s genres, themes, and concepts.

As the first nineteenth century woman to successfully campaign for women's rights legislation, Caroline Norton has been comparatively neglected and under-researched.

This book, first published in 1926, aimed to introduce to English readers to a great and complex foreign writer in as simple terms as possible.

This is the second volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period January 1838-November 1857.

One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) was also a pioneer of women's writing.

This collection brings together the best of C.

Rather than reading small-town representations in Canadian literature as portraits of a parochial past or a lost golden age, this book claims that they are best understood as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in an ever-more cosmopolitan world.

Yeats and his shadow are one of the most closely scrutinised pairs in contemporary literary history.

First published in 1989.

Why the university should focus on community: "e;An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry's philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education.

First published in 1977, this book focuses on Modernism, one of the most frequently used terms in the discussion of twentieth-century literature and culture.

Comparative Literature explores an 'area of interest' rather than a special discipline.

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 not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light.

The site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation's most acclaimed writers.

A compelling, comprehensive, and substantive introduction to the work of David Foster Wallace.

First published in 1980.

Explores 1930s authors, genres, and contexts, giving fresh attention to well-known authors and bringing new writers and approaches to the fore.

Every bookshop has a storyWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature.

This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.

An ebook compilation of inspirational writings, featuring seven classic works in one high quality, fully searchable edition:The compilation includes:'Mere Christianity'The Screwtape Letters'Surprised by Joy'The Four Loves'The Problem of Pain'The Great Divorce'Miracles'C.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T.

First published in 1987.

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

Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem.

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America.

Saul Steinberg's inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century.

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

This set reissues two volumes entitled A Book of Broadsheets and A Second Book of Broadsheets, both with introductions by Geoffrey Dawson, a former editor of The Times.

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history.

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood''s career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid''s Tale.

This book sheds light on how the text and physical design of James Joyce's two most challenging works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, reflect changes that transformed Europe between World War I and II.