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In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. The book confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America.
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The essays collected in this volume, first published in 1995, are written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work and exemplify the theoretical and cultural perspectives... Læs mere
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This Companion serves both as an introduction for the interested reader and as a source of the best recent scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to... Læs mere
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Reimagining Thoreau synthesises the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862.
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Novel Arguments, first published in 1995, argues that innovative fiction extends our ways of thinking about the world, rejecting the critical consensus that, under the rubrics of postmodernism and metafiction, homogenises this fiction as autonomous and self-absorbed.
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The scholars in this collection posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide elucidating approaches to James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain.
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This wide-ranging volume covers Williams's works, from the early apprenticeship years through to his last play before his death in 1983. In addition to... Læs mere
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The Complicity of Imagination examines the relationship between four... Læs mere
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Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative.
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This is a critical and historical interpretation of 'Oriental' influences on American modernist poetry. Kern equates Fenollosa and Pound's 'discovery' of Chinese writing with the American pursuit of a natural language for poetry, what Emerson had termed the 'language of nature'.
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This is the first full-length study of the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing writers such as... Læs mere
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This 1996 book argues that Henry James's work exemplifies the complex role literature plays in the formation of broadly racial, national and cultural... Læs mere