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The San Francisco Renaissance is the first overview of this major American literary movement. Michael Davidson recounts its emergence during the postwar period in the San Francisco Bay area and then as it blossomed into the literary excitements associated with the Beat movement.
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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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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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The introduction to this 1993 volume places James's fiction in the context of the family that conditioned his concern with the sexual politics of... Læs mere
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This 1989 book is a comparative literary study of apocalyptic themes and narrative techniques in the contemporary... 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.
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This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the... Læs mere
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This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism, which have long served to designate major late nineteenth-century American fiction. It includes ten essays that deal with the historical context, application, and expansion of this movement.
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The hero of John Updike's most popular and critically acclaimed novel is a middle-class American who isn't 'especially beautiful or bright or urban.' The essays in this... Læs mere
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This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only questions our understanding of the 'Southern Gothic' but launches a new inquiry into the nature and history of O'Connor's critical reputation.
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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a... Læs mere