Bücher der Reihe Cambridge Companions to Literature

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century, best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing, and will be an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.

The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789 brings together the most recent scholarship by leading scholars in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of women's writing in eighteenth-century Britain. The chapters discuss both canonical and lesser-known women writers in multiple genres, including poetry, drama, fiction and travel writing.

While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. This Companion introduces the distinctive drama of playwrights from Shakespeare's time, including Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Jonson and Webster. The book also covers Shakespeare as a collaborator and the difficult question of co-authorship.

While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. This Companion introduces the distinctive drama of playwrights from Shakespeare's time, including Kyd, Marlowe, Middleton, Jonson and Webster. The book also covers Shakespeare as a collaborator and the difficult question of co-authorship.

This Companion examines the intellectual and social contexts surrounding the influential Bloomsbury Group while providing fresh, incisive portraits of its members, which include luminaries such as writer Virginia Woolf, economist Maynard Keynes, art critic Roger Fry, and others.

A historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. Sixteen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diverse forms, audiences, styles, and motives that are loosely collected under the rubric of autobiography.

A historical overview of the genre from the foundational works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau through the great autobiographies of the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras. Sixteen essays from distinguished scholars and critics explore the diverse forms, audiences, styles, and motives that are loosely collected under the rubric of autobiography.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry.

Covering subjects from immigration and environmentalism to science and globalism, The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain, thus making it an essential resource for students and specialists alike.

Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume of sixteen original essays explores the many aspects of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and explores the novel in social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, showing how critical theories such as ecocriticism, posthumanism and queer theory generate new and important discussion.

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth examines Wordsworth's poetic achievement; chapters cover his poetic craft, the origin of his poetry and on the challenges it presented and continues to present. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of Wordsworth's career and his critical reception.

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the thought of the highly influential twentieth-century critic and theorist Walter Benjamin. The volume provides examinations of the different aspects of Benjamin's work that have had a significant effect on contemporary critical and historical thought.

Introductory essays by major scholars provide individual studies of the major poets of the early seventeenth century, together with an exploration of political, social, religious and literary issues of the time, enhancing an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse by setting it in its cultural and ideological context.

In the history of modern theatre Ibsen, is one of the dominating figures. The sixteen chapters of this 1994 Companion explore his life, plays, poetry and influence on the modern theatre.

This Companion contains fifteen chapters by leading international scholars. They consider Pound's entire corpus, and also situate his work in the context of modernism. Taken together, the chapters offer a sustained examination of one of the most versatile, influential and certainly controversial poets of the modern period.

Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures in Restoration literature. With its full bibliography, detailed chronology and biographical information, this Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.

This Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the state of Modern American literature and cultural studies.

This collection of essays by ten major scholars explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import.

This wide-ranging volume covers Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years through to his last play before his death in 1983. In addition to essays on the plays, the contributors also consider selected short stories, poems, and biographical concerns and a bibliographic chapter surveys the major critical statements on Williams.

A unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries.

This volume analyzes major premises, preoccupations, and practices of English poets writing from 1700 to the 1790s. Specially-commissioned essays, supported by guides to further reading, avoid familiar categories and single-author approaches to look at the century afresh, exploring such large poetic themes as nature, the city, politics, gender and dreams.

Brings together essays examining English literary culture in the Restoration and early eighteenth century, from Milton and Marvell to Pope and Montagu.

This collection of specially commissioned essays will enable readers to explores Frost's art and thought, from the controversies of his biography to his reinvention of poetic and metric traditions. This volume is complemented by a chronology and guide to further reading which will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.

The Cambridge Companion to Proust, first published in 2001, aims to provide a broad account of the major features of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Progressing from background and biographical material, the chapters investigate such essential areas as the composition of the novel, its social dimension, its intellectual parameters and its humour.

This volume brings together new essays representing the latest scholarly thinking on the novelist's work, including Madame Bovary, and his critical legacy. The essays combine textual analysis with theoretical and contextual considerations of Flaubert's work and influence. This invaluable book includes a chronology and suggestions for further reading.

Drawing on new research in social and political history, and offering detailed readings of key texts, this multifaceted picture of the British novel in its formative decades provides an indispensable guide for students of the eighteenth-century novel and its place within the culture of its time.

These essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing.

This second edition contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. The volume is stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom.

Satire as a genre was first developed by the Romans and regarded as completely 'their own'. In this Companion a leading international cast of contributors provides a stimulating introduction aimed particularly at non-specialists. Satires' generic and literary features are explored, as well as their role as social discourse and reception.