The novels of Paul Auster have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, an international group of scholars provide a rich and insightful examinati…
"Most scholarship on the mass migrations of African Americans and southern whites during and after the Great Depression treats those migrations as separate phenomena, strictly divided along racial lines. In this engaging interdisciplinary work, Erin Royston Battat argues instead…
"A History of Californian Literature surveys the paradoxical image of the Golden State as a site of dreams and disenchantment, formidable beginnings and ruinous ends. This History encompasses the prismatic nature of California by exploring a variety of historical periods, litera…
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Overture -- Chapter 2: Celebration and Lamentation -- Chapter 3: Sympathy with Intelligence -- Chapter 4: Concord Reflections -- Chapter 5: Transforming Perception -- Chapter 6: Ethics and the Wild -- C…
Jordan Cofer examines the influence of the Bible upon Flannery O'Connor's fiction. While there are many studies exploring how her Catholicism affected her fiction, this book argues that O'Connor is heavily influenced by the Bible itself. Specifically, it explicates the largely u…
"The first three decades of the twentieth century saw the largest period of immigration in U.S. history. This immigration, however, was accompanied by legal segregation, racial exclusionism, and questions of residents' national loyalty and commitment to a shared set of "American…
The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning--and its powerful eloquence continues to be felt even today. In this book, acclaimed biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways th…
Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Born there': Faulkner, Oxford, and Lafayette County Philip Weinstein; 2. Primeval, goddam, and beyond: on Mississippi Robert Jackson; 3. A gulf society Matthew Pratt Guterl; 4. William Faulkner's Caribbean poetics Vale;rie Loichot; 5. What wa…
David Foster Wallace is invariably seen as an emphatically American figure. Lucas Thompson challenges this consensus, arguing that Wallace's investments in various international literary traditions are central to both his artistic practice and his critique of US culture. Thompso…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Faun with a Typewriter -- Chapter 1. The Devil at Park Church -- Chapter 2. Dearest of All Lovers -- Chapter 3. A Village Apollo -- Chapter 4. The Flea from Tangier -- Chapter 5. We Were Beautiful Gods -- Cha…
"Max Eastman (1883-1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this masterful work, acclaimed biographer Christoph Irmscher was granted unprecedented access to the Eastman family archive, allowing him to…
So many biographical works exist on the Beat Generation, which are of course important, but scholars tend to neglect the most fascinating aspects of their literary texts. "The Green Ghost" seeks to steer the study of Burroughs and the beats into a new direction entirely by viewi…
Machine generated contents note: 1. America enters the War; 2. American intervention in the First World War: poetry as an ideological form; 3. 'Devotions loyal even to death': Alan Seeger, asceticism, Medievalism, and the martial ideal; 4. 'Dulce et Decorum': Edith Wharton's Gre…
Dismembering the American Dream offers a detailed study of the novels and stories of Richard Yates, fiction which examined mid-twentieth century middle-class American life. Since his death in Alabama in 1992, the work of American writer Richard Yates has enjoyed a renaissance, c…
