A Companion to Rhetoric offers the first major survey in two decades of the field of rhetorical studies and of the practice of rhetorical theory and criticism across a range of disciplines.

• Assesses rhetoric's place in the larger intellectual universe.
  
• Focuses on the practical side of rhetoric, looking at specific works, problems and figures.
  
• Provides examples of rhetoric from ancient times to the present day.
  
• Written by leading scholars from a variety of different fields.

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war.

• Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction


• Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity
  
• Covers different forms of fiction, including children's literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and...

This Companion provides an original and authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field.

• Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion of works by previously marginalized playwrights


• Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein
  
• Allows readers to make new links between particular plays and playwrights
  
• Examines the movements that framed the...

From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South.

• Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region
  
• Combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues
  
• Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those -...

Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages.

• Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day
  
• Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers
  
• Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres
  
• Challenges the idea that...

This Companion offers a thorough, concise overview of the emerging field of humanities computing.

• Contains 37 original articles written by leaders in the field.
  
• Addresses the central concerns shared by those interested in the subject.
  
• Major sections focus on the experience of particular disciplines in applying computational methods to research problems; the basic principles of humanities computing; specific applications and methods; and production, dissemination and archiving.
  
• Accompanied by a website...

This acclaimed volume explores and unravels the contexts, readings, genres, intertextualities and debates within Anglo-Saxon studies.

• Brings together specially-commissioned contributions from a team of leading European and American scholars.
  
• Embraces both the literature and the cultural background of the period.
  
• Combines the discussion of primary material and manuscript sources with critical analysis and readings.
  
• Considers the past, present and future of Anglo-Saxon studies

This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time.

• Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama
  
• Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

• Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing
  
• Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
  
• Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study
  This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.

• Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
  
• Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
  
• Explores the relationships between work by different poets
  
• Recalls attention to a...