Books by William E. Cain

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

F.O. Matthiessen remains one of America's leading twentieth-century critics in part because the problems he and his contemporaries struggled with remain ours today. William Cain studies Matthiessen's career with careful attention to biographical, institutional, literary, and political contexts.

Three essays by Steven Mailloux, an influential literary critic, theorist, and advocate of cultural studies, are followed by ten essays discussing his ideas in terms of the shift in English departments from textual to cultural studies, especially as it relates to American literature. Mailloux in tu