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The Critical Reception of Emerson
A history of the most important scholarly criticism of Emerson from his time down to the present. Since the 1820s, Ralph Waldo Emerson has provoked an unsettled response from his …
Recent Criticism of James Joyce's Ulysses
A study that must be read by all scholars and students of Joyce. Since its appearance in 1922, James Joyce's novel Ulysses has remained extremely popular, never having gone out of …
The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels
Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing their concern with climate change within the wider crises …
How D. H. Lawrence Read Herman Melville
Details Lawrence's reception of Melville and reveals his underacknowledged role in the Melville Revival, while contributing to the history of the book and the study of the creative …
The Strange Sad War Revolving
Analysis of Whitman's reflection of civil rights legislation in his work, 1865-1876. Walt Whitman's prolific Reconstruction project has remained the most uncultivated decade in …
The Formal Center in Literature
An investigation of the phenomenon of the framed formal center in literature of the last 180 years, illuminating both the works and correspondences among works of different genres, …
Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds
The first detailed study of a major but neglected work by Thoreau. Until very recently, only a handful of Thoreau specialists knew of the existence of 'The Dispersion of Seeds', an …
A Companion to the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader. J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of …
Wordsworth and the Critics
The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory. William Wordsworth, often regarded as the High Priest of British Romantic Poetry, certainly had the …
Iris Murdoch's Paradoxical Novels
The first study of the literary criticism on Murdoch's novels. The novels of the late Iris Murdoch have been compared to Shakespeare; her name has been put forward for the Nobel …
The Otherworlds of Liz Jensen
The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction. Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is …
The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J. M. Coetzee
New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and …