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New Essays on Moby-Dick
The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volume begins with a substantial …
New Essays on 'The Portrait of a Lady'
The Portrait of a Lady is arguably Henry James's most appealing and accessible novel. The introduction to this volume of specially written essays, first published in 1990, situates …
New Essays on The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays, first published in 1991, argues the …
New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye
First published in 1951, Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States. In …
New Essays on My Ántonia
My Antonia is undoubtedly Willa Cather's most famous novel. It is also her most autobiographical novel and her most aesthetically complex; it can be enjoyed both for its simple, …
New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon’s novel, 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 …
New Essays on Wise Blood
These new critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s explosive first novel, not only question our understanding of the ‘Southern Gothic,’ but launch a new inquiry into the …
New Essays on Winesburg, Ohio
Sixty years after its first publication, Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio continues to stand as a 'classic' of modernist American fiction. In original new essays by David H. …
New Essays on Seize the Day
This book provides a multifaceted introduction to Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow’s most widely read, respected, and taught work of fiction, Seize the Day.. This tragi-comic story …
New Essays on The Education of Henry Adams
This volume in The American Novel series addresses the established reputation of The Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American autobiography and canonical work of …
New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin
Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The essays in this volume …
New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs
This is a collection of new essays on one of the most important works of New England local colour fiction, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett. It builds on …