This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.

On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.

"The five volumes of A History of American Magazines constitute a unique cultural history of America, viewed through the pages and pictures of her periodicals from the publication of the first monthly magazine in 1741 through the golden age of magazines in the twentieth century"--Page 4 of cover.