Many people underestimate the importance of literature in education, instead opting to question the reason behind English ...

New Jersey has raised its hand high, rejecting the all-too-easy slide into books bans. The other 49 states should do the same ...

The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers thousands of comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student ...

The classics would be Hawthorne, Stowe, Dickinson, Poe, James, Wharton. Those guys. And gals. Or shall we say, women. No one reads them. Well, I do. But I’m a freak. Or rather, I studied literature in ...

This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South ...

There is a wealth of classic literature, from Mary Shelley and Jane Austen to Nick Joaquin and Haruki Murakami, that readers can re-read or begin reading this Christmas and beyond.