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This Companion provides an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. It explores key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes.

This book is an excellent, insightful introduction to medieval English mystical texts, their authors, readers and communities. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, the Companion offers an accessible overview for students of literature, history and theology.

Now best known for three great novels - Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews and Amelia - Henry Fielding (1707-54) made a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century culture. This collection of specially-commissioned essays, with a chronology and guide to further reading, offers a comprehensive account of Fielding's life and work.

This Companion presents fourteen vibrant new contributions to the debate on African American women's literature. Covering a period that dates back to the eighteenth century, these specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison.

Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. These specially-commissioned essays trace the journeys taken by writers from the pre-revolutionary period right up to the present. This Companion forms an invaluable guide for students approaching this new, important and exciting subject for the first time.

Francois Rabelais, who flourished in sixteenth-century France, is widely considered as the Renaissance's greatest comic writer. The most up-to-date book on Rabelais to be designed specifically for English-speaking audiences, this Companion is intended to enable a broad spectrum of readers both to appreciate and to enjoy Rabelais.

This Companion offers wide coverage of Grass's oeuvre across the range of media in which he works, including literature, television and visual arts. The newly commissioned essays explain, in a fresh and lively fashion, the fundamentals that students and readers need in order to understand Grass and his individual works.

Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. With its invaluable guide to further reading and a chronology of Rilke's life and work, this Companion will provide an accessible, engaging account of this extraordinary poet.

Why group Shakespeare's last plays together? When does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in late studies, in this book leading international Shakespeare scholars address these questions, locating Shakespeare's last six plays in the period of their composition and considering the significant characteristics of their Jacobean context.

Andrew Marvell is one of the greatest lyric poets of England's seventeenth century and one of its leading political writers. This Companion brings a set of fresh questions and perspectives to bear on the varied career and diverse writings of a remarkable writer and elusive man.

This Companion, designed for students of American history, African-American studies and literature, includes perspectives from a range of disciplines. Key topics in Douglass studies and his individual works are covered in depth. Accessible in style, this book is both a lucid introduction and a contribution to existing scholarship.

This Companion focuses on British and American war writing, across centuries, forms and themes, to allow both local and comparative approaches. The chronology synthesises the key texts from each historical and contemporary war. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field and includes suggestions for further reading.

This highly successful Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship on Woolf since the first edition was published. This second edition includes five new chapters, and the remaining chapters as well as the guide to further reading have all been fully updated.

This book offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. John T. Matthews provides an introduction to the new ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.

This book offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. John T. Matthews provides an introduction to the new ways Faulkner is being read in the twenty-first century, and bears witness to his continued importance as an American and world writer.

John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the Irish Revival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin's Abbey Theatre. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the whole range of Synge's work, most famously Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World.

This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It features the verse of groups such as Native Americans, African-Americans and women, as well as covering more familiar figures such as Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow and Melville.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed and controversial of writers in English. This Companion explores his main themes, the different genres in which he worked and the various phases of his career. It also examines his works' afterlives in postcolonial writing and through adaptations of his work.

Fully revised to take recent developments in the field into account, with an up-to-date guide to further reading, this edition includes two new essays, on recent developments in the field, and on the rapidly expanding publishing industry of this period.

This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. The essays place the various literary traditions within a social and historical context and set out recent critical debates.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is among the most popular, acclaimed and controversial of writers in English. This Companion explores his main themes, the different genres in which he worked and the various phases of his career. It also examines his works' afterlives in postcolonial writing and through adaptations of his work.

This essential 2011 reference guide offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. There are chapters on the period's significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo.

Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers the elusive author's biography and all seven of his novels, surveying topics such as history, politics and science and technology.

This essential 2011 reference guide offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. There are chapters on the period's significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors: Ralph Ellison, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo.

Since Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.

Since Tolkien, Pratchett, Rowling, Pullman and Meyer, fantasy literature has become one of the most popular genres in the English-speaking world. This book puts this publishing phenomenon in a historical context, suggests different ways of reading and appreciating this literature, and examines some of its varieties and subgenres.

Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers the elusive author's biography and all seven of his novels, surveying topics such as history, politics and science and technology.

This Companion's chapters chart the development of Vargas Llosa's writings from his rise to prominence in the early 1960s to the Nobel Prize for Literature (2010). His narrative fiction is the main focus, but his role as a cultural and political figure is also explored in this engaging, informative book.

A definitive and up-to-date survey of popular fiction from its early nineteenth-century origins to the contemporary world of bestsellers, graphic narratives, computer gaming and visual fictions, including a long view of the increasingly global market for popular writing.

This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsburg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history.