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The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works. Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that …
Edward Lear and the Critics
Critical response to Lear's literary, journalistic, musical and artistic output. This book is a history of how critics from the nineteenth century on have regarded Lear's extensive …
Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism
This first book-length study of Pound criticism investigates not just what critics have had to say about Pound but also why they have asked the questions they have asked. …
Goethe's Werther and the Critics
A literary-historical look at the scholarly criticism of Goethe's great first novel. When Goethe's first novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther) …
Oscar Wilde in the 1990s
An examination of the most significant literary criticism on Wilde at the turn of the century. In 1891, Oscar Wilde defined 'the highest criticism' as 'the record of one's own …
Changing Perceptions of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
Wide-ranging survey of the critical reaction provoked by Mann's Doctor Faustus. Since its publication in 1947, Thomas Mann's daring treatment of the Faust theme has generated …
Kafka's The Castle and the Critical Imagination
Survey of the criticism devoted to Kafka's The Castle, his final novel. Kafka's final, unfinished novel, The Castle, remains one of the most celebrated yet most impenetrable …
Georg Kaiser and the Critics
Study of the critical attention devoted to Georg Kaiser, the important German dramatist. Georg Kaiser (1878-1945) is considered one of the most enigmatic figures in modern German …
The Critical Life of Toni Morrison
The first book to trace the critical reception of the great African American woman writer, attending not only to her fiction but to her nonfiction and critical writings. Toni …
Mark Twain under Fire
Tracks the genesis and evolution of Twain's reputation as a writer, revealing how and why the writer has been "under fire" since the advent of his career. Threatened by a rival …
Schiller's "Wallenstein," "Maria Stuart," and "Die Jungfrau von Orleans"
An overview of the reception of Schiller's late dramas in the context of radical shifts in historical thought. Changing perceptions about history necessarily color the critical …
Henry David Thoreau
A reception history of the writings of Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden. Professor Scharnhorst's survey of trends in Thoreau criticism over the past century and a half shows …