This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.

Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.

This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.

This book addresses the way cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions that are central to debates in World Literature.

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexit