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COMPANIONS TO

NINETEENTH ANDTWENTIETH

CENTURY WRITING

2005

Cambridge University Press is the printing and publishing house of the University of Cambridge, and isthe oldest press in the world. It is a charitable enterprise required by University Statute to devote itselfto printing and publishing in the furtherance of the acquisition, advancement, conservation, anddissemination of knowledge in all subjects; to the advancement of education, religion, learning, andresearch; and to the advancement of literature and good letters.

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www.cambridge.org/literatureThis catalogue contains a selection of our mostrecent publishing in this area. Please visit ourwebsite for a full and searchable listing of all ourtitles in print and also an extensive range of news,features and resources. Our online ordering serviceis secure and easy to use.

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ContentsGeneral 2British Writers 5Irish Writers 7European Writers 8American Writers 11

Cambridge Companions to Literatureprovide students and other readers withstimulating introductions to particularauthors, genres, and periods in the history ofliterature and drama. All CambridgeCompanions to Literature feature newlycommissioned essays by international teamsof experts, extensive breadth and depth ofcoverage, a wide range of criticalapproaches, biographical material, achronological table, a bibliography, a guideto further reading, and an index.

This leaflet contains all Companionsconcerned with nineteenth and twentiethcentury writing.

All writers are listed alphabetically bysurname within each section.

General

FORTHCOMING

The CambridgeCompanion to theLatin American NovelEdited by Efrain KristalUniversity of California, Los Angeles

The diverse countries of Latin Americahave produced a lively and ever evolvingtradition of novels, many of which areread in translation all over the world.The essays collected here offer severalentryways into the understanding andappreciation of the Latin American novelin Spanish-speaking America and Brazil.Contents: Introduction Efraín Kristal; Part I.History: 1. The nineteenth-century LatinAmerican novel Naomi Lindstrom; 2. Theregional novel and beyond Brian Gollnick;3. The boom of the Latin American novelJohn King; 4. The post-boom novel PhilipSwanson; Part II. Heterogeneity: 5. TheBrazilian novel Piers Armstrong; 6. TheCaribbean novel William Luis; 7. TheAndean novel Ismael Marquez; 8. TheCentral American novel Roy Boland; Part III.Gender and Sexuality: 9. Gender studiesCatherine Davies; 10. The lesbian and gaynovel in Latin America Daniel Balderstonand José Maristany; Part IV. Six Novels: 11.Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis MartaPeixoto; 12. Pedro Páramo by Juan RulfoJason Wilson; 13. The Passion according toD. H. by Clarice Lispector Claire Williams;14. One Hundred Years of Solitude byGabriel García Márquez Steven Boldy;15. The House of the Spirits by IsabelAllende Stephen Hart; 16. The War of theEnd of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaMichelle Clayton; Part V. Epilogue: 17. TheLatin American novel in English translationSuzanne Jill Levine; Bibliography KellyAustin and Ryan Kernan.

2005 228 x 152 mm 320pp0 521 82533 4 Hardback c. £45.000 521 53219 1 Paperback c. £16.99Publication June 2005

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The CambridgeCompanion to theLiterature of the FirstWorld WarEdited by Vincent SherryTulane University, Louisiana

The volume comprises original essays bydistinguished scholars of internationalreputation, who examine the impact ofthe war on various national literatures,before addressing the way the waraffected Modernism, the Europeanavant-garde, film, women’s writing,memoirs, and of course the war poets.Contents: Introduction Vincent Sherry; PartI. The Great War in British Literary Culture:1. British war memoirs Paul Edwards; 2. TheBritish novel and the war David Trotter;3. The Great War, history, and the Englishlyric Edna Longley; 4. British women’swriting of the Great War Claire Buck; 5. TheGreat War and literary modernism inEngland Vincent Sherry; Part II. The WorldWar: Pan-European Views, Trans-AtlanticProspects: 6. The Great War and theEuropean avant-garde Marjorie Perloff;7. French writing of the Great WarCatharine Savage Brosman; 8. The GreatWar and modern German memory StanleyCorngold; 9. American writing of the GreatWar John T. Matthews; Part III. PostwarEngagements: 10. Myths, memories, andmonuments: re-imagining the Great WarSharon Ouditt; 11. Interpreting the warJames Campbell; 12. The Great War intwentieth-century cinema Laura Marcus.

2005 228 x 152 mm 344pp 17 half-tones0 521 82145 2 Hardback £45.000 521 52897 6 Paperback £16.99

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The CambridgeCompanion toPostcolonial LiteraryStudiesEdited by Neil LazarusUniversity of Warwick

This Companion offers a lucidintroduction and overview of one of themost important strands in recent literarytheory and cultural studies.

2004 228 x 152 mm 350pp0 521 82694 2 Hardback £45.000 521 53418 6 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion toPostmodernismEdited by Steven ConnorBirkbeck College, University of London

This Companion provides examinationsof the different aspects of postmodernistthought and culture that have had asignificant effect on contemporary criticalthought.

2004 228 x 152 mm 254pp0 521 64052 0 Hardback £45.000 521 64840 8 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion toCanadian LiteratureEdited by Eva-Marie KröllerUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver

This lively introduction to major writers,genres and topics in Canadian literaturepays attention to the social, politicaland economic developments that haveinformed literary events.

2004 228 x 152 mm 324pp 6 half-tones2 maps0 521 81441 3 Hardback £45.000 521 89131 0 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion toVictorian and EdwardianTheatreEdited by Kerry Powell

2004 228 x 152 mm 308pp 14 half-tones1 music example0 521 79157 X Hardback £45.000 521 79536 2 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion tothe Victorian NovelEdited by Deirdre David

2000 228 x 152 mm 288pp0 521 64150 0 Hardback £48.000 521 64619 7 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion toVictorian PoetryEdited by Joseph Bristow

2000 228 x 152 mm 353pp0 521 64115 2 Hardback £45.000 521 64680 4 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion toGothic FictionEdited by Jerrold E. Hogle

2002 228 x 152 mm 354pp0 521 79124 3 Hardback £45.000 521 79466 8 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion tothe French NovelFrom 1800 to the PresentEdited by Timothy Unwin

1997 228 x 152 mm 305pp0 521 49563 6 Hardback £50.000 521 49914 3 Paperback £17.99

The Cambridge Companion tothe Classic Russian NovelEdited by Malcolm V. Jonesand Robin Feuer Miller

1998 228 x 152 mm 338pp0 521 47346 2 Hardback £55.000 521 47909 6 Paperback £18.99

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The CambridgeCompanion to Crime FictionEdited by Martin PriestmanUniversity of Surrey

Covers British and American crime fictionfrom the eighteenth century to the endof the twentieth.

2003 228 x 152 mm 308pp0 521 80399 3 Hardback £45.000 521 00871 9 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion to Science FictionEdited by Edward JamesUniversity College Dublin

and Farah MendlesohnMiddlesex University, London

‘The volume is a major achievement.There’s no other book like it on themarket, and it will surely become thefirst point of reference for studentscoming to the study of SF.’Alien Online

2003 228 x 152 mm 326pp0 521 81626 2 Hardback £45.000 521 01657 6 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion to Travel WritingEdited by Peter HulmeUniversity of Essex

and Tim YoungsNottingham Trent University

‘ ... this Companion shows how far wehave come in understanding theliterature of knowledge, and in definingits relation to one kind of power.’Times Literary Supplement

2002 228 x 152 mm 356pp 14 half-tones0 521 78140 X Hardback £45.000 521 78652 5 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion toAmerican Women PlaywrightsEdited by Brenda Murphy

1999 228 x 152 mm 324pp 9 half-tones1 table0 521 57680 6 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion toModern British WomenPlaywrightsEdited by Elaine Astonand Janelle Reinelt

2000 228 x 152 mm 296pp 9 half-tones0 521 59422 7 Hardback £45.000 521 59533 9 Paperback £16.99

The Cambridge Companion toNineteenth-Century AmericanWomen’s WritingEdited by Dale M. Bauerand Philip Gould

2001 228 x 152 mm 366pp 3 half-tones0 521 66003 3 Hardback £45.000 521 66975 8 Paperback £16.99

British Writers

NEW

The CambridgeCompanion to W.H. AudenEdited by Stan SmithNottingham Trent University

This volume brings together speciallycommissioned essays by some of theworld’s leading experts on the life andwork of W. H. Auden. The volume’scontributors include a prize-winningpoet, Auden’s literary executor andeditor, and his most recent, widelyacclaimed biographer.Contents: Chronology; 1. Introduction StanSmith; 2. Auden’s life and character RichardDavenport-Hines; 3. Auden’s EnglandPatrick Deane; 4. Auden in AmericaNicholas Jenkins; 5. The European AudenEdward Mendelson; 6. Auden’s travel

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writings Tim Youngs; 7. Auden’s plays anddramatic writings: theatre, film and operaChristopher Innes; 8. Auden’s light andserio-comic verse Stan Smith; 9. Auden’sprose A. E. Sharpe; 10. Auden’s English:language and style Peter Porter; 11. Audenand modern theory John R. Boly;12. Auden’s politics: power, authority andthe individual John Lucas; 13. Auden,psychology and society Rod Mengham;14. Auden: love, sexuality, desire Richard R.Bozorth; 15. Auden and religion GarethReeves; 16. Auden’s landscapes PaolaMarchetti; 17. Auden and ecology RainerEmig; 18. Auden and influence Ian Sansom;19. Bibliographic essay and review of Audenstudies Nadia Herman Colburn.

2005 228 x 152 mm 285pp0 521 82962 3 Hardback £45.000 521 53647 2 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to Jane AustenEdited by Edward CopelandPomona College, California

and Juliet McMasterUniversity of Alberta

‘A book of new and recent essays byacademics, it is informative rather thanopinionated, and provides astimulating digest of ideas andinformation about Austen.’Literary Review

1997 228 x 152 mm 267pp 2 figures0 521 49517 2 Hardback £45.000 521 49867 8 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to William BlakeEdited by Morris EavesUniversity of Rochester, New York

‘Like other volumes in the CambridgeCompanions to Literature series, thiscollection of essays is designed to be

useful for a broad academic audience.It maintains the normally highstandards of editing, writing, andscholarship that characterize the series.’T. Hoagwood, Texas A&M University

2003 228 x 152 mm 326pp 36 half-tones0 521 78147 7 Hardback £45.000 521 78677 0 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to the BrontësEdited by Heather GlenUniversity of Cambridge

‘The essays stimulate and provoke,they are well-structured, well-arguedand insightful.’Reference Reviews

2002 228 x 152 mm 270pp 10 half-tones0 521 77027 0 Hardback £45.000 521 77971 5 Paperback £15.99

NEW

The CambridgeCompanion to ByronEdited by Drummond BoneUniversity of Liverpool

In three sections devoted to thehistorical, textual and literary contexts ofByron’s life and times, these speciallycommissioned essays by a range ofeminent Byron scholars provide acompelling picture of the diversity ofByron’s writings.

2004 228 x 152 mm 330pp0 521 78146 9 Hardback £45.000 521 78676 2 Paperback £15.99

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The CambridgeCompanion toColeridgeEdited by Lucy NewlynUniversity of Oxford

Addresses the many facets ofColeridge’s life and work.

2002 228 x 152 mm 284pp0 521 65071 2 Hardback £45.000 521 65909 4 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to Charles DickensEdited by John O. JordanUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

‘No doubting its success.’Times Literary Supplement

2001 228 x 152 mm 258pp 15 half-tones0 521 66016 5 Hardback £45.000 521 66964 2 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to George EliotEdited by George LevineRutgers University, New Jersey

‘Whenever I work on Eliot I shall turnto this Companion and so willeverybody else ... Levine’s Companionwill be indispensable to George Eliotenthusiasts.’Australian Victorian Studies Journal

2001 228 x 152 mm 266pp0 521 66267 2 Hardback £45.000 521 66473 X Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toThomas HardyEdited by Dale Kramer

1999 228 x 152 mm 258pp0 521 56202 3 Hardback £45.000 521 56692 4 Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toKeatsEdited by Susan J. Wolfson

2001 228 x 152 mm 316pp 1 half-tone0 521 65126 3 Hardback £45.000 521 65839 X Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to D. H. LawrenceEdited by Anne FernihoughGirton College, Cambridge

‘The excellent Companion certainlytestifies to Lawrence’smultifariousness, managing to dojustice to a substantial amount of hisachievement; to survey his criticallegacy; and to add valuable newapproaches to it.’Times Literary Supplement

2001 228 x 152 mm 312pp0 521 62339 1 Hardback £45.000 521 62617 X Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion to Harold PinterEdited by Peter RabyHomerton College, Cambridge

2001 228 x 152 mm 292pp 10 half-tones0 521 65123 9 Hardback £48.000 521 65842 X Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toMary ShelleyEdited by Esther Schor

2003 228 x 152 mm 314pp 14 half-tones0 521 80984 3 Hardback £45.000 521 00770 4 Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toTom StoppardEdited by Katherine E. Kelly

2001 228 x 152 mm 260pp 10 half-tones0 521 64178 0 Hardback £48.000 521 64592 1 Paperback £15.99

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The CambridgeCompanion toWordsworthEdited by Stephen GillLincoln College, Oxford

‘Altogether this new collection makes avaluable contribution to our under-standing of the poet and his world.’Contemporary Review

2003 228 x 152 mm 320pp0 521 64116 0 Hardback £45.000 521 64681 2 Paperback £15.99

Irish Writers

The CambridgeCompanion to BeckettEdited by John PillingUniversity of Reading

1994 228 x 152 mm 273pp 2 half-tones2 tables0 521 41366 4 Hardback £35.000 521 42413 5 Paperback £15.99

NEW EDITION

The CambridgeCompanion to James JoyceSecond editionEdited by Derek AttridgeUniversity of York

‘These essays offer introductions tonumerous ways of locating Joyce in thewider world of theory and ideas, andare useful springboards back into theworks themselves ... reading addinganother layer to our understanding ofthe man and the work.’The Irish Times

2004 228 x 152 mm 312pp0 521 83710 3 Hardback £45.000 521 54553 6 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion toTwentieth-CenturyIrish DramaEdited by Shaun RichardsStaffordshire University

A team of international experts fromIreland, the UK, the USA and Europeprovide individual studies ofinternationally known playwrights of theperiod of the Literary Revival in additionto emerging playwrights such as MartinMcDonagh and Marina Carr.

2004 228 x 152 mm 304pp0 521 80400 0 Hardback £45.000 521 00873 5 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion toContemporary IrishPoetryEdited by Matthew CampbellUniversity of Sheffield

This book provides a unique introductionto major figures such as Seamus Heaney,and also introduces the reader tosignificant precursors like LouisMacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vitalcontemporaries and successors.‘... for those of us teaching Irish poetrywho have wished for a collection ofessays that introduces students to themajor themes of the twentieth centuryas we understand them today, thisCompanion will not disappoint.’Irish Studies

2003 228 x 152 mm 314pp0 521 81301 8 Hardback £45.000 521 01245 7 Paperback £16.99

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The CambridgeCompanion to OscarWildeEdited by Peter RabyHomerton College, Cambridge

The essential guide to one of thetheatre’s most important characters,with an opening essay by MerlinHolland, Oscar Wilde’s grandson.

1997 228 x 152 mm 331pp 20 half-tones0 521 47471 X Hardback £55.000 521 47987 8 Paperback £15.99

EuropeanWriters

The CambridgeCompanion to LacanEdited by Jean-Michel RabatéUniversity of Pennsylvania

2003 228 x 152 mm 318pp0 521 80744 1 Hardback £45.000 521 00203 6 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to Simone de BeauvoirEdited by Claudia CardUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison

‘The Cambridge Companion to Simonede Beauvoir achieves its goal ofproviding a comprehensive overview ofthe current state of Beauvoirscholarship in philosophy.’Philosophical Writings

2003 228 x 152 mm 360pp0 521 79096 4 Hardback £45.000 521 79429 3 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to ProustEdited by Richard BalesThe Queen’s University of Belfast

‘We are provided with a series ofclosely analysed descriptions, full ofallusive and alliterative phrases with amusic of their own.’Modern Language Review

2001 228 x 152 mm 266pp 2 half-tones0 521 66019 X Hardback £45.000 521 66961 8 Paperback £15.99

NEW

The CambridgeCompanion to Walter BenjaminEdited by David S. FerrisUniversity of Colorado, Boulder

The volume provides examinations ofthe different aspects of Benjamin’s workthat have had a significant effect oncontemporary critical and historicalthought.Cambridge Companions to Literature

2004 228 x 152 mm 264pp0 521 79329 7 Hardback £45.000 521 79724 1 Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toThomas MannEdited by Ritchie Robertson

2001 228 x 152 mm 282pp0 521 65310 X Hardback £45.000 521 65370 3 Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toKafkaEdited by Julian Preece

2002 228 x 152 mm 276pp0 521 66314 8 Hardback £45.000 521 66391 1 Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toGoetheEdited by Lesley Sharpe

2002 228 x 152 mm 294pp0 521 66211 7 Hardback £45.000 521 66560 4 Paperback £15.99

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NEW

The CambridgeCompanion to theModern German NovelEdited by Graham BartramUniversity of Lancaster

The Cambridge Companion to theModern German Novel provides a broadranging introduction to the major trendsin the development of the German novelfrom the 1890s to the present. Writtenby an international team of experts, itencompasses both modernist and realisttraditions, and also includes a look backto the roots of the modern novel in theBildungsroman of the late eighteenthand nineteenth centuries.

2004 228 x 152 mm 322pp0 521 48253 4 Hardback £45.000 521 48392 1 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion to theItalian NovelEdited by Peter BondanellaIndiana University

and Andrea CiccarelliIndiana University

‘The editors of this welcome volumeaddress themselves to an English-speaking public, specialist and non-specialist alike ... attractively producedaddition to the large series ofCambridge Companions ... usefulreference work, especially forundergraduate courses and for thegeneral reader.’Italian Studies

2003 228 x 152 mm 266pp0 521 66018 1 Hardback £45.000 521 66962 6 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion to TolstoyEdited by Donna Tussing OrwinUniversity of Toronto

‘Indispensable for all who teach orstudy Tolstoy.’Rusistika

2002 228 x 152 mm 288pp0 521 79271 1 Hardback £45.000 521 52000 2 Paperback £15.99

The CambridgeCompanion to theSpanish NovelFrom 1600 to the PresentEdited by Harriet TurnerUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln

and Adelaida López de MartínezUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln

2003 228 x 152 mm 344pp0 521 77127 7 Hardback £45.000 521 77815 8 Paperback £16.99

The CambridgeCompanion toDostoevskiiEdited by W. J. LeatherbarrowUniversity of Sheffield

‘This collection fully equals the earlierpublications in this widely respectedseries.’Contemporary Review

2002 228 x 152 mm 260pp0 521 65253 7 Hardback £45.000 521 65473 4 Paperback £15.99

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FORTHCOMING

The CambridgeCompanion toNabokovEdited by Julian W. ConnollyUniversity of Virginia

This volume offers a concise andinformative introduction into Nabokov’sfascinating creative world. Speciallycommissioned essays by distinguishedscholars illuminate numerous facets ofthe writer’s legacy, from his earlycontributions as a poet and short-storywriter to his dazzling achievements asone of the most original novelists of thetwentieth century. Topics receiving freshcoverage include Nabokov’s narrativestrategies, the evolution of his world-view, and his relationship to the literaryand cultural currents of his day.Contents: Chronology; Introduction: themany faces of Vladimir Nabokov Julian W.Connolly; Part I. Contexts: 1. Strongopinions and nerve points: Nabokov’s lifeand art Zoran Kuzmanovich; 2. Nabokov asstoryteller Brian Boyd; 3. Nabokov as aRussian writer Alexander Dolinin; 4. ‘Bysome sleight of land’: how Nabokovrewrote America Susan Elizabeth Sweeney;5. Nabokov and modernism John BurtFoster, Jr.; Part II. Works: 6. Nabokov aspoet Barry Scherr; 7. Nabokov’s short fictionPriscilla Meyer; 8. The major Russian novelsJulian W. Connolly; 9. From Sirin toNabokov: the transition to English NeilCornwell; 10. Nabokov’s biographicalimpulse: art of writing lives Galya Diment;11. The Lolita phenomenon from Paris toTehran Ellen Pifer; 12. Nabokov’s late fictionMichael Wood; Part III. Related Worlds:13. Nabokov and cinema Barbara Wyllie;14. Nabokov’s world view Leona Toker; Aguide to further reading.

2005 228 x 152 mm 280pp0 521 82957 7 Hardback c. £45.000 521 53643 X Paperback c. £15.99Publication June 2005

AmericanWriters

The CambridgeCompanion to theAfrican AmericanNovelEdited by Maryemma GrahamUniversity of Kansas

This Companion presents new essayscovering the one hundred and fifty yearhistory of the African American novel.Experts in the field from the US andEurope address some of the majorissues in the genre: passing, the Protestnovel, the Blues novel, and womanismamong others.

2004 228 x 152 mm 338pp 1 table0 521 81574 6 Hardback £45.000 521 01637 1 Paperback £16.99

FORTHCOMING

The CambridgeCompanion toAmerican ModernismEdited by Walter KalaidjianEmory University, Atlanta

The Cambridge Companion to AmericanModernism provides a comprehensiveand authoritative overview of Americanliterary modernism from 1890 to 1939.These original essays by twelvedistinguished scholars of internationalreputation offer critical overviews of themajor genres, literary culture, and socialcontexts that define the current state ofModern American literature and culturalstudies.Contents: Chronology; Introduction WalterKalaidjian; 1. Nationalism and the modernAmerican canon Mark Morrisson; Part I.Genre: 2. Modern American fiction Rita

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Barnard; 3. Modern American poetry CaryNelson; 4. Modern American drama StephenWatt; Part II. Culture: 5. Americanmodernism and the New NegroRenaissance Mark Sanders; 6. Jazz andAmerican modernism Jed Rasula; 7. Visualculture Michael North; 8. The avant-gardephase of American modernism MarjoriePerloff; Part III. Society: 9. Gender andsexuality Janet Lyon; 10. Regionalism andAmerican modernism John Duvall; 11. Socialrepresentations of American modernismPaula Rabinowitz; 12. Modern Americanliterary criticism Douglas Mao; Guide tofurther reading; Index.

2005 228 x 152 mm 346pp 14 half-tones0 521 82995 X Hardback c. £45.000 521 53680 4 Paperback c. £16.99Publication April 2005

FORTHCOMING

The CambridgeCompanion to Edward AlbeeEdited by Stephen BottomsUniversity of Glasgow

Edward Albee, perhaps best known forhis acclaimed and infamous 1960sdrama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,is one of America’s greatest livingplaywrights. This collection of newessays on Albee, which includescontributions from the leadingcommentators on Albee’s work, bringsfresh critical insights to bear byexploring the full scope of theplaywright’s career, from his 1959breakthrough with The Zoo Story to hismost recent Broadway success, TheGoat, or Who is Sylvia? (2002).Contents: Introduction: 1. The man whohad three lives Stephen J. Bottoms; 2. ‘Anew American playwright from whom muchis to be expected’: Albee’s Early One-ActPlays Philip C. Kolin; 3. Toward the marrow:

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? MatthewRoudane; 4. ‘Withered Age and StaleCustom’: marriage, diminution and sex inTiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, and Findingthe Sun John M. Clum; 5. Albee’s 3 1⁄2: ThePulitzer Plays Thomas P. Adler; 6. Albee’sThrenodies: Box-Mao-Box, All Over, TheLady from Dubuque, and Three Tall WomenBrenda Murphy; 7. Minding the play:thought and feeling in Albee’s ‘Hermetic’Works Gerry McCarthy; 8. Albee’s monsterchildren: adaptations and confrontationsStephen J. Bottoms; 9. ‘Better Alert thanNumb’: Albee since the eighties ChristopherBigsby; 10. Cascading action, audiencetaste, and dramatic paradox: Edward Albeestages Marriage Play Rakesh Solomon; 11.‘Playing the Cloud Circuit’: Edward Albee’svaudeville show Linda Ben Zvi; 12. Albee’sThe Goat: rethinking tragedy for the 21stcentury J. Ellen Gainor; 13. ‘Words; words... they’re such a pleasure’ (an afterword)Ruby Cohn; 14. Borrowed time: aninterview with Edward Albee Stephen J.Bottoms; Notes on further reading;Bibliography.

2005 228 x 152 mm 320pp 8 half-tones0 521 54233 2 Paperback c. £15.990 521 83455 4 Hardback c. £45.00Publication August 2005

The CambridgeCompanion to HarrietBeecher StoweEdited by Cindy WeinsteinCalifornia Institute of Technology

Fresh, accessible and engaging, this isthe most comprehensive introductionavailable to Stowe’s work.

2004 228 x 152 mm 268pp0 521 82592 X Hardback £45.000 521 53309 0 Paperback £15.99

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FORTHCOMING

The CambridgeCompanion to WillaCatherEdited by Marilee LindemannUniversity of Maryland

The Cambridge Companion to WillaCather offers thirteen original essays byleading scholars of a major Americanmodernist novelist. Willa Cather’sluminous prose is ‘easy’ to read yetsurprisingly difficult to understand. Theessays collected here are theoreticallyinformed but accessibly written andcover the full range of Cather’s career,including most of her twelve novels andseveral of her short stories.Contents: Chronology; Introduction MarileeLindemann; Part I. Contexts and CriticalIssues: 1. Willa Cather as progressive:politics and the writer Guy J. Reynolds;2. The Cather thesis: the American empire ofmigration Joseph R. Urgo; 3. Willa Cather’sAmerican modernism Richard H. Millington;4. Willa Cather and the geography ofJewishness Lisa Marcus; 5. Willa Cather andsexuality Jonathan Goldberg; 6. Willa Catherand the performing arts Janis P. Stout;7. Willa Cather and the comic sense of selfSusan J. Rosowski; 8. Cather and the shortstory Mark J. Madigan; 9. Willa Cather inthe country of the ill Sharon O’Brien; Part II.Studies of Major Works: 10. Rereading My Ántonia Anne Goldman; 11. Fictions ofpossession in The Professor’s House John N.Swift; 12. Catholic expansionism and thepolitics of depression in Death Comes forthe Archbishop Leona Sevick; 13. WillaCather and ‘The Old Story’: Sapphira andthe Slave Girl Ann Romines; Bibliography.

2005 228 x 152 mm 266pp 3 half-tones0 521 82110 X Hardback c. £45.000 521 52793 7 Paperback c. £15.99Publication May 2005

The CambridgeCompanion to EmilyDickinsonEdited by Wendy MartinClaremont Graduate School, California

‘These 11 essays give an excellentintroduction to the most perplexingquestions about the reclusive poet.’ABES - Annotated Bibliography of EnglishStudies

2002 228 x 152 mm 266pp0 521 80644 5 Hardback £45.000 521 00118 8 Paperback £15.99

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The CambridgeCompanion toTheodore DreiserEdited by Leonard CassutoFordham University, New York

and Clare Virginia EbyUniversity of Connecticut

The specially commissioned essayscollected in this volume are written by aleading team of scholars of Americanliterature and culture. They establish newparameters for both scholarly andclassroom discussion of Dreiser. ThisCompanion provides fresh perspectiveson the frequently read classics, SisterCarrie and An American Tragedy, as wellas on topics of perennial interest, suchas Dreiser’s representation of the cityand his prose style. The volumeinvestigates topics such as hisrepresentation of masculinity andfemininity, and his treatment of ethnicity.

2004 228 x 152 mm 258pp 3 half-tones0 521 81555 X Hardback £45.000 521 89465 4 Paperback £15.99

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The CambridgeCompanion to RalphEllisonEdited by Ross PosnockNew York University

Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novelInvisible Man is one of the mostimportant and controversial novels inthe American canon and remains widelyread and studied. This Companionprovides the most up-to-dateintroduction to this influential andsignificant novelist and critic and to hismasterpiece. It features newlycommissioned essays, a chronology anda guide to further reading.Contents: Chronology; Introduction:Ellison’s joking Ross Posnock; 1. RalphEllison’s invented life: a meeting withancestors Lawrence Jackson; 2. Ellison andthe black Church: the gospel according toRalph Laura Saunders; 3. Ellison,photography, and the origins of invisibilitySara Blair; 4. Ralph Ellison’s music lessonsPaul Allen Anderson; 5. Ralph Ellison’sconstitutional faith Gregg Crane; 6. RalphEllison and the politics of melancholia AnneAnlin Cheng; 7. Invisible Ellison: the fight tobe a negro leader Tim Parrish; 8. Ellison’sexperimental attitude and the technologiesof illumination John S. Wright; 9. Femaleiconography in The Invisible Man ShellyEversley; 10. Chaos not quite controlled:Ellison’s uncompleted transit to JuneteenthKenneth W. Warren; 11. Ralph Ellison,Hannah Arendt, and the meaning of politicsRoss Posnock; 12. Dry Bones Eric Sundquist;Select bibliography and suggestions forfurther reading.

2005 228 x 152 mm 282pp 3 half-tones0 521 82781 7 Hardback c. £45.000 521 53506 9 Paperback c. £15.99Publication May 2005

The Cambridge Companion toWilliam FaulknerEdited by Philip M. Weinstein

1995 228 x 152 mm 262pp0 521 42063 6 Hardback £40.000 521 42167 5 Paperback £15.99

The Cambridge Companion toF. Scott FitzgeraldEdited by Ruth Prigozy

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The Cambridge Companion toRobert FrostEdited by Robert FaggenCambridge Companions to Literature

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AAston, Elaine ........................................................4Attridge, Derek .....................................................7

BBales, Richard.......................................................8Bartram, Graham..................................................9Bauer, Dale M.......................................................4Bigsby, Christopher .............................................14Bondanella, Peter .................................................9Bone, Drummond..................................................5Bottoms, Stephen ...............................................11Bristow, Joseph.....................................................3

CCompanion to …American Modernism..........................................10American Women Playwrights...............................4Arthur Miller.......................................................14Beckett .................................................................7Byron ...................................................................5Canadian Literature ..............................................3Charles Dickens ....................................................6Coleridge..............................................................6Contemporary Irish Poetry.....................................7Crime Fiction ........................................................4D. H. Lawrence .....................................................6David Mamet......................................................14Dostoevskii ...........................................................9Edgar Allan Poe ..................................................14Edward Albee .....................................................11Emily Dickinson ..................................................12F. Scott Fitzgerald................................................13George Eliot .........................................................6Goethe .................................................................8Gothic Fiction .......................................................3Harold Pinter ........................................................6Harriet Beecher Stowe ........................................11Herman Melville .................................................14James Joyce..........................................................7Jane Austen..........................................................5Kafka ...................................................................8Keats....................................................................6Lacan ...................................................................8Mary Shelley.........................................................6Modern British Women Playwrights.......................4Nabokov.............................................................10Nathaniel Hawthorne .........................................13Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing ....4Oscar Wilde ..........................................................8Postcolonial Literary Studies..................................3Postmodernism.....................................................3Proust ..................................................................8Ralph Ellison ......................................................13Robert Frost........................................................13Sam Shepard ......................................................14

Science Fiction......................................................4Simone de Beauvoir..............................................8Tennessee Williams.............................................14African American Novel ......................................10the Brontës...........................................................5the Classic Russian Novel .....................................3the French Novel ..................................................3the Italian Novel...................................................9the Latin American Novel......................................2the Literature of the First World War .....................2the Modern German Novel ...................................9the Spanish Novel.................................................9the Victorian Novel ...............................................3Theodore Dreiser ................................................12Thomas Hardy ......................................................6Thomas Mann ......................................................8Tolstoy .................................................................9Tom Stoppard.......................................................6Travel Writing .......................................................4Twentieth-Century Irish Drama..............................7Victorian and Edwardian Theatre...........................3Victorian Poetry ....................................................3W. H. Auden .........................................................4Walter Benjamin...................................................8Willa Cather .......................................................12William Blake .......................................................5William Faulkner.................................................13Wordsworth .........................................................7

Campbell, Matthew ..............................................7Card, Claudia .......................................................8Cassuto, Leonard ................................................12Ciccarelli, Andrea..................................................9Connolly, Julian W...............................................10Connor, Steven .....................................................3Copeland, Edward ................................................5

DDavid, Deirdre ......................................................3

EEaves, Morris ........................................................5Eby, Clare Virginia...............................................12

FFaggen, Robert ...................................................13Fernihough, Anne .................................................6Ferris, David S. ......................................................8

GGill, Stephen.........................................................7Glen, Heather .......................................................5Gould, Philip.........................................................4Graham, Maryemma ...........................................10

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HHayes, Kevin J. ....................................................14Hogle, Jerrold E. ...................................................3Hulme, Peter.........................................................4

JJames, Edward......................................................4Jones, Malcolm V. .................................................3Jordan, John O......................................................6

KKalaidjian, Walter ...............................................10Kelly, Katherine E..................................................6Kramer, Dale.........................................................6Kristal, Efrain ........................................................2Kröller, Eva-Marie .................................................3

LLazarus, Neil.........................................................3Leatherbarrow, W. J. .............................................9Levine, George......................................................6Levine, Robert S. .................................................14Lindemann, Marilee ............................................12López de Martínez, Adelaida.................................9

MMartin, Wendy....................................................12McMaster, Juliet ...................................................5Mendlesohn, Farah ...............................................4Miller, Robin Feuer................................................3Millington, Richard H. .........................................13Murphy, Brenda....................................................4

NNewlyn, Lucy ........................................................6

OOrwin, Donna Tussing ...........................................9

PPilling, John..........................................................7Posnock, Ross.....................................................13Powell, Kerry.........................................................3Preece, Julian........................................................8Priestman, Martin .................................................4Prigozy, Ruth ......................................................13

RRabaté, Jean-Michel .............................................8Raby, Peter .......................................................6, 8

Reinelt, Janelle .....................................................4Richards, Shaun ....................................................7Robertson, Ritchie ................................................8Roudané, Matthew.............................................14Roudané, Matthew C..........................................14

SSchor, Esther.........................................................6Sharpe, Lesley.......................................................8Sherry, Vincent......................................................2Smith, Stan...........................................................4

TTurner, Harriet.......................................................9

UUnwin, Timothy.....................................................3

WWeinstein, Cindy.................................................11Weinstein, Philip M.............................................13Wolfson, Susan J...................................................6

YYoungs, Tim ..........................................................4

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