New Essays on the Education of Henry Adams

Rowe John Carlos

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• This volume addresses the established reputation of the Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American autobiography and a canonical work of A... Lees meer

New Essays on Wise Blood

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• These new critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only question our understanding of the "Southern Gothic," but ... Lees meer

New Essays on Walden

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• New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau's classic from four important contemporary perspectives. Lawrence Buell explains how decisions by Thoreau's publi... Lees meer

New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio

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• Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a "classic" of modernist American fiction. In origi... Lees meer

New Essays on the Catcher in the Rye

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• First published in 1951, Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned b... Lees meer

New Essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham

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• The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays argues t... Lees meer

New Essays on Their Eyes Were Watching God

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• "The American Novel" series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each vo... Lees meer

New Essays on 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'

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• The essays in this volume represent a wide range of approaches to one of the most popular of all American novels. Michael Bell re-examines the crucial... Lees meer

New Essays on the House of Mirth

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• The House of Mirth captured the attention of a large portion of the reading public when it was published in a serial version for most of 1905 and then... Lees meer

New Essays on the Awakening

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• "The American Novel" series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each vo... Lees meer

New Essays on the Sound and the Fury

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• William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury met with only limited success when published in 1929, probably due to its fragmented, non-chronological stru... Lees meer

New Essays on My Antonia

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• My Ántonia is the Cather novel that is most often taught in high school and college courses, and the one that most readers try first when they approac... Lees meer

New Essays on Billy Budd

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• Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most popular work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the five years before his death, and it was publi... Lees meer

New Essays on Call It Sleep

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• Henry Roth's Call it Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades, and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been fi... Lees meer

New Essays on Wise Blood

Michael Kreyling

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• These new critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only question our understanding of the "Southern Gothic," but ... Lees meer

New Essays on the Red Badge of Courage

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• First published in 1895, The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, L... Lees meer

New Essays on a Farewell to Arms

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• When first published in 1929, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms was decried as a vulgar novel, and was actually banned in Boston. In his extensive... Lees meer

New Essays on my Antonia

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• My Ántonia is the Cather novel that is most often taught in high school and college courses, and the one that most readers try first when they approac... Lees meer

New Essays on Rabbit Run

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• Still John Updike's most popular and critically acclaimed novel, Rabbit Run introduced the character of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, one of those middle-c... Lees meer

New Essays on Light in August

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• In a series of essays written especially for this volume, five distinguished critics offer a range of approaches, discussing the novel in terms of its... Lees meer

New Essays on Walden

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• New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau's classic from four important contemporary perspectives. Lawrence Buell explains how decisions by Thoreau's publi... Lees meer

New Essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham

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• The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays argues t... Lees meer

New Essays on Song of Solomon

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• The essays collected here, written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work, exemplify the fresh theoretical and cultural perspectives that have bee... Lees meer

New Essays on Go Down, Moses

Linda Prof Wagner-Martin

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• Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during the second world war and was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, yet it has fallen ... Lees meer