The Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics form a book series published by Cambridge University Press. Each book is a collection of essays on the topic commissioned by the publisher.
Volumes (sortable table)
| to... | Editor(s) | Publ. |
|---|---|---|
| Sherlock Holmes | Janice M. Allan, Christopher Pittard | 2019 |
| Roman Comedy | Martin T. Dinter | 2019 |
| Edward Albee | Stephen J. Bottoms | |
| Margaret Atwood | Coral Ann Howells | |
| W. H. Auden | Stan Smith | |
| Jane Austen | Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster (second edition) | |
| James Baldwin | Michele Elam | 2015 |
| Beckett | John Pilling | |
| Bede | Scott DeGregorio | |
| Aphra Behn | Derek Hughes and Janet Todd | |
| Walter Benjamin | David S. Ferris | |
| William Blake | Morris Eaves | |
| Boccaccio | Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner | |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Edwin Williamson | |
| Brecht | Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (second edition) | |
| The Brontës | Heather Glen | |
| Bunyan | Anne Dunan-Page | |
| Frances Burney | Peter Sabor | |
| Byron | Drummond Bone | |
| Albert Camus | Edward J. Hughes | |
| Willa Cather | Marilee Lindemann | |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Anthony J. Cascardi | |
| Chaucer | Piero Boitani and Jill Mann (second edition) | |
| Chekhov | Vera Gottlieb and Paul Allain | |
| Kate Chopin | Janet Beer | |
| Caryl Churchill | Elaine Aston and Elin Diamond | |
| Cicero | Catherine Steel | |
| Coleridge | Lucy Newlyn | |
| Wilkie Collins | Jenny Bourne Taylor | |
| Joseph Conrad | J. H. Stape | |
| H. D. | Nephie J. Christodoulides and Polina Mackay | |
| Dante | Rachel Jacoff (second edition) | |
| Daniel Defoe | John Richetti | |
| Don DeLillo | John N. Duvall | |
| Charles Dickens | John O. Jordan | |
| Emily Dickinson | Wendy Martin | |
| John Donne | Achsah Guibbory | |
| Dostoevskii | W. J. Leatherbarrow | |
| Theodore Dreiser | Leonard Cassuto and Claire Virginia Eby | |
| John Dryden | Steven N. Zwicker | |
| W. E. B. Du Bois | Shamoon Zamir | |
| George Eliot | George Levine | |
| T. S. Eliot | A. David Moody | |
| Ralph Ellison | Ross Posnock | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Joel Porte and Saundra Morris | |
| William Faulkner | Philip M. Weinstein | |
| Henry Fielding | Claude Rawson | |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | Ruth Prigozy | |
| Flaubert | Timothy Unwin | |
| E. M. Forster | David Bradshaw | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Carla Mulford | |
| Brian Friel | Anthony Roche | |
| Robert Frost | Robert Faggen | |
| Gabriel García Márquez | Philip Swanson | |
| Elizabeth Gaskell | Jill L. Matus | |
| Goethe | Lesley Sharpe | |
| Günter Grass | Stuart Taberner | |
| Thomas Hardy | Dale Kramer | |
| David Hare | Richard Boon | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Richard Millington | |
| Seamus Heaney | Bernard O'Donoghue | |
| Ernest Hemingway | Scott Donaldson | |
| Homer | Robert Fowler | |
| Horace | Stephen Harrison | |
| Ted Hughes | Terry Gifford | |
| Ibsen | James McFarlane | |
| Henry James | Jonathan Freedman | |
| Samuel Johnson | Greg Clingham | |
| Ben Jonson | Richard Harp and Stanley Stewart | |
| James Joyce | Derek Attridge (second edition) | |
| Kafka | Julian Preece | |
| Keats | Susan J. Wolfson | |
| Rudyard Kipling | Howard J. Booth | |
| Lacan | Jean-Michel Rabaté | |
| D. H. Lawrence | Anne Fernihough | |
| Primo Levi | Robert Gordon | |
| Lucretius | Stuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie | |
| Machiavelli | John M. Najemy | |
| David Mamet | Christopher Bigsby | |
| Thomas Mann | Ritchie Robertson | |
| Christopher Marlowe | Patrick Cheney | |
| Andrew Marvell | Derek Hirst and Steven N. Zwicker | |
| Herman Melville | Robert S. Levine | |
| Arthur Miller | Christopher Bigsby (second edition) | |
| Milton | Dennis Danielson (second edition) | |
| Molière | David Bradby and Andrew Calder | |
| Toni Morrison | Justine Tally | |
| Alice Munro | David Staines | |
| Nabokov | Julian W. Connolly | |
| Eugene O'Neill | Michael Manheim | |
| George Orwell | John Rodden | |
| Ovid | Philip Hardie | |
| Petrarch | Albert Russell Ascoli and Unn Falkeid | |
| Harold Pinter | Peter Raby (second edition) | |
| Sylvia Plath | Jo Gill | |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Kevin J. Hayes | |
| Alexander Pope | Pat Rogers | |
| Ezra Pound | Ira B. Nadel | |
| Proust | Richard Bales | |
| Pushkin | Andrew Kahn | |
| Rabelais | John O'Brien | |
| Rilke | Karen Leeder and Robert Vilain | |
| Philip Roth | Timothy Parrish | |
| Salman Rushdie | Abdulrazak Gurnah | |
| John Ruskin | Francis O'Gorman | |
| Shakespeare | Margareta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (second edition) | |
| Shakespearean Comedy | Alexander Leggatt | |
| Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists | Ton Hoenselaars | |
| Shakespeare and Popular Culture | Robert Shaughnessy | |
| Shakespearean Tragedy | Claire McEachern (second edition) | |
| Shakespeare on Film | Russell Jackson (second edition) | |
| Shakespeare on Stage | Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton | |
| Shakespeare's History Plays | Michael Hattaway | |
| Shakespeare's Last Plays | Catherine M. S. Alexander | |
| Shakespeare's Poetry | Patrick Cheney | |
| George Bernard Shaw | Christopher Innes | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Timothy Morton | |
| Mary Shelley | Esther Schor | |
| Sam Shepard | Matthew C. Roudané | |
| Spenser | Andrew Hadfield | |
| Laurence Sterne | Thomas Keymer | |
| Wallace Stevens | John N. Serio | |
| Tom Stoppard | Katherine E. Kelly | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Cindy Weinstein | |
| August Strindberg | Michael Robinson | |
| Jonathan Swift | Christopher Fox | |
| J. M. Synge | P. J. Mathews | |
| Tacitus | A. J. Woodman | |
| Henry David Thoreau | Joel Myerson | |
| Tolstoy | Donna Tussing Orwin | |
| Anthony Trollope | Carolyn Dever and Lisa Niles | |
| Mark Twain | Forrest G. Robinson | |
| John Updike | Stacey Olster | |
| Mario Vargas Llosa | Efrain Kristal and John King | |
| Virgil | Charles Martindale | |
| Voltaire | Nicholas Cronk | |
| Edith Wharton | Millicent Bell | |
| Walt Whitman | Ezra Greenspan | |
| Oscar Wilde | Peter Raby | |
| Tennessee Williams | Matthew C. Roudané | |
| August Wilson | Christopher Bigsby | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Claudia L. Johnson | |
| Virginia Woolf | Susan Sellers (second edition) | |
| Wordsworth | Stephen Gill | |
| W. B. Yeats | Marjorie Howes and John Kelly | |
| Xenophon | Michael A. Flower | |
| Zola | Brian Nelson | |
| The Actress | Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes | |
| The African American Novel | Maryemma Graham | |
| The African American Slave Narrative | Audrey A. Fisch | |
| Theatre History | David Wiles and Christine Dymkowski | |
| African American Theatre | Harvey Young | |
| Allegory | Rita Copeland and Peter Struck | |
| American Crime Fiction | Catherine Ross Nickerson | |
| American Modernism | Walter Kalaidjian | |
| American Poetry Since 1945 | Jennifer Ashton | |
| American Realism and Naturalism | Donald Pizer | |
| American Travel Writing | Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera | |
| American Women Playwrights | Brenda Murphy | |
| Ancient Rhetoric | Erik Gunderson | |
| Arthurian Legend | Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter | |
| Australian Literature | Elizabeth Webby | |
| British Literature of the French Revolution | Pamela Clemit | |
| British Romanticism | Stuart Curran (second edition) | |
| British Romantic Poetry | James Chandler and Maureen N. McLane | |
| British Theatre, 1730–1830 | Jane Moody and Daniel O'Quinn | |
| Canadian Literature | Eva-Marie Kröller | |
| Children's Literature | M. O. Grenby and Andrea Immel | |
| The Classic Russian Novel | Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller | |
| Contemporary Irish Poetry | Matthew Campbell | |
| Creative Writing | David Morley and Philip Neilsen | |
| Crime Fiction | Martin Priestman | |
| Early Modern Women's Writing | Laura Lunger Knoppers | |
| The Eighteenth-Century Novel | John Richetti | |
| Eighteenth-Century Poetry | John Sitter | |
| Emma | Peter Sabor | |
| English Literature, 1500–1600 | Arthur F. Kinney | |
| English Literature, 1650–1740 | Steven N. Zwicker | |
| English Literature, 1740–1830 | Thomas Keymer and Jon Mee | |
| English Literature, 1830–1914 | Joanne Shattock | |
| English Novelists | Adrian Poole | |
| English Poetry, Donne to Marvell | Thomas N. Corns | |
| English Poets | Claude Rawson | |
| English Renaissance Drama | A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway (second edition) | |
| English Renaissance Tragedy | Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan Jr. | |
| English Restoration Theatre | Deborah C. Payne Fisk | |
| The Epic | Catherine Bates | |
| European Modernism | Pericles Lewis | |
| European Novelists | Michael Bell | |
| Fairy Tales | Maria Tatar | |
| Fantasy Literature | Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn | |
| Feminist Literary Theory | Ellen Rooney | |
| Fiction in the Romantic Period | Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener | |
| The Fin de Siècle | Gail Marshall | |
| The French Enlightenment | Daniel Brewer | |
| French Literature | John D. Lyons | |
| The French Novel: From 1800 to the Present | Timothy Unwin | |
| Gay and Lesbian Writing | Hugh Stevens | |
| German Romanticism | Nicholas Saul | |
| Gothic Fiction | Jerrold E. Hogle | |
| The Graphic Novel | Stephen E. Tabachnick | |
| The Greek and Roman Novel | Tim Whitmarsh | |
| Greek and Roman Theatre | Marianne McDonald and J. Michael Walton | |
| Greek Comedy | Martin Revermann | |
| Greek Lyric | Felix Budelmann | |
| Greek Mythology | Roger D. Woodard | |
| Greek Tragedy | P. E. Easterling | |
| The Harlem Renaissance | George Hutchinson | |
| The History of the Book | Leslie Howsam | |
| The Irish Novel | John Wilson Foster | |
| The Italian Novel | Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli | |
| The Italian Renaissance | Michael Wyatt | |
| Jewish American Literature | Hana Wirth-Nesher and Michael P. Kramer | |
| The Latin American Novel | Efraín Kristal | |
| The Literature of the First World War | Vincent Sherry | |
| The Literature of London | Lawrence Manley | |
| The Literature of Los Angeles | Kevin R. McNamara | |
| The Literature of New York | Cyrus Patell and Bryan Waterman | |
| The Literature of Paris | Anna-Louise Milne | |
| The Literature of World War II | Marina MacKay | |
| Literature on Screen | Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan | |
| Medieval English Culture | Andrew Galloway | |
| Medieval English Literature | Larry Scanlon | |
| Medieval English Mysticism | Samuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie | |
| Medieval English Theatre | Richard Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher (second edition) | |
| Medieval French Literature | Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay | |
| Medieval Romance | Roberta L. Krueger | |
| Medieval Women's Writing | Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace | |
| Modern American Culture | Christopher Bigsby | |
| Modern British Women Playwrights | Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt | |
| Modern French Culture | Nicholas Hewitt | |
| Modern German Culture | Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will | |
| The Modern German Novel | Graham Bartram | |
| The Modern Gothic | Jerrold E. Hogle | |
| Modern Irish Culture | Joe Cleary and Claire Connolly | |
| Modern Italian Culture | Zygmunt G. Baranski and Rebecca J. West | |
| Modern Latin American Culture | John King | |
| Modern Russian Culture | Nicholas Rzhevsky | |
| Modern Spanish Culture | David T. Gies | |
| Modernism | Michael Levenson (second edition) | |
| The Modernist Novel | Morag Shiach | |
| Modernist Poetry | Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins | |
| Modernist Women Writers | Maren Tova Linett | |
| Narrative | PubMed | |
| Native American Literature | Joy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer | |
| Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing | Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould | |
| Old English Literature | Malcolm Godden and Michael Lapidge (second edition) | |
| Performance Studies | Tracy C. Davis | |
| Piers Plowman | Andrew Cole and Andrew Galloway | |
| Popular Fiction | David Glover and Scott McCracken | |
| Postcolonial Literary Studies | Neil Lazarus | |
| Postmodern American Fiction | Paula Geyh | |
| Postmodernism | Steven Connor | |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | Elizabeth Prettejohn | |
| Pride and Prejudice | Janet Todd | |
| Renaissance Humanism | Jill Kraye | |
| The Roman Historians | Andrew Feldherr | |
| Roman Satire | Kirk Freudenburg | |
| Science fiction | Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn | |
| Scottish Literature | Gerald Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney | |
| Sensation Fiction | Andrew Mangham | |
| The Sonnet | A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth | |
| The Spanish Novel: From 1600 to the Present | Harriet Turner and Adelaida López de Martínez | |
| Textual Scholarship | Neil Fraistat and Julia Flanders | |
| Travel Writing | Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs | |
| Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry | Jane Dowson | |
| The Twentieth-Century English Novel | Robert L. Caserio | |
| Twentieth-Century English Poetry | Neil Corcoran | |
| Twentieth-Century Irish Drama | Shaun Richards | |
| Twentieth-Century Russian Literature | Marina Balina and Evgeny Dobrenko | |
| Utopian Literature | Gregory Claeys | |
| Victorian and Edwardian Theatre | Kerry Powell | |
| The Victorian Novel | Deirdre David (second edition) | |
| Victorian Poetry | Joseph Bristow | |
| Victorian Women's Writing | Linda H. Peterson | |
| War Writing | Kate McLoughlin | |
| Women's Writing in Britain, 1660–1789 | Catherine Ingrassia | |
| Women's Writing in the Romantic Period | Devoney Looser | |
| Writing of the English Revolution | N. H. Keeble |