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

Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer,

The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provi

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