The Crying of Lot 49 is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desi...

A collection of essays providing a multifaceted introduction to Herman Melville's Billy Budd.

'The American Novel' series provides students of American literature with introductory critical g...

These interpretative essays explore different topics and issues in the context of history and cul...

Four essays which use new approaches to explore this familiar work of a 'classic' American author.

A collection of critical essays on James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain.

These original new essays reconsider Winesburg, Ohio is in several contexts.

Go Down, Moses (1942) came to fruition during World War II, was written during one of Faulkner's ...

This series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the gre...

Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, givi...

A collection of essays on Willa Cather's most famous novel, My Antonia.

Still John Updike's most popular and critically acclaimed novel, Rabbit Run introduced the charac...