The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics form a book series published by Cambridge University Press. Each book is a collection of essays on the topic commissioned by the publisher.
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Sherlock Holmes | Janice M. Allan, Christopher Pittard | 2019 |
Roman Comedy | Martin T. Dinter | 2019 |
Edward Albee | Stephen J. Bottoms | |
Margaret Atwood | Coral Ann Howells | |
W. H. Auden | Stan Smith | |
Jane Austen | Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (second edition) | |
James Baldwin | Michele Elam | 2015 |
Beckett | John Pilling | |
Bede | Scott DeGregorio | |
Aphra Behn | Derek Hughes and Janet Todd | |
Walter Benjamin | David S. Ferris | |
William Blake | Morris Eaves | |
Boccaccio | Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner | |
Jorge Luis Borges | Edwin Williamson | |
Brecht | Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (second edition) | |
The Brontës | Heather Glen | |
Bunyan | Anne Dunan-Page | |
Frances Burney | Peter Sabor | |
Byron | Drummond Bone | |
Albert Camus | Edward J. Hughes | |
Willa Cather | Marilee Lindemann | |
Miguel de Cervantes | Anthony J. Cascardi | |
Chaucer | Piero Boitani and Jill Mann (second edition) | |
Chekhov | Vera Gottlieb and Paul Allain | |
Kate Chopin | Janet Beer | |
Caryl Churchill | Elaine Aston and Elin Diamond | |
Cicero | Catherine Steel | |
Coleridge | Lucy Newlyn | |
Wilkie Collins | Jenny Bourne Taylor | |
Joseph Conrad | J. H. Stape | |
H. D. | Nephie J. Christodoulides and Polina Mackay | |
Dante | Rachel Jacoff (second edition) | |
Daniel Defoe | John Richetti | |
Don DeLillo | John N. Duvall | |
Charles Dickens | John O. Jordan | |
Emily Dickinson | Wendy Martin | |
John Donne | Achsah Guibbory | |
Dostoevskii | W. J. Leatherbarrow | |
Theodore Dreiser | Leonard Cassuto and Claire Virginia Eby | |
John Dryden | Steven N. Zwicker | |
W. E. B. Du Bois | Shamoon Zamir | |
George Eliot | George Levine | |
T. S. Eliot | A. David Moody | |
Ralph Ellison | Ross Posnock | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Joel Porte and Saundra Morris | |
William Faulkner | Philip M. Weinstein | |
Henry Fielding | Claude Rawson | |
F. Scott Fitzgerald | Ruth Prigozy | |
Flaubert | Timothy Unwin | |
E. M. Forster | David Bradshaw | |
Benjamin Franklin | Carla Mulford | |
Brian Friel | Anthony Roche | |
Robert Frost | Robert Faggen | |
Gabriel García Márquez | Philip Swanson | |
Elizabeth Gaskell | Jill L. Matus | |
Goethe | Lesley Sharpe | |
Günter Grass | Stuart Taberner | |
Thomas Hardy | Dale Kramer | |
David Hare | Richard Boon | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Richard Millington | |
Seamus Heaney | Bernard O'Donoghue | |
Ernest Hemingway | Scott Donaldson | |
Homer | Robert Fowler | |
Horace | Stephen Harrison | |
Ted Hughes | Terry Gifford | |
Ibsen | James McFarlane | |
Henry James | Jonathan Freedman | |
Samuel Johnson | Greg Clingham | |
Ben Jonson | Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart | |
James Joyce | Derek Attridge (second edition) | |
Kafka | Julian Preece | |
Keats | Susan J. Wolfson | |
Rudyard Kipling | Howard J. Booth | |
Lacan | Jean-Michel Rabaté | |
D. H. Lawrence | Anne Fernihough | |
Primo Levi | Robert Gordon | |
Lucretius | Stuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie | |
Machiavelli | John M. Najemy | |
David Mamet | Christopher Bigsby | |
Thomas Mann | Ritchie Robertson | |
Christopher Marlowe | Patrick Cheney | |
Andrew Marvell | Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker | |
Herman Melville | Robert S. Levine | |
Arthur Miller | Christopher Bigsby (second edition) | |
Milton | Dennis Danielson (second edition) | |
Molière | David Bradby and Andrew Calder | |
Toni Morrison | Justine Tally | |
Alice Munro | David Staines | |
Nabokov | Julian W. Connolly | |
Eugene O'Neill | Michael Manheim | |
George Orwell | John Rodden | |
Ovid | Philip Hardie | |
Petrarch | Albert Russell Ascoli and Unn Falkeid | |
Harold Pinter | Peter Raby (second edition) | |
Sylvia Plath | Jo Gill | |
Edgar Allan Poe | Kevin J. Hayes | |
Alexander Pope | Pat Rogers | |
Ezra Pound | Ira B. Nadel | |
Proust | Richard Bales | |
Pushkin | Andrew Kahn | |
Rabelais | John O'Brien | |
Rilke | Karen Leeder and Robert Vilain | |
Philip Roth | Timothy Parrish | |
Salman Rushdie | Abdulrazak Gurnah | |
John Ruskin | Francis O'Gorman | |
Shakespeare | Margareta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (second edition) | |
Shakespearean Comedy | Alexander Leggatt | |
Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists | Ton Hoenselaars | |
Shakespeare and Popular Culture | Robert Shaughnessy | |
Shakespearean Tragedy | Claire McEachern (second edition) | |
Shakespeare on Film | Russell Jackson (second edition) | |
Shakespeare on Stage | Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton | |
Shakespeare's History Plays | Michael Hattaway | |
Shakespeare's Last Plays | Catherine M. S. Alexander | |
Shakespeare's Poetry | Patrick Cheney | |
George Bernard Shaw | Christopher Innes | |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Timothy Morton | |
Mary Shelley | Esther Schor | |
Sam Shepard | Matthew C. Roudané | |
Spenser | Andrew Hadfield | |
Laurence Sterne | Thomas Keymer | |
Wallace Stevens | John N. Serio | |
Tom Stoppard | Katherine E. Kelly | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Cindy Weinstein | |
August Strindberg | Michael Robinson | |
Jonathan Swift | Christopher Fox | |
J. M. Synge | P. J. Mathews | |
Tacitus | A. J. Woodman | |
Henry David Thoreau | Joel Myerson | |
Tolstoy | Donna Tussing Orwin | |
Anthony Trollope | Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles | |
Mark Twain | Forrest G. Robinson | |
John Updike | Stacey Olster | |
Mario Vargas Llosa | Efrain Kristal and John King | |
Virgil | Charles Martindale | |
Voltaire | Nicholas Cronk | |
Edith Wharton | Millicent Bell | |
Walt Whitman | Ezra Greenspan | |
Oscar Wilde | Peter Raby | |
Tennessee Williams | Matthew C. Roudané | |
August Wilson | Christopher Bigsby | |
Mary Wollstonecraft | Claudia L. Johnson | |
Virginia Woolf | Susan Sellers (second edition) | |
Wordsworth | Stephen Gill | |
W. B. Yeats | Marjorie Howes and John Kelly | |
Xenophon | Michael A. Flower | |
Zola | Brian Nelson | |
The Actress | Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes | |
The African American Novel | Maryemma Graham | |
The African American Slave Narrative | Audrey A. Fisch | |
Theatre History | David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski | |
African American Theatre | Harvey Young | |
Allegory | Rita Copeland and Peter Struck | |
American Crime Fiction | Catherine Ross Nickerson | |
American Modernism | Walter Kalaidjian | |
American Poetry Since 1945 | Jennifer Ashton | |
American Realism and Naturalism | Donald Pizer | |
American Travel Writing | Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera | |
American Women Playwrights | Brenda Murphy | |
Ancient Rhetoric | Erik Gunderson | |
Arthurian Legend | Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter | |
Australian Literature | Elizabeth Webby | |
British Literature of the French Revolution | Pamela Clemit | |
British Romanticism | Stuart Curran (second edition) | |
British Romantic Poetry | James Chandler and Maureen N. McLane | |
British Theatre, 1730–1830 | Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn | |
Canadian Literature | Eva-Marie Kröller | |
Children's Literature | M. O. Grenby and Andrea Immel | |
The Classic Russian Novel | Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller | |
Contemporary Irish Poetry | Matthew Campbell | |
Creative Writing | David Morley and Philip Neilsen | |
Crime Fiction | Martin Priestman | |
Early Modern Women's Writing | Laura Lunger Knoppers | |
The Eighteenth-Century Novel | John Richetti | |
Eighteenth-Century Poetry | John Sitter | |
Emma | Peter Sabor | |
English Literature, 1500–1600 | Arthur F. Kinney | |
English Literature, 1650–1740 | Steven N. Zwicker | |
English Literature, 1740–1830 | Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee | |
English Literature, 1830–1914 | Joanne Shattock | |
English Novelists | Adrian Poole | |
English Poetry, Donne to Marvell | Thomas N. Corns | |
English Poets | Claude Rawson | |
English Renaissance Drama | A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway (second edition) | |
English Renaissance Tragedy | Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. | |
English Restoration Theatre | Deborah C. Payne Fisk | |
The Epic | Catherine Bates | |
European Modernism | Pericles Lewis | |
European Novelists | Michael Bell | |
Fairy Tales | Maria Tatar | |
Fantasy Literature | Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn | |
Feminist Literary Theory | Ellen Rooney | |
Fiction in the Romantic Period | Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener | |
The Fin de Siècle | Gail Marshall | |
The French Enlightenment | Daniel Brewer | |
French Literature | John D. Lyons | |
The French Novel: From 1800 to the Present | Timothy Unwin | |
Gay and Lesbian Writing | Hugh Stevens | |
German Romanticism | Nicholas Saul | |
Gothic Fiction | Jerrold E. Hogle | |
The Graphic Novel | Stephen E. Tabachnick | |
The Greek and Roman Novel | Tim Whitmarsh | |
Greek and Roman Theatre | Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton | |
Greek Comedy | Martin Revermann | |
Greek Lyric | Felix Budelmann | |
Greek Mythology | Roger D. Woodard | |
Greek Tragedy | P. E. Easterling | |
The Harlem Renaissance | George Hutchinson | |
The History of the Book | Leslie Howsam | |
The Irish Novel | John Wilson Foster | |
The Italian Novel | Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli | |
The Italian Renaissance | Michael Wyatt | |
Jewish American Literature | Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer | |
The Latin American Novel | Efraín Kristal | |
The Literature of the First World War | Vincent Sherry | |
The Literature of London | Lawrence Manley | |
The Literature of Los Angeles | Kevin R. McNamara | |
The Literature of New York | Cyrus Patell and Bryan Waterman | |
The Literature of Paris | Anna-Louise Milne | |
The Literature of World War II | Marina MacKay | |
Literature on Screen | Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan | |
Medieval English Culture | Andrew Galloway | |
Medieval English Literature | Larry Scanlon | |
Medieval English Mysticism | Samuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie | |
Medieval English Theatre | Richard Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher (second edition) | |
Medieval French Literature | Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay | |
Medieval Romance | Roberta L. Krueger | |
Medieval Women's Writing | Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace | |
Modern American Culture | Christopher Bigsby | |
Modern British Women Playwrights | Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt | |
Modern French Culture | Nicholas Hewitt | |
Modern German Culture | Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will | |
The Modern German Novel | Graham Bartram | |
The Modern Gothic | Jerrold E. Hogle | |
Modern Irish Culture | Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly | |
Modern Italian Culture | Zygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca J. West | |
Modern Latin American Culture | John King | |
Modern Russian Culture | Nicholas Rzhevsky | |
Modern Spanish Culture | David T. Gies | |
Modernism | Michael Levenson (second edition) | |
The Modernist Novel | Morag Shiach | |
Modernist Poetry | Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins | |
Modernist Women Writers | Maren Tova Linett | |
Narrative | PubMed | |
Native American Literature | Joy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer | |
Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing | Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould | |
Old English Literature | Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge (second edition) | |
Performance Studies | Tracy C. Davis | |
Piers Plowman | Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway | |
Popular Fiction | David Glover and Scott McCracken | |
Postcolonial Literary Studies | Neil Lazarus | |
Postmodern American Fiction | Paula Geyh | |
Postmodernism | Steven Connor | |
The Pre-Raphaelites | Elizabeth Prettejohn | |
Pride and Prejudice | Janet Todd | |
Renaissance Humanism | Jill Kraye | |
The Roman Historians | Andrew Feldherr | |
Roman Satire | Kirk Freudenburg | |
Science fiction | Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn | |
Scottish Literature | Gerald Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney | |
Sensation Fiction | Andrew Mangham | |
The Sonnet | A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth | |
The Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present | Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez | |
Textual Scholarship | Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders | |
Travel Writing | Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs | |
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry | Jane Dowson | |
The Twentieth-Century English Novel | Robert L. Caserio | |
Twentieth-Century English Poetry | Neil Corcoran | |
Twentieth-Century Irish Drama | Shaun Richards | |
Twentieth-Century Russian Literature | Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko | |
Utopian Literature | Gregory Claeys | |
Victorian and Edwardian Theatre | Kerry Powell | |
The Victorian Novel | Deirdre David (second edition) | |
Victorian Poetry | Joseph Bristow | |
Victorian Women's Writing | Linda H. Peterson | |
War Writing | Kate McLoughlin | |
Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 | Catherine Ingrassia | |
Women's Writing in the Romantic Period | Devoney Looser | |
Writing of the English Revolution | N. H. Keeble |
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