Books in the Studies in English and American Literature and Culture series

New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for the scholar and the general reader.

New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and philosophical writer.

An investigation of the phenomenon of the framed formal center in literature of the last 180 years, illuminating both the works and correspondences among works of different genres, periods, and nations.

The first study of the literary criticism on Murdoch's novels.

The first detailed study of a major but neglected work by Thoreau.

A study that must be read by all scholars and students of Joyce.

Analysis of Whitman's reflection of civil rights legislation in his work, 1865-1876.

The first full-length study of the reception of Wordsworth's poetry and theory.

A history of the most important scholarly criticism of Emerson from his time down to the present.