The Cambridge Companion To Ralph Ellison

A comprehensive introduction to novelist and critic Ralph Ellison and his masterpiece Invisible Man.

This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This Companion presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel.