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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 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 Wise Blood
This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only questions our understanding of the 'Southern Gothic,' but launches an inquiry …
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 1999 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 …
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 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 …
New Essays on 'The House of Mirth'
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth captured the attention of a large portion of the reading public when it was published in a serial version in Scribner's for most of 1905 and then …
New Essays on Walden
New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau’s classic from four important contemporary perspectives. Lawrence Buell explains how decisions by Thoreau’s publisher combined with promotion …
New Essays on Invisible Man
A collection of essays on Ralph Ellison's novel, Invisible Man.
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 …