Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Companions to Literature

Suitable for students of English literature and creative writing alike, this book is an introduction to the techniques of good prose writing. Written in an engaging style by eminent scholars, critics, novelists, and biographers, it is a handbook on the art of prose as exemplified by the best writers of fiction and creative non-fiction.

This book is for readers interested in how literature tackles climate change, 'petro-culture', extinction, and the proposed 'human' epoch of the Anthropocene. Chapters discuss flooding, pollution, oil, humans, and animals, while revisiting old and new literary forms, including novels, poems, plays, and gaming.

Providing a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to their evolving surroundings, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century British literature, culture and thought.

Providing a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to their evolving surroundings, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century British literature, culture and thought.

This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature.

This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature.

This Companion explores the multi-faceted life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, monastic founder, visionary, composer, and writer of religious and scientific texts. Designed for advanced students and new Hildegard researchers, it includes essays by experts in medieval history, theology, German literature, musicology, and history of medicine.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion provides the first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life during the British Romantic period (1780s-1832). The collection of seventeen scholarly essays introduces the diverse religious influences on the literature of the times.

Grounded in the complex history of literature and psychoanalysis, this volume introduces and explains the challenges of interpreting contemporary forms of literacy and media, and new mentalities through psychoanalytic methodologies.

Grounded in the complex history of literature and psychoanalysis, this volume introduces and explains the challenges of interpreting contemporary forms of literacy and media, and new mentalities through psychoanalytic methodologies.

This Companion explores the multi-faceted life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, monastic founder, visionary, composer, and writer of religious and scientific texts. Designed for advanced students and new Hildegard researchers, it includes essays by experts in medieval history, theology, German literature, musicology, and history of medicine.

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as Black feminism, food studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, and queer theory, it reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as Black feminism, food studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, and queer theory, it reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

This book introduces students to the field of climate and literature while offering seasoned scholars novel ways to approach its dynamic expansions. It highlights diversity across geography, race, and class, as well as genre. It not only introduces key issues but also puts emerging themes in conversation.

This book introduces students to the field of climate and literature while offering seasoned scholars novel ways to approach its dynamic expansions. It highlights diversity across geography, race, and class, as well as genre. It not only introduces key issues but also puts emerging themes in conversation.

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

Accessible yet comprehensive, this is the first systematic account of crime fiction's rich history and extraordinary diversity across the globe. Deeply informative for general fiction readers, it also offers an important introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.

This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

This book provides an essential guide to one of the most popular contemporary genres. Ranging across disciplines, underpinned by historical scholarship and alert to the latest thinking, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in America's dark past and present.

This book provides an essential guide to one of the most popular contemporary genres. Ranging across disciplines, underpinned by historical scholarship and alert to the latest thinking, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in America's dark past and present.

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twenty carefully-curated essays make cutting-edge scholarship available to diverse readers, while touting the ongoing relevance of this period and its literature to our contemporary moment.

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twenty carefully-curated essays make cutting-edge scholarship available to diverse readers, while touting the ongoing relevance of this period and its literature to our contemporary moment.