Solitude and Society in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton

Linda C Cahir

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• The interplay between solitude and society was a particularly persistent theme in nineteenth-century American literature, though writers approached th... Lees meer

The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature

Katherine Payant, Toby Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and... Lees meer

Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry

Philip McGowan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature | nr. 16
• Focusing on Sexton's poems rather than on the life she led, this fresh critique of her work restarts the debate about her poetry 30 years after her de... Lees meer

American Literary Humor During the Great Depression

Robert A Gates

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• While volumes have been generated about the Great Depression, relatively little work has been done on the social transformations during the 1930s and ... Lees meer

Songs of the Reconstructing South

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature | nr. 11
• The South has a rich cultural legacy and that of Louisiana is especially strong and diverse. Despite its similarities with the rest of the South, Loui... Lees meer

Impossible to Say

L Lamar Nisly

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• Although Judaism and Catholicism have important differences, both religions contain elements of religious mystery, aspects of belief that transcend th... Lees meer

Songs of the New South

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• The works of Louisiana authors differ from the works of other Southern writers in significant ways. Strong French, Spanish, Native American, and Afric... Lees meer

The Post-Utopian Imagination

M Keith Booker

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was clos... Lees meer

Teaching Faulkner

Stephen Hahn, Robert W Hamblin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature | nr. 9
• For decades now literary critics have universally praised Faulkner as one of the greatest writers of the modern era, yet students assigned to read his... Lees meer

American Carnival

Philip McGowan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• Traditionally, the carnival mode in Europe offers a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions; however, through the presentation and represen... Lees meer

The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut

Peter Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature | nr. 1
• Kurt Vonnegut's career as a novelist encompasses virtually the whole second half of the twentieth century, and his novels are among the most widely re... Lees meer

Word, Birth, and Culture

Daneen Wardrop

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other; the works of the three poets a... Lees meer

The Marriage of Heaven and Earth

Randall a Clack

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of American Literature
• From the Middle Ages to the close of the 17th century, alchemy was fundamental to Western culture, as scores of experimenters sought to change lead in... Lees meer