Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English William E Cain

This volume presents eleven new essays that reveal how significant nineteenth-and twentieth-century writers have drawn from, and in some cases, opposed major trends in philosophy. Essays in this collection deal with Tennyson, Coleridge, Woolf, Faulkner, De Quincey, Beckett, romance as a genre, the state of contemporary literary theory as shaped by the writings of Wittgenstein, Ricoeur and Derrida, and other topics.

New Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Texts

Philosophical Approaches to Literature

William E. Cain

Thoreau - philosopher, essayist, hermit, tax protester and original thinker - led a singular life. This biography includes contributions of his relationship with 19th century authority and concepts of the land.

Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English William E Cain

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