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New Essays On 'Daisy Miller' And 'The Turn Of The Screw'

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 The introduction to this 1993 volume places James's fiction in the context of the family that conditioned his concern with the sexual politics of intimate experience. The essays that follow demonstrate the continuing appeal of his fiction through an analysis of two of his most widely read tales.
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New Essays On 'The House Of Mirth'

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 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.
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New Essays On 'The Scarlet Letter'

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 The interpretative essays in this volume places The Scarlet Letter in a specific historical and cultural context. Some of the issues and topics discussed here are the convention of romance, pervasive metaphor of sexuality and the tension between Hawthorne's Puritan setting and his Romantic language.
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New Essays On Go Down, Moses

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 Go Down, Moses(1942) came to fruition during the Second World War, was written during one of Faulkner's most traumatic periods, and has fallen to critical neglect amid the vast scholarship on the great Southern writer. The five essays assembled here explore the tensions of race and gender apparent throughout the novel.
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New Essays On 'Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'

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 The essays in this volume represent a wide range of approaches to one of the most popular of all American novels, Huckleberry Finn. Some of the topics and issues discussed are romanticism versus realism, Twain's use of the vernacular and how humour is used throughout the book.
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New Essays On Billy Budd

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 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.
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New Essays On Light In August

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 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.
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New Essays On The Awakening

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 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.
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New Essays On Moby-Dick

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 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.
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New Essays On Native Son

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 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.
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New Essays On The Catcher In The Rye

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 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.
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New Essays On Wise Blood

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 This 1995 volume of critical essays on Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor's explosive first novel, not only questions our understanding of the 'Southern Gothic' but launches a new inquiry into the nature and history of O'Connor's critical reputation.
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New Essays On Seize The Day

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 This 1999 book provides a multifaceted introduction to Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow's most widely read, respected, and taught work of fiction, Seize the Day. The essays examine the thematic, stylistic, and critical elements of Bellow's masterpiece and offer different approaches to how the novel may or may not be thought of as 'ethnic'.
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New Essays On Song Of Solomon

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 The essays collected in this volume, first published in 1995, are written by leading critics of Toni Morrison's work and exemplify the theoretical and cultural perspectives that have been brought to bear upon African American texts in general and upon Song of Solomon in particular.
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New Essays On The Rise Of Silas Lapham

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 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.
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New Essays On Light In August

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 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.
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New Essays On A Farewell To Arms

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 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.
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New Essays On Invisible Man

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 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.
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New Essays On Their Eyes Were Watching God

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 The collection offers suggestive means by which to approach Hurston's compelling exploration of a black woman's extended search for self and community.
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New Essays On The Crying Of Lot 49

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 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.
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New Essays On Go Tell It On The Mountain

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 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.
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New Essays On The Sound And The Fury

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 Offers a series of essays on "The Sound and the Fury", William Faulkner's novel about the decline of the American South. The contributors include Richard Godden, Donald M. Kartiganer, Noel Polk and Dawn Trouard.
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New Essays On 'The House Of Mirth'

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 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.
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New Essays On Call It Sleep

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 Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, has been finally hailed as one of the finest Jewish-American modernist novels. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, modernism, and canonisation.
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