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Cambridge Companions are lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. All are collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers. Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature, and each book is supported by reference features such as a chronology and guide to further reading. Companions have colonised several fields within Humanities. The first two titles - Companions to Shakespeare and to Chaucer - were published in 1986. They were commissioned to meet a demand from students who wanted reasonably priced critical books that offered a variety of viewpoints rather than a single, idiosyncratic voice. From those beginnings we now have over 130 titles in Literature, over 60 in Philosophy and plenty more on musical, classical, religious and artistic topics. We have moved beyond single figures to offer Companions to literary and artistic genres and periods, musical instruments, and modern European cultures. Companions are designed not only to offer a comprehensive overview of their chosen topic, but to display and provoke lively and controversial debate.

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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope

The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope

The Cambridge Companion to Allegory

The Cambridge Companion to Allegory

The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism

From Howells to London

The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing

The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing

The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric

The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller

The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg

The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg

The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson

The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire

The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire

The Cambridge Companion to Beckett

The Cambridge Companion to Bede

The Cambridge Companion to Bede

The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel

The Cambridge Companion to Brian Friel

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830

The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730–1830

The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

The Cambridge Companion to Byron

The Cambridge Companion to Byron

The Cambridge Companion to Camus

The Cambridge Companion to Camus

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes

The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov

The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov

The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe

The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence

The Cambridge Companion to D. H. Lawrence

The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe

The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe

The Cambridge Companion to Dante

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Dante

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to David Hare

The Cambridge Companion to David Hare

The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet

The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet

The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo

The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo

The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii

The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii

The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster

The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee

The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell

The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson

The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740–1830

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

Volume 0, Part 0,

The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists

Volume 0, Part 0,

The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill

The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill

The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound

The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period

The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert

The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert

The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney

The Cambridge Companion to Frances Burney

The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass

The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass

The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw

The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell

The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

The Cambridge Companion to Goethe

The Cambridge Companion to Goethe

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass

The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass

The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway

The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding

The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

The Cambridge Companion to Homer

The Cambridge Companion to Homer

The Cambridge Companion to Horace

The Cambridge Companion to Horace

The Cambridge Companion to Ibsen

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to John Donne

The Cambridge Companion to John Donne

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden

The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

The Cambridge Companion to John Updike

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad

The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad

The Cambridge Companion to Kafka

The Cambridge Companion to Kafka

The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

The Cambridge Companion to Keats

The Cambridge Companion to Keats

The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne

The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne

The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli

The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood

The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft

The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100–1500

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Milton

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights

The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Moliere

The Cambridge Companion to Moliere

The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov

The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

The Cambridge Companion to Ovid

The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi

The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi

The Cambridge Companion to Proust

The Cambridge Companion to Proust

The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin

The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie

The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard

The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard

The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shelley

The Cambridge Companion to Shelley

The Cambridge Companion to Spenser

The Cambridge Companion to Spenser

The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus

The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams

The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams

The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann

The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard

The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama

The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

The Cambridge Companion to Virgil

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

2nd Edition

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf

The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire

The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats

The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens

The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin

The Cambridge Companion to War Writing

The Cambridge Companion to War Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather

The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake

The Cambridge Companion to William Blake

The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth

The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution

The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution

The Cambridge Companion to Zola

The Cambridge Companion to Zola

The Cambridge Companion to the Actress

The Cambridge Companion to the Actress

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës

The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës

The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Epic

The Cambridge Companion to the Epic

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel

From 1800 to the Present

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel

From 1800 to the Present

The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance

The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel

From 1600 to the Present

The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Novel

From 1600 to the Present

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

2nd Edition

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

2nd Edition