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In this publication, Dana Brand traces the origin of the flaneur, a detached and powerful urban spectator, to seventeenth-century... Læs mere
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The House of Mirth topped the bestseller list for four months and sealed Edith Wharton's reputation as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her... Læs mere
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In this volume, deeper levels of meaning in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans are studied by tracking critical responses to the novel from its publication in 1826 to the present and reassessing them from a variety of critical perspectives.
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In the introduction to this collection of essays, the editor discusses the background and critical reception of "The Crying of Lot 49". Further essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical and scientific contexts.
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Faulkner's Subject: A Cosmos No One Owns offers a reading of William Faulkner by viewing his masterpieces through the lens of current critical theory. The book addresses both the power of his work and the current theoretical issues that call that power into question.
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White Noise was Delillo's breakthrough book and has received much critical acclaim. This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach Delillo's important contemporary work.
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Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time.
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Enormously well-received when first published, this 1992 re-issue of The Tenth Muse considers the debate between intellect and passion apparent in the work of poets from Bradstreet to Rich.
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American Speech, the journal of the American Dialect Society has included a regular collection of neologisms called 'Among the New... Læs mere
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A review of Thoreau's classic from four important contemporary perspectives - promotional, ecological, philosophical, and literary - is prefaced by a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.
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This collection of essays on Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the value of Jewett's... Læs mere
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Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to the work.