Product Description: The Human Condition is complicated: Irony is one element of that condition. "Off with his head; off with his head! What a dream that was - back in some medieval period - someone wanting my head - someone wanting to be entertained by my demise - someone wanting my blood - well it was not much different than the current state of my reality - such as it is...read more

Product Description: John McWilliams' book is an ambitious attempt to review New England history and literature from the Puritans through the Revolutionary period to the antebellum era. McWilliams demonstrates how successive narratives of crises, real or imagined, reflected historical realities which proved adaptable to later settlers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Book by McWilliams, John P. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book considers the portrayal of the American national character in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. It examines Hawthorne's abiding concern with the development of New England from colony to province to republic, and analyses Melville's changing evocation of 'the new American', and the difficulties he faced in sustaining his heady nationalistic faith...read more

Product Description: This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995...read more

Product Description: Book by Smith, Carl S., McWilliams, John P.