In these fourteen beautifully crafted stories David Slavitt shows his mastery of the form. Elegant, spare, sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac, this collection reflects a writer in admirable control of his craft.
Opens up the feminist critical project by showing that author gender has no bearing on the creation of... Læs mere
One of America's more perceptive younger critics, Louis Rubin is well known for his commentaries on the literature of the South. These essays... Læs mere
David Boyd's biography is the story of one man's dedicated struggle to protect and preserve Louisiana's fledgling state university from the... Læs mere
Recent interest in the life and works of John Crowe Ransom has brought to light the many apparent contradictions and discontinuities in the career of this important man... Læs mere
Focuses on four representative poets - Louise Bogan, Maxine Kumin, Denise Levertov, and Adrienne Rich - to explore the ways in which women writers' treatment of isolation extends our perception of women's experience and our understanding of the alienated human sensibility.
Offers the first full-scale biography of a man of meager education and limited political experience who worked his way from the North Georgia mountains to the positions of... Læs mere
Albion Tourgée published a succession of novels and stories which made him famous. Bricks Without Straw, one of his two best-selling novels, is not only a moving story but... Læs mere
Ines Murat's readable and entertaining narrative introduces us to little-known facts about the adventures and misadventures of numerous French veterans of Waterloo who... Læs mere
The first comprehensive survey of the Marquis de Lafayette as a symbolic figure in American intellectual history, this book examines the compound image of the man and the ideas he represented.