List of Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
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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
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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
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| Giovanni Boccaccio
| Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner | |
| Jorge Luis Borges
| Edwin Williamson | |
| Bertolt Brecht
| Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (second edition) | |
| The Brontës
| Heather Glen | |
| John Bunyan
| Anne Dunan-Page | |
| Frances Burney
| Peter Sabor | |
| Byron
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| Albert Camus
| Edward J. Hughes | |
| Willa Cather
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| Miguel de Cervantes
| Anthony J. Cascardi | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer
| Piero Boitani and Jill Mann (second edition) | |
| Anton Chekhov
| Vera Gottlieb and Paul Allain | |
| Kate Chopin
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| Caryl Churchill
| Elaine Aston and Elin Diamond | |
| Cicero
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| Wilkie Collins
| Jenny Bourne Taylor | |
| Joseph Conrad
| J. H. Stape | |
| H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
| Nephie J. Christodoulides and Polina Mackay | |
| Dante Alighieri
| Rachel Jacoff (second edition) | |
| Daniel Defoe
| John Richetti | |
| Don DeLillo
| John N. Duvall | |
| Charles Dickens
| John O. Jordan | |
| Emily Dickinson
| Wendy Martin | |
| John Donne
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| Fyodor Dostoevsky
| W. J. Leatherbarrow | |
| Theodore Dreiser
| Leonard Cassuto and Claire Virginia Eby | |
| John Dryden
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| W. E. B. Du Bois
| Shamoon Zamir | |
| George Eliot
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| 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 | |
| Gustave 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 | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
| Lesley Sharpe | |
| Günter Grass
| Stuart Taberner | |
| Thomas Hardy
| Dale Kramer | |
| David Hare
| Richard Boon | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne
| Richard Millington | |
| Seamus Heaney
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| Ernest Hemingway
| Scott Donaldson | |
| Homer
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| Horace
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| Ted Hughes
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| Henrik Ibsen
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| Henry James
| Jonathan Freedman | |
| Samuel Johnson
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| Ben Jonson
| Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart | |
| James Joyce
| Derek Attridge (second edition) | |
| Franz Kafka
| Julian Preece | |
| John Keats
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| Rudyard Kipling
| Howard J. Booth | |
| Jacques Lacan
| Jean-Michel Rabaté | |
| D. H. Lawrence
| Anne Fernihough | |
| Primo Levi
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| Lucretius
| Stuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie | |
| Niccolò Machiavelli
| John M. Najemy | |
| David Mamet
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| Thomas Mann
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| Christopher Marlowe
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| Andrew Marvell
| Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker | |
| Herman Melville
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| Arthur Miller
| Christopher Bigsby (second edition) | |
| Milton
| Dennis Danielson (second edition) | |
| Molière
| David Bradby and Andrew Calder | |
| Toni Morrison
| Justine Tally | |
| Alice Munro
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| Vladimir Nabokov
| Julian W. Connolly | |
| Eugene O'Neill
| Michael Manheim | |
| George Orwell
| John Rodden | |
| Ovid
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| 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
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| Marcel Proust
| Richard Bales | |
| Alexander Pushkin
| Andrew Kahn | |
| François Rabelais
| John O'Brien | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke
| Karen Leeder and Robert Vilain | |
| Philip Roth
| Timothy Parrish | |
| Salman Rushdie
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| John Ruskin
| Francis O'Gorman | |
| William 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 | |
| Edmund 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 | |
| Leo Tolstoy
| Donna Tussing Orwin | |
| Anthony Trollope
| Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles | |
| Mark Twain
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| 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) | |
| William 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
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| 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
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| Narrative
| David Herman | |
| 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 | |
External links
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