List of Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics explained

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.

Volumes (sortable table)

The Cambridge Companion...
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Sherlock HolmesJanice M. Allan, Christopher Pittard2019
Roman ComedyMartin T. Dinter2019
Edward AlbeeStephen J. Bottoms
Margaret AtwoodCoral Ann Howells
W. H. AudenStan Smith
Jane AustenEdward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (second edition)
James BaldwinMichele Elam2015
BeckettJohn Pilling
BedeScott DeGregorio
Aphra BehnDerek Hughes and Janet Todd
Walter BenjaminDavid S. Ferris
William BlakeMorris Eaves
BoccaccioGuyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner
Jorge Luis BorgesEdwin Williamson
BrechtPeter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (second edition)
The BrontësHeather Glen
BunyanAnne Dunan-Page
Frances BurneyPeter Sabor
ByronDrummond Bone
Albert CamusEdward J. Hughes
Willa CatherMarilee Lindemann
Miguel de CervantesAnthony J. Cascardi
ChaucerPiero Boitani and Jill Mann (second edition)
ChekhovVera Gottlieb and Paul Allain
Kate ChopinJanet Beer
Caryl ChurchillElaine Aston and Elin Diamond
CiceroCatherine Steel
ColeridgeLucy Newlyn
Wilkie CollinsJenny Bourne Taylor
Joseph ConradJ. H. Stape
H. D.Nephie J. Christodoulides and Polina Mackay
DanteRachel Jacoff (second edition)
Daniel DefoeJohn Richetti
Don DeLilloJohn N. Duvall
Charles DickensJohn O. Jordan
Emily DickinsonWendy Martin
John DonneAchsah Guibbory
DostoevskiiW. J. Leatherbarrow
Theodore DreiserLeonard Cassuto and Claire Virginia Eby
John DrydenSteven N. Zwicker
W. E. B. Du BoisShamoon Zamir
George EliotGeorge Levine
T. S. EliotA. David Moody
Ralph EllisonRoss Posnock
Ralph Waldo EmersonJoel Porte and Saundra Morris
William FaulknerPhilip M. Weinstein
Henry FieldingClaude Rawson
F. Scott FitzgeraldRuth Prigozy
FlaubertTimothy Unwin
E. M. ForsterDavid Bradshaw
Benjamin FranklinCarla Mulford
Brian FrielAnthony Roche
Robert FrostRobert Faggen
Gabriel García MárquezPhilip Swanson
Elizabeth GaskellJill L. Matus
GoetheLesley Sharpe
Günter GrassStuart Taberner
Thomas HardyDale Kramer
David HareRichard Boon
Nathaniel HawthorneRichard Millington
Seamus HeaneyBernard O'Donoghue
Ernest HemingwayScott Donaldson
HomerRobert Fowler
HoraceStephen Harrison
Ted HughesTerry Gifford
IbsenJames McFarlane
Henry JamesJonathan Freedman
Samuel JohnsonGreg Clingham
Ben JonsonRichard Harp and Stanley Stewart
James JoyceDerek Attridge (second edition)
KafkaJulian Preece
KeatsSusan J. Wolfson
Rudyard KiplingHoward J. Booth
LacanJean-Michel Rabaté
D. H. LawrenceAnne Fernihough
Primo LeviRobert Gordon
LucretiusStuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie
MachiavelliJohn M. Najemy
David MametChristopher Bigsby
Thomas MannRitchie Robertson
Christopher MarlowePatrick Cheney
Andrew MarvellDerek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker
Herman MelvilleRobert S. Levine
Arthur MillerChristopher Bigsby (second edition)
MiltonDennis Danielson (second edition)
MolièreDavid Bradby and Andrew Calder
Toni MorrisonJustine Tally
Alice MunroDavid Staines
NabokovJulian W. Connolly
Eugene O'NeillMichael Manheim
George OrwellJohn Rodden
OvidPhilip Hardie
PetrarchAlbert Russell Ascoli and Unn Falkeid
Harold PinterPeter Raby (second edition)
Sylvia PlathJo Gill
Edgar Allan PoeKevin J. Hayes
Alexander PopePat Rogers
Ezra PoundIra B. Nadel
ProustRichard Bales
PushkinAndrew Kahn
RabelaisJohn O'Brien
RilkeKaren Leeder and Robert Vilain
Philip RothTimothy Parrish
Salman RushdieAbdulrazak Gurnah
John RuskinFrancis O'Gorman
ShakespeareMargareta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (second edition)
Shakespearean ComedyAlexander Leggatt
Shakespeare and Contemporary DramatistsTon Hoenselaars
Shakespeare and Popular CultureRobert Shaughnessy
Shakespearean TragedyClaire McEachern (second edition)
Shakespeare on FilmRussell Jackson (second edition)
Shakespeare on StageStanley Wells and Sarah Stanton
Shakespeare's History PlaysMichael Hattaway
Shakespeare's Last PlaysCatherine M. S. Alexander
Shakespeare's PoetryPatrick Cheney
George Bernard ShawChristopher Innes
Percy Bysshe ShelleyTimothy Morton
Mary ShelleyEsther Schor
Sam ShepardMatthew C. Roudané
SpenserAndrew Hadfield
Laurence SterneThomas Keymer
Wallace StevensJohn N. Serio
Tom StoppardKatherine E. Kelly
Harriet Beecher StoweCindy Weinstein
August StrindbergMichael Robinson
Jonathan SwiftChristopher Fox
J. M. SyngeP. J. Mathews
TacitusA. J. Woodman
Henry David ThoreauJoel Myerson
TolstoyDonna Tussing Orwin
Anthony TrollopeCarolyn Dever and Lisa Niles
Mark TwainForrest G. Robinson
John UpdikeStacey Olster
Mario Vargas LlosaEfrain Kristal and John King
VirgilCharles Martindale
VoltaireNicholas Cronk
Edith WhartonMillicent Bell
Walt WhitmanEzra Greenspan
Oscar WildePeter Raby
Tennessee WilliamsMatthew C. Roudané
August WilsonChristopher Bigsby
Mary WollstonecraftClaudia L. Johnson
Virginia WoolfSusan Sellers (second edition)
WordsworthStephen Gill
W. B. YeatsMarjorie Howes and John Kelly
XenophonMichael A. Flower
ZolaBrian Nelson
The ActressMaggie B. Gale and John Stokes
The African American NovelMaryemma Graham
The African American Slave NarrativeAudrey A. Fisch
Theatre HistoryDavid Wiles and Christine Dymkowski
African American TheatreHarvey Young
AllegoryRita Copeland and Peter Struck
American Crime FictionCatherine Ross Nickerson
American ModernismWalter Kalaidjian
American Poetry Since 1945Jennifer Ashton
American Realism and NaturalismDonald Pizer
American Travel WritingAlfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera
American Women PlaywrightsBrenda Murphy
Ancient RhetoricErik Gunderson
Arthurian LegendElizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter
Australian LiteratureElizabeth Webby
British Literature of the French RevolutionPamela Clemit
British RomanticismStuart Curran (second edition)
British Romantic PoetryJames Chandler and Maureen N. McLane
British Theatre, 1730–1830Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn
Canadian LiteratureEva-Marie Kröller
Children's LiteratureM. O. Grenby and Andrea Immel
The Classic Russian NovelMalcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller
Contemporary Irish PoetryMatthew Campbell
Creative WritingDavid Morley and Philip Neilsen
Crime FictionMartin Priestman
Early Modern Women's WritingLaura Lunger Knoppers
The Eighteenth-Century NovelJohn Richetti
Eighteenth-Century PoetryJohn Sitter
EmmaPeter Sabor
English Literature, 1500–1600Arthur F. Kinney
English Literature, 1650–1740Steven N. Zwicker
English Literature, 1740–1830Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee
English Literature, 1830–1914Joanne Shattock
English NovelistsAdrian Poole
English Poetry, Donne to MarvellThomas N. Corns
English PoetsClaude Rawson
English Renaissance DramaA. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway (second edition)
English Renaissance TragedyEmma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr.
English Restoration TheatreDeborah C. Payne Fisk
The EpicCatherine Bates
European ModernismPericles Lewis
European NovelistsMichael Bell
Fairy TalesMaria Tatar
Fantasy LiteratureEdward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Feminist Literary TheoryEllen Rooney
Fiction in the Romantic PeriodRichard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener
The Fin de SiècleGail Marshall
The French EnlightenmentDaniel Brewer
French LiteratureJohn D. Lyons
Timothy Unwin
Gay and Lesbian WritingHugh Stevens
German RomanticismNicholas Saul
Gothic FictionJerrold E. Hogle
The Graphic NovelStephen E. Tabachnick
The Greek and Roman NovelTim Whitmarsh
Greek and Roman TheatreMarianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton
Greek ComedyMartin Revermann
Greek LyricFelix Budelmann
Greek MythologyRoger D. Woodard
Greek TragedyP. E. Easterling
The Harlem RenaissanceGeorge Hutchinson
The History of the BookLeslie Howsam
The Irish NovelJohn Wilson Foster
The Italian NovelPeter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli
The Italian RenaissanceMichael Wyatt
Jewish American LiteratureHana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer
The Latin American NovelEfraín Kristal
The Literature of the First World WarVincent Sherry
The Literature of LondonLawrence Manley
The Literature of Los AngelesKevin R. McNamara
The Literature of New YorkCyrus Patell and Bryan Waterman
The Literature of ParisAnna-Louise Milne
The Literature of World War IIMarina MacKay
Literature on ScreenDeborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan
Medieval English CultureAndrew Galloway
Medieval English LiteratureLarry Scanlon
Medieval English MysticismSamuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie
Medieval English TheatreRichard Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher (second edition)
Medieval French LiteratureSimon Gaunt and Sarah Kay
Medieval RomanceRoberta L. Krueger
Medieval Women's WritingCarolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace
Modern American CultureChristopher Bigsby
Modern British Women PlaywrightsElaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt
Modern French CultureNicholas Hewitt
Modern German CultureEva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will
The Modern German NovelGraham Bartram
The Modern GothicJerrold E. Hogle
Modern Irish CultureJoe Cleary and Claire Connolly
Modern Italian CultureZygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca J. West
Modern Latin American CultureJohn King
Modern Russian CultureNicholas Rzhevsky
Modern Spanish CultureDavid T. Gies
ModernismMichael Levenson (second edition)
The Modernist NovelMorag Shiach
Modernist PoetryAlex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins
Modernist Women WritersMaren Tova Linett
NarrativeDavid Herman PubMed
Native American LiteratureJoy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer
Nineteenth-Century American Women's WritingDale M. Bauer and Philip Gould
Old English LiteratureMalcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge (second edition)
Performance StudiesTracy C. Davis
Piers PlowmanAndrew Cole and Andrew Galloway
Popular FictionDavid Glover and Scott McCracken
Postcolonial Literary StudiesNeil Lazarus
Postmodern American FictionPaula Geyh
PostmodernismSteven Connor
The Pre-RaphaelitesElizabeth Prettejohn
Pride and PrejudiceJanet Todd
Renaissance HumanismJill Kraye
The Roman HistoriansAndrew Feldherr
Roman SatireKirk Freudenburg
Science fictionEdward James and Farah Mendlesohn
Scottish LiteratureGerald Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney
Sensation FictionAndrew Mangham
The SonnetA. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth
Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez
Textual ScholarshipNeil Fraistat and Julia Flanders
Travel WritingPeter Hulme and Tim Youngs
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's PoetryJane Dowson
The Twentieth-Century English NovelRobert L. Caserio
Twentieth-Century English PoetryNeil Corcoran
Twentieth-Century Irish DramaShaun Richards
Twentieth-Century Russian LiteratureMarina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko
Utopian LiteratureGregory Claeys
Victorian and Edwardian TheatreKerry Powell
The Victorian NovelDeirdre David (second edition)
Victorian PoetryJoseph Bristow
Victorian Women's WritingLinda H. Peterson
War WritingKate McLoughlin
Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789Catherine Ingrassia
Women's Writing in the Romantic PeriodDevoney Looser
Writing of the English RevolutionN. H. Keeble

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