Books in the Cambridge Companions to Literature series

Featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is a valuable and insightful companion for those studying and reading Hughes in the context of his role in the development of modern poetry.

This Companion is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets. It provides new approaches to a wide range of influential women's poetry, a chronology and guide to further reading.

This Companion introduces the reader to the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500-1700. The volume is innovative in its attention to the materiality of writing, to the spaces in which women characteristically wrote, and to the varied genres or modes they used.

This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children.

Albert Camus is one of the iconic figures of twentieth-century French literature. This 2007 Companion explores his best-selling novels, his ambiguous engagement with philosophy, his theatre, his work as a journalist and his reflections on ethical and political questions that continue to concern readers today.

This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It addresses how queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading. In so doing this Companion details the chief genres, historical backgrounds, and interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

This Companion examines the connections between LGBTQ populations and American literature from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It addresses how queerness pervades persons, texts, bodies, and reading. In so doing this Companion details the chief genres, historical backgrounds, and interpretive practices that support the analysis of LGBTQ literatures in the United States.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) was one of the central figures in literary modernism in the 1910s. She played an important role in the early development of modernist poetry. This Cambridge Companion is a critical introduction to H. D. containing essays on all her major works.

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) was one of the central figures in literary modernism in the 1910s. She played an important role in the early development of modernist poetry. This Cambridge Companion is a critical introduction to H. D. containing essays on all her major works.

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 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.

Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. Specially-commissioned essays in this Companion explore Shepard's career: his life, plays, poetry, music, fiction, acting, directing and film work.

This collected volume addresses all aspects of Mary Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. It illuminates not only her major work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but also the full range of her writing, and assesses her significance in her own time and since.

A thorough and accessible guide to the Gothic genre. Essays explore the relationship with political and industrial revolutions, other literary traditions, nationalism and racism, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, and changing attitudes towards human identity. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

This collection of specially commissioned essays, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. This Companion focuses on key terms in Lacan's work and will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to a formidable and influential thinker.

This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today. The volume covers the full range of Mamet's writing, as well as his films, such as The Verdict and Wag the Dog.

Emile Zola is a major literary figure of the nineteenth century. The essays in this volume focus on Zola's originality, his works, his life and times and his role in the Dreyfus Affair. The Companion also includes a chronology, summaries of all of Zola's novels and suggestions for further reading.

Leading international scholars address the highly colourful life and work of August Strindberg, one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists. Focussing mainly on his most frequently-performed plays, the Companion also discusses his novels, including the vivid Inferno, his much-publicised hostility to women and his lifelong interest in the occult.

With its range of expert essays and readings, detailed chronology of Salman Rushdie's life and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading, this volume will be invaluable to undergraduates studying Rushdie and to the general reader interested in his work.

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.