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Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.  \nPublished Recently  \n61. A Companion to Thomas Hardy  \n62. A Companion to T. S. Eliot  \n63. A Companion to Samuel Beckett  \n64. A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction  \n65. A Companion to Tudor Literature  \n66. A Companion to Crime Fiction  \n67. A Companion to Medieval Poetry  \n68. A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture  \n69. A Companion to the American Short Story  \n70. A Companion to American Literature and Culture  \n71. A Companion to African American Literature  \n72. A Companion to Irish Literature  \n73. A Companion to Romantic Poetry  \n74. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West  \n75. A Companion to Sensation Fiction  \n76. A Companion to Comparative Literature  \n77. A Companion to Poetic Genre  \n78. A Companion to American Literary Studies  \n79. A New Companion to the Gothic  \n80. A Companion to the American Novel  \nEdited by Keith Wilson Edited by David E. Chinitz Edited by S. E. Gontarski  \nEdited by David Seed Edited by Kent Cartwright Edited by Charles Rzepka and  \nLee Horsley Edited by Corinne Saunders Edited by Michael Hattaway Edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel  \nEdited by Paul Lauter  \nEdited by Gene Jarrett  \nEdited by Julia M. Wright Edited by Charles Mahoney Edited by Nicolas S. Witschi Edited by Pamela K. Gilbert Edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas  \nEdited by Erik Martiny Edited by Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. 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