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For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties.

This comprehensive volume―one of the century's most important books in American studies―extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture.

The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.

For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical…

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work.

Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.
This sourcebook combines accessible commentary with reprinted documents to provide the ideal introduction to this widely debated novel. The editors offer:

* extensive coverage of the contexts to the work, including biographical information on Chopin and the social and historical backgrounds to her writing
* an outline of the critical reception of the novel from the early reviews to contemporary debates, and extracts from influential essays
* selected chapters of the original text, reproduced with extensive commentary on key issues and suggestions on links with contextual and critical materials
* a guide to further reading, ideal for extended independent study.

Providing all the tools for engaged, informed individual analysis of the text, this sourcebook will greatly enrich any reading of The Awakening. It is an essential starting point for students of American literature and women's writing, or for anyone fascinated by Chopin's controversial work.

Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an…

The literature on Nathanael West by this time is larger, no doubt, than his entire output—less than 450 pages in the one-volume complete edition. Yet West’s four short novels, all written in the 1930s and surrounded by his reputation as a Holly­wood script writer, continue to fascinate readers, who still look for sign and symbol of the books’ importance.



Irving Malin, a frequent contributor to this series, has taken a new approach to West’s novels. Rather than an examina­tion of sources, his new book provides, for the first time, a chronological, chapter-by-chapter examination of the novels. This detailed textual explication shows the novels’ designs, which create their powerful effects by the accumulation of significant recurring details.
About the Author

The literature on Nathanael West by this time is larger, no doubt, than his entire output—less than 450 pages in the one-volume complete edition. Yet West’s four short novels, all…

Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett – The Stoic Comedians

First published in 1930, the author provides a tour of the novel from its birth to his own time, including the works of Flaubert and Conrad.

Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S. Eliot. Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that became known as the 'New Criticism'. Highly controversial when first published, Principles of Literary Criticism remains a work which no one with a serious interest in literature can afford to ignore.

Ivor Armstrong Richards was one of the founders of modern literary criticism. He enthused a generation of writers and readers and was an influential supporter of the young T.S.…

Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to establish the status of writings by such authors as Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper and Whitman, Lawrence himself has created a classic work. Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also as a prime example of Lawrence's learning, passion and integrity of judgement.

Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the…

Contents
I. The Argument 1

II. The Fabricated Personality
The White Peacock 16

III. An Allegory of Self
The Trespasser 42

IV. Self-Encounter and the Unknown Self
Sons and Lovers 62

V. Symbolic Transformation and the Impersonal "I"
The Rainbow 106

VI. Dissolution and Reassertion
Women in Love 151

VII. The Leadership Motif
Aaron's Rod, Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent 198

VIII. The Search for Limits
Lady Chatterley's Lover 223

Bibliography 251

Contents
I. The Argument 1

II. The Fabricated Personality
The White Peacock 16

III. An Allegory of Self
The Trespasser 42

IV. Self-Encounter and the…

"Lyrical Ballads" (1798-1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's and Coleridge's other major poems were central to the Romantic period and remain classic texts in our own time. Wordsworth focuses on 'the essential passions of the heart' and achieves a penetrating insight into love and death, solitude and community. Coleridge explores a more fantastic and dreamlike imagination and also writes poems of quiet conversational meditation.

Both poets look with a fresh and visionary eye at the human and the natural world. They examine the condition of men and women at the extreme edge of society; they are also subtle analysts of their own minds and the processes of introspection and memory. This volume contains all of "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) with Wordsworth's "Preface" of 1800/1802, and a wide-ranging selection of both poets' other work, including virtually all of their best-known and most discussed shorter poems.
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"Lyrical Ballads" (1798-1800) constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject matter and its anti-conventional language. Those volumes and Wordsworth's…

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life, which was published soon after he died. It offers fascinating insights into his complex, enigmatic character. This, the first volume, appeared in 1928 and includes the publication of Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) worked with his second wife, Florence, on this account of his life, which was published soon after he died. It offers fascinating insights into his…

Текстологически выверенное издание первой и основополагающей работы одного из классиков отечественной и мировой гуманитарной науки XX века В.Я.Проппа.

The Art of Fiction is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This publication is a professional scan from an original edition of the book, and of the best possible quality. This popular classic work by Henry James is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Henry James then we highly recommend this publication for your reading enjoyment.

The Art of Fiction is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This publication is a professional scan from an original edition of the book, and of the best possible…

Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De Quincey’s autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.

Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord…