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Boy Life
Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
by Sophie Ratcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
What happens when we engage with fictional characters? How do our imaginative engagements bear on our actions in the wider world? Moving between the literary and the philosophical, Sophie Ratcliffe considers the ways in which readers feel when they read, and how they understand ideas of feeling. On...
by Clare Virginia Eby, Benjamin Reiss
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important...
Lost for Words
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Edward St. Aubyn is "great at dissecting an entire social world" (Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times)
Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels were some of the most celebrated works of fiction of the past decade. Ecstatic praise came from a wide range of admirers, from literary superstars...
by Sayaka Murata
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Murata has been a huge runaway bestseller in Japan, one of the highest selling literary novels of recent years, selling 660,000 hardcovers to date. Convenience Store Woman won Japan’s most prestigious literary prize, the Akutagawa Prize. Rights have been sold in nine territories so far; Grove conducted...
Hawthorne's Habitations
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The first literary/biographical study of Hawthorne's full career in almost forty years, Hawthorne's Habitations presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake and remarkably adept at rendering it yet fearful of the nothingness he intuited at its heart. Making...
Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics
Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930s in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics,...
by Steven J. Zipperstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when felled by a heart attack at the age of thirty-eight,...
William T. Vollmann
A Critical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully...
by Prabda Yoon
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Winner of a PEN Translates! grant.
Winner of the Southeast Asian Write Award.
Selected as a ‘book to look out for in 2017’ by The Guardian and BuzzFeed Books.
Named #1 Best Beach Read of 2017 by Monocle Summer Weekly.
In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon riffs on...
Mencken on Mencken
A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Mencken weighs 172 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches in height and not beautiful. His chief amusement, after reading, is piano-playing, this he does very crudely. He takes no exercise except walking and is a moderate eater and drinker. He sometimes drinks as little as one bottle of beer a week, though...
Monopolizing the Master
Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Henry James defied posterity to disturb his bones: he was adamant that his legacy be based exclusively on his publications and that his private life and writings remain forever private. Despite this, almost immediately after his death in 1916 an intense struggle began among his family and his literary...
Belligerent Muse
Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2000
Ben Jonson is, in many ways, the figure of greatest centrality to literary study of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period. He wrote in virtually every literary genre: in drama, comedy, tragedy and masque; in poetry, epigram, epistle and lyric; in prose, literary criticism and English grammar. He became...