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The hero of John Updike's most popular and critically acclaimed novel is a middle-class American who isn't 'especially beautiful or bright or urban.' The essays in this collection examine the technical mastery and thematic range that make this work an enduring achievement in modern American fiction.

The four essays in this 1991 volume not only touch on long-established approaches to Sister Carrie but also reflect a number of the concerns of scholarly and critical movements.

This volume addresses the established reputation of The Education of Henry Adams as a classic work of American autobiography and canonical work of American literature. It is a remarkably coherent collection that explains in original ways the continuing importance of The Education of Henry Adams as literature and history.

In the introduction to this collection of essays, the editor discusses the background and critical reception of "The Crying of Lot 49". Further essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical and scientific contexts.

The collection offers suggestive means by which to approach Hurston's compelling exploration of a black woman's extended search for self and community.

A collection of essays traces the history of the novel's reception - stressing the revolutionary qualities that have only now begun to be understood - through sixty years after its publication. A collection of essays traces the history of the novel's reception - stressing the revolutionary qualities that have only now begun to be understood - through sixty years after its publication.

This collection of essays on Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the value of Jewett's work, but goes beyond previously published studies by offering an analysis of how race, nationalism, and the literary marketplace shape her narrative.

A review of Thoreau's classic from four important contemporary perspectives - promotional, ecological, philosophical, and literary - is prefaced by a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.

This collection of essays on Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the value of Jewett's work, but goes beyond previously published studies by offering an analysis of how race, nationalism, and the literary marketplace shape her narrative.

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, a story told by a single Afro-American voice, encompasses much of the American scene and character. This collection of critical essays, bringing together the best of recent scholarship, provides students with a useful introduction to this major novel.

Light in August (1932) is one of William Faulkner's most important widely studied novels, demanding to be approached from many angles and with a variety of critical and scholarly skills. Here five distinguished critics offer such a range of approaches, making the novel accessible to the widest possible audience.

The American (1877) was written the very year Henry James committed himself to making his way as an author outside America. It thus formed part of the brief that James had to draw up both for and against his countrymen. This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects of the novel.

In this volume, deeper levels of meaning in James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans are studied by tracking critical responses to the novel from its publication in 1826 to the present and reassessing them from a variety of critical perspectives.

The introduction and four scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading this work.

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays, first published in 1991, argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as a social force as well as a literary form.

Light in August (1932) is one of William Faulkner's most important widely studied novels, demanding to be approached from many angles and with a variety of critical and scholarly skills. Here five distinguished critics offer such a range of approaches, making the novel accessible to the widest possible audience.

Winesburg is reconsidered - in the contexts of the expressionist movement, the American-boy book tradition, the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, and the rise of industrial capitalism - sixty years after its original publication.

Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The essays in this volume set out to provide a critical and historical interpretation of the novel that reflects the best of recent scholarship.

Kate Chopin's The Awakening was one of the first American novels to concern itself with adultery and divorce. These essays explore its central themes, including the heroine's evolution from a role of traditional femininity to one of autonomous individualism, and discuss Chopin's status as a pre-modernist writer.

Five essays focus on various aspects of the novel from its ideology within the context of the Cold War and its portrait of a particular American subculture to its account of patterns of adolescent crisis and its rich and complex narrative structure.

New Essays on Native Son provides original insights into this major American novel by Richard Wright. Following an introductory essay by the editor on the conception, composition and reception of the novel, four leading Afro-Americanists examine various aspects of this classic fictional account of violent life and death in a racist society.

The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. In Moby-Dick, this collection of essays focuses on various aspects of the novel: its vision of nature, social alienation, religious defiance and its splendid variety of language. This book is specifically designed for undergraduates.

The scholars in this collection posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide elucidating approaches to James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain.

In the introduction to this collection of essays, the editor discusses the background and critical reception of "The Crying of Lot 49". Further essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical and scientific contexts.

The House of Mirth topped the bestseller list for four months and sealed Edith Wharton's reputation as one of the major English-language fiction writers of her generation. Each of the four articles collected in this volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's seminal work.

The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925, through its increasing popularity in the 1940s, to its critical and popular elevation from the standing of an important 'period piece' to that of an undisputed classic of American literature.

Billy Budd is Herman Melville's most read work after Moby-Dick. Melville wrote the novella during the 5 years before his death, and it was published posthumously in 1924. The essays collected here provide a multifaceted introduction to the work.

The four essays in this 1991 volume not only touch on long-established approaches to Sister Carrie but also reflect a number of the concerns of scholarly and critical movements.

The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions of both fiction and journalism to create a uniquely 'disruptive' prose style. The five essays that follow each explore different aspects of the novel.

My Antonia is undoubtedly Willa Cather's most famous novel. The essays in this volume place the novel in the context of American literary history, African-American music, and Southern writing, and offer illuminating ways of reading Cather's best-known work.