The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood Coral Ann Howells, editor ISBN-10: 0521548519 ISBN-13: 9780521548519 $24.99 Paperback Cambridge University Press Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past 40 years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity.

The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats Marjorie Howes & John Kelly, editors ISBN-10: 0521658861 ISBN-13: 9780521658867 $24.99 Paperback Cambridge University Press This accessible and thought-provoking companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the 20th century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examines Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose in their historical and national contexts, explaining and synthesizing major aspects and themes of his life and work. The Cambridge Companion to John Updike Stacey Olster, editor ISBN-10: 0521607302 ISBN-13: 9780521607308 $24.99 Paperback Cambridge University Press John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This companion addresses the major themes in Updike's writing, as well as the sources of controversy that his writing has often provoked. The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville Cheryl B. Welch, editor ISBN-10: 0521549965 ISBN-13: 9780521549967 $31.99 Paperback Cambridge University Press This collection of essays cover Tocqueville's major themes and texts, analyzing both his contributions as a theorist of modern democracy and his craft as a writer. It transcends national, ideological, disciplinary, and textual boundaries to bring together the best in recent Tocqueville scholarship. The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy Paul Guyer, editor ISBN-10: 0521529956 ISBN-13: 9780521529952 $29.99 Paperback Cambridge University Press The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. This volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy.