Books by Harold Kaplan

Originally published under title: The passive voice: an approach to modern fiction. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1966.

In The Solipsism of Modern Fiction, Harold Kaplan deals with the problem of action and its adequate motive in the modern novel

This book illustrates the interplay between democratic assumptions and literary performance in the America's classic 19th-century writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Cooper, Poe, Whitman, Twain, and James. Harold Kaplan suggests that these major figures' works are linked by the myths of genesis of a new political culture.

The naturalist tradition in American fiction was a product of the tremendous changes wrought in late nineteenth-century America by the development of science and technology and by the intellectual upheavals associated with the ideas of Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. This book gives an account of naturalism.

A salient feature of modern poetics is its connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. This work offers a comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets.