Product Description: This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of 'region' in theme and form...read more

Product Description: Underscoring the essential skills of reading and writing in multiple fields of knowledge, Crosscurrents is a thematic reader that connects ideas and texts from across the disciplines. With its rich variety of readings that span the major college disciplines, Crosscurrents is a true writing across the curriculum reader...read more

Product Description: Underscoring the essential skills of reading and writing in multiple fields of knowledge, Crosscurrents is a thematic reader that connects ideas and texts from across the disciplines. With its rich variety of readings that span the major college disciplines, Crosscurrents is a true writing across the curriculum reader...read more

Product Description: This volume of the Critical Insights series opens with a reflection of Poe's aesthetics, and offers a consideration of Poe's distinctive contribution to American poetry. Other essays contextualize Poe's invocation of the exotic in poems such as "Tamerlane," "Al Aaraaf" "Ulalume," and "The Raven" against nineteenth-century travel narratives, analyze Poe's poetics of memory and grief and discuss Poe's influence on other major poets such as Baudelaire, Frances Osgood, and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning...read more

Product Description: This title includes in-depth critical discussions of Edgar Allan Poe's work. This is a collection of sixteen essays by leading scholars examining the short stories and life of the 19th century American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Representing the best of a broad range of critical perspectives from the psychoanalytical to the postcolonial, the volume serves as an excellent introduction to Poe's tales and the critical conversation surrounding them...read more

Product Description: A review of historiographic theory from the Enlightenment to the 19th century using M.M Bakhtin's theory of novelistic discourse to explore how histographic models are incorporated in the works of James Fenimore Cooper, William Gilmore Simms, Lydia Maria Child and Nathaniel Hawthorne...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)