Edwin Harrison Cady

A Literary Study in American Culture

The Gentleman in America

Louis J. Budd

“Many of the selections have become standard studies and interpretations: Sherman Paul on “The Town-Ho’s Story,’ R. W. B. Lewis on Melville and Homer, Merton Sealts on Melville’s “I and My Chimney,’ to name only a few. The quality of the selections is very high indeed, as was true of earlier volumes in this series. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice

On Melville

“This volume on Twain is among the first in a series of critical appraisals of American authors, 'The Best from American Literature,' which reprints articles from the pages of that prestigious journal. . . . This amounts to a fascinating portrait of Samuel Clemens as author/performer/reformer/husband-man and public figure, thereby profiling the evolution of literary opinion and arbitration of an emerging canon. “Overall, this valuable entry in the process of recollecting our past scholarship amounts to a most useful overview of American literary study. More important, the Twain selections represent an acutely balanced chronology of a complex talent. This volume and those following should be invaluable additions to academic collections.”—Choice

On Mark Twain

“The journal American Literature was founded in 1929 and since that time has regularly published important articles on the study of literature in the United States. Many of the articles that appeared in the journal have, in fact, become the 'standard view' or 'the final word' on a particular literary subject. . . . The series will be an important acquisition for every college library.”—Choice

On Faulkner

Professor Louis J Budd

“The fifteen essays on Emerson, reprinted here, were published in American Literature from 1937 to 1986 and reveal the continuity of that journal's interest in studies of literary influence, textual scholarship, and intellectual history. As this volume reveals, its editorial standards for scholarship have contributed to the publication of essays that have endured the winds of fashion.”—Choice

On Emerson

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. American Literature has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.

On Henry James

‡a "What is attempted here is a study of the fate in America of the cluster of concepts, values, attitudes, and cultural forms implied by the word "gentleman" as it is reflected in American literature"--Introduction.

The Concept of the Gentleman in Representative American Authors

From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts. "The articles in each volume are presented in the order of their first appearance in American Literature and each opens a fresh line of inquiry, establishes a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settles a question that engaged the interest of experts. The selections are the most enduring work still useful for the study and teaching of important literary figures, or of an intellectual movement, motif, or genre. They represent the full range of thought from the scholarship that created the discipline and upon which much of the current work rests."--Dorys Crow Grover, Western American Literature Partial Contents Poe as Social Critic (1934)/Ernest Marchand Edgar Allan Poe: A Crisis in the History of American Obscurantism (1937)/Yvor Winters Poe and the Chess Automaton (1939)/W. K. Wimsatt, Jr. The Refrain in Poe's Poetry (1953)/Anthony Caputi Poe's Sense of an Ending (1973)/Paul John Eakin "The language of the cipher": Interpretation in "The Gold Bug" (1982)/Michael Williams The Psychology of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1982)/ J. A. Leo Lemay Poe's Re-Vision: The Recovery of the Second Story (1987)/Cynthia S. Jordan

On Poe

“The journal American Literature was founded in 1929 and since that time has regularly published important articles on the study of literature in the United States. Many of the articles that appeared in the journal have, in fact, become the ‘standard view’ or ‘the final word’ on a particular literary subject. . . . The series will be an important acquisition for every college library.”—Choice

On Hawthorne

Contents Robert Frost and the Sound of Sense (1937), Robert S. Newdick The Humanistic Idealism of Robert Frost (1941), Hyatt Howe Waggoner Robert Frost's Asides on His Poetry (1948), Reginald L. Cook Frost on Frost: The Making of Poems (1956), Reginald L. Cook The Unity of Frost's Masques (1960), W. R. Irwin Religion in Robert Frost's Poetry: The Play for Self-Possession (1964), Anna K. Juhnke Frost's Poetry of Fear (1972), Eben Bass Robert Frost's Dramatic Principle of “Oversound” (1973), Tom Vander Ven Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens: “What to Make of a Diminished Thing” (1975), Todd M. Lieber Robert Frost: “The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows” (1981), Priscilla M. Paton Frost's Synecdochism (1986), George F. Bagby, Jr. Comparing Conceptions: Frost and Eddington, Heisenberg, and Bohr (1987), Guy Rotella “The Place is the Asylum”: Women and Nature in Robert Frost's poetry (1987), Katherine Kearns Frost and Modernism (1988), Robert Kern “The Lurking Frost”: Poetic and Rhetoric in “Two Tramps in Mud Time” (1988), Walter Jost The Resentments of Robert Frost (1990), Frank Lentricchia

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