The idea of place--any place--remains one of our most basic yet slippery concepts. It is a space with boundaries whose limits may be definite or indefinite; it can be a real location or an abstract mental, spiritual, or imaginary construction. Casey Clabough's thorough examinati…
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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) led a colorful life, travelling throughout the United States and Europe, becoming a literary star whose work was published in the premier magazines of her day. She wrote critically acclaimed novels, short stories, and poetry before her myst…
In recent years Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) has been fictionalized at least three times, perhaps most notably in Colm Tóibín's award-winning work The Master, a novelization of the life of Woolson's close friend Henry James. But Woolson was a literary star in her own r…
In recent years Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) has been fictionalized at least three times, perhaps most notably in Colm Tóibín's award-winning work The Master, a novelization of the life of Woolson's close friend Henry James. But Woolson was a literary star in her own r…
F. Scott Fitzgerald in context
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Male Call: Becoming Jack London
by Project Muse, Auerbach, Jonathan
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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…
"Academic treatments of Henry Miller's works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer in literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Miller's oeuvre. Since these books appeared, a new generation …
A study of post-1980 US and Caribbean literary responses to legal personhood. Analyzes literature by Francisco Goldman, Edwidge Danticat, Rosario Ferre, Gayl Jones, and John Edgar Wideman, which depict the legal slave as a generative legal category for labor, immigration, and hu…
Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. Trained as a doctor at Columbia University, he contracted tuberculosis during his internship as a pathologist at Bellevue Hospital and spent the next three years recovering, primarily in TB sanito…
Atlas Shrugged: The Mind on Strike (1943-1957)Objectivism: A Philosophy for Living on Earth (1957-1982); Appendix: Concerning Biographical Sources; Notes; References; Part II Ethics and Human Nature; 3 The Act of Valuing (and the Objectivity of Values); Living and Valuing in The…
"Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business has contributed to an increase in industrial food production. Amid this change, policymakers and c…
