Emory Elliot

Hana Wirth-Nesher

A 1996 collection of critical essays on Henry Roth's Call It Sleep.

New Essays on Call It Sleep

June Howard

This collection of essays rethinks Sarah Orne Jewett's contribution to American literature.

New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs

Deborah Esch

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 as a hardback in October of that year. Edith Wharton's story of Lily Bart topped the Am erican bestseller list for four months and sealed the author's reputation as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her generation. Each of the four articles collected in this New Essays volume makes distinctive new claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's seminal work.

New Essays on 'The House of Mirth'

Donald Pizer

Donald E. Pease

Professor of English Comparative Literature and African-American Literature Donald E Pease

Argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as a social force as well as a literary form.

New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham

Vivian R. Pollak

Specifically designed for undergraduates, the series will be a powerful resource for anyone engaged in the critical analysis of major American novels and other important texts.

New Essays on 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Turn of the Screw'

Trudier Harris

J Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English Trudier Harris

A collection of critical essays on James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain.

New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain

Valerie Smith

The essays in this volume, first published in 1995, present a range of theoretical and cultural perspectives on Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon.

New Essays on Song of Solomon

Michael Kreyling

Four essays which use new approaches to explore this familiar work of a ‘classic’ American author.

New Essays on Wise Blood

David Wyatt

The four essays and introduction explore the issues raised by The Grapes of Wrath.

New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath

Stanley Trachtenberg

The essays in this collection examine the technical mastery and thematic range of John Updike's novel Rabbit Run.

New Essays on Rabbit Run

Noel Polk

While it met with only limited success when published in 1929, this novel has since become one of the most popular of Faulkner's works. This study includes critical responses from the time of its publication to the present day as well as contemporary reassessments from a variety of critical perspectives.

New Essays on The Sound and the Fury

Patrick O'Donnell

O'Donnell Patrick

The Crying of Lot 49 is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the '50s and '60s in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays on Thomas Pynchon's important novel, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine the novel's "semiotic regime" or the way in which it organizes signs; the comparison of postmodernist Pynchon and the influential South American writer, Jorge Luis Borges; metaphor in the novel; the novel's narrative strategies; and the novel within the cultural contexts of American Puritanism and the Beat movement. Together, these essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical, and scientific contexts.

New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49

Joel Porte

The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James' most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays situates the novel in its cultural and historical context and discusses the important revisions that James later made to the text. The essays that follow address the novel's place in the tradition of modern narrative, its relation to popular women's fiction on the question of marriage, the influence of Henry James' brother William, and the character of the heroine seen from a psychoanalytic point of view.

New Essays on 'The Portrait of a Lady'

Michael Colacurcio

Michael J. Colacurcio

The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel. Each of the interpretative essays that follow places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. The first shows that an awareness of the convention of romance is essential to an understanding of the novel. A second investigates the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language, suggesting a complex relationship among author, narrator, characters, and story. A third considers the novel's pervasive metaphor of sexuality. The final essay locates the work in the genre of 'the novel of adultery'.

New Essays on 'The Scarlet Letter'

Bruccoli Matthew J.

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Professor Matthew J Bruccoli

Provides students of American Literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction.

New Essays on The Great Gatsby

Robert F. Sayre

This review of Thoreau's classic contains a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.

New Essays on Walden

Professor Donald Pizer, PhD

The four essays in this 1991 volume discuss approaches to Sister Carrie.

New Essays on Sister Carrie

Kenneth Silverman

A variety of critical approaches illuminate different facets of Poe's complex imagination by concentrating on such famous tales as The Cask of Amontillado, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

New Essays on Poe's Major Tales

Paul Smith

A collection of essays on Hemingway's short stories.

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