Jane Tompkins: 2 books
West of Everything
The Inner Life of Westerns
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1993
A leading figure in the debate over the literary canon, Jane Tompkins was one of the first to point to the ongoing relevance of popular women's fiction in the 19th century, long overlooked or scorned by literary critics. Now, in West of Everything, Tompkins shows how popular novels and films of the...
Sensational Designs
The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 1986
In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy. Sensational Designs challenges comfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."