Literary companions, book reviews and guides

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.

Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think about the American love story and how we imagine the love of literature.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to English poetry, tracing its evolution from the Age of Chaucer to the Romantic Period.

In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that made him a critic-his love for the written word.

This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, captivity emerged as a persistent metaphor as well as a material reality.

The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C.

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First published in 1980.

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

In "e;A Serpentine Gesture"e;: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W.

Drawing on the latest scholarship and criticism, this new Companion provides an authoritative, accessible introduction to Eliot''s complete oeuvre.

First published in 1902, this volume was edited from the unique manuscript, Laud Misc.

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism.

In this remarkable, landmark publication, countryman Sir Johnny Scott evokes all that is romantic about the British countryside, its people, customs and traditions.

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While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors.

Two original essays and 16 published since 1950 offer a comprehensive view of Cynewulf, his language, and his poetry.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years.

First published in 1991.

First published in 2001.

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS.

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes?

This Companion provides a chronological survey of Latin American poetry, analysis of modern trends and six succinct essays on the major figures.

Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911), a chamber president of the German Supreme Court who was institutionalized after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman.

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

First published in 1970.

First published in 1954, this title is a companion to The Anatomy of Poetry as a literary guide for the student reader.

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Zizek to literary criticism and theory.

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

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

Originally published in 1983, D.

In this study, first published in 1983, Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes.

Explores a major eighteenth-century narrative and the power of the Crusoe figure beyond the pages of the original book.

There they sit, the great tomes of classical literature, taunting you with their length and difficulty, as you ask: which books are the most important and why - and what's actually any good?

Jane Tompkins, a renowned literature professor and award-winning author, thought she knew what reading was until, struck by a debilitating illness, she finds herself reading day and night because it is all she can do.

First published in 1988.

Accessible and informative account of Dante''s great Commedia: its purpose, themes and styles, and its reception over the centuries.

Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol's absurdist masterpiece "e;The Nose.

This book is about what does not happen in the Victorian novel.

This book, first published in 1950, could best be described as a combination of literary, psychological and social criticism.

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 ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel.

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials.

This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985.

David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing.

Published in 1979: This is a play based on the reign of King John with notes.