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White Collar Fictions
In White Collar Fictions Christopher P. Wilson explores how turn-of-the-century literary representations of "white collar" Americans--the "middle" social strata H.L. Mencken dismissed as boobus Americanus--were actually part and parcel of a new social class coming to terms with its own power, authority, and contradictions. An innovative study that integrates literary analysis with social-history research, the book reexamines the life and work of Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis--as well as such nearly forgotten authors as O. Henry, Edna Ferber, Robert Grant, and Elmer Rice. Between 1885 and 1925 America underwent fundamental social changes. The family business faded with the rise of the ...
‘Reshaping Shakespeare’ and Later Literary Essays
Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University, gathers here seventeen of his literary essays which were previously published in a diversity of locations. The authors discussed include: Shakespeare, Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper, Maupassant, Kipling, O. Henry, Anthony Hope, Conan Doyle, John Buchan, John Galsworthy, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce and Graham Greene.
American and British Writers in Mexico, 1556-1973
American and British Writers in Mexico is the study that laid the foundation upon which subsequent examinations of Mexico’s impact upon American and British letters have built. Chosen by the Mexican government to be placed, in translation, in its public libraries, the book was also referenced by Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz in an article in the New Yorker, “Reflections—Mexico and the United States.” Drewey Wayne Gunn demonstrates how Mexican experiences had a singular impact upon the development of English writers, beginning with early British explorers who recorded their impressions for Hakluyt’s Voyages, through the American Beats, who sought to escape the strictures of American cu...
Mencken
Here is the definitive biography of Mencken, the most illuminating book ever published about this giant of American letters. We see the prominent role he played in the Scopes Monkey Trial, his long crusade against Prohibition, his fierce battles against press censorship, and his constant exposure of pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining the shape of American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes.
Faulkner at 100
William Faulkner was born September 25, 1897. In honor of his centenary the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference of 1997 brought together twenty-five of the most important Faulkner scholars to examine the achievement of this writer generally regarded as the finest American novelist of the twentieth century. The essays and panel discussions that make up Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect provide a comprehensive account of the man and his work, including discussions of his life, the shape of his career, and his place in American literature, as well as fresh readings of such novels as The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, and Go Down, Moses. What emerges from this commemorative volume is a plural Faulkner, a writer of different value and meaning to different readers, a writer still challenging readers to accommodate their highly varied approaches to what André Bleikasten calls Faulkner's abiding “singularity.”
Diamond Jim Brady
Praise for H. Paul Jeffers An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of GroverCleveland "A well-written and timely book that reminds us of GroverCleveland?s courage, commitment, and honesty at a time when thesequalities seem so lacking in so much of American politics." ?JamesMacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National BookAward Colonel Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Goes to War, 1879-1898 "A handsome narrative of a crucial period in the career of one ofour country?s most colorful politicians." ?Publishers Weekly Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the NewYork City Police, 1895-1897 "A lively, entertaining, and well-researched portrait of a zealousreformer during the historic crusade that successfully launched hiscareer in government." ?Publishers Weekly
Provisions
"This valuable collection . . . should shift the ground of discourse on mid-19th-century American literature." —Publishers Weekly This unique collection has recovered for us the work of sixteen women who wrote during the years when American writers were developing their distinctive styles and voices.
The War Within
The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "New South Creed" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within, Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between t
New and Improved
As the Victorian era drew to a close, women began moving out of the home and into a public realm long claimed by men. Drawing on diaries, letters, and memoirs of women from a wide range of backgrounds and geographic regions, this volume offers insights into middle-class women's experiences of American culture in the transition between the Victorian era and 20th-century modern life. Photos.
Our Conrad
Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its place in the world. Peter Mallios reveals the historical and political factors that made Conrad's work valuable to a range of prominent figures—including Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Richard Wright, Woodrow Wilson, and Theodore and Edith Roosevelt—and explores regional differences in Conrad's reception. He proves that foreign-authored writing can be as integral a part of United States culture as that of any native. Arguing that an individual writer's apparent (national, gendered, racial, political) identity is not always a good predictor of the diversity of voices and dialogues to which he gives rise, this exercise in transnational comparativism participates in post-Americanist efforts to render American Studies less insular and parochial.
