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Great Expectations
This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Charles Dickens' novel. ""Great Expectations"", one of Dickens' finest novels in terms of writing and construction, tells the …
D.H. Lawrence
The dominant view of D.H. Lawrence's work has long been that of F. R. Leavis, who confined Lawrence within an exclusively ethical and artistic tradition. In D.H. Lawrence: The …
The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism
Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally …
Modernism and the Critical Spirit
Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's …
Mostly Grave Thoughts
In this new collection, Eugene Goodheart, scholar of English literature, essayist, and public intellectual, reveals himself in a way that will interest readers already familiar …
The State of Our Disunion
The US Constitution resists centralizing authority by granting equal power to the three branches of government, as well as the individual states. The risk inherent in the …
Confessions of a Secular Jew
What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience …
Does Literary Studies Have a Future?
An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate …
Cult of the Ego
Goethe once remarked that "e;every emancipation of the spirit is pernicious unless there is a corresponding growth of control."e; This remark may be taken as a motto for …
Novel Practices
An important debate in modern literary criticism concerns the exact relationship between the ancient epic and the novel. Both the epic and the most ambitious modern novels are …
Darwinian Misadventures in the Humanities
In recent decades the humanities have been in thrall to postmodern skepticism, while Darwinists, brimming with confidence in the genuine progress they have made in the sciences of …
Charles Dickens
This volume in the Critical Insights series brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary essays on Dickens's most widely read works. Eugene Goodheart, Edytha Macy …