In this section are the 298 literary criticism titles that on our shelves and catalogued as of April 14, 2008, at Ray Boas, Bookseller in Walpole, New Hampshire. Some definitive works, and scholarly works here. Do take some time browsing, or you may wish to use the find function of your browser to search for the person or topic you seek. To order, just make a note of the Order No(s) you would like, and you can place an order at any time, Thank you, RAY
1. Aaron, Daniel, AMERICAN NOTES: SELECTED ESSAYS, Northeastern University Pr., Boston, MA, (1994) 1st ptg, 330pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1555531954 This first collection of Aaron's influential writings focuses on American novels, poems, biographies, and auto biographies that are viewed largely as cultural artifacts., (Order No: 26241 ), $9.50
2. Aden, John M., POPE'S ONCE AND FUTURE KINGS: SATIRE AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY CAREER, Univ. of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN, (1978) 1st ed, 218pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0870492527 This volume examines Pope's early literary career in terms of the evidence of a steadfast commitment to satire and politics., (Order No: 45093 ), $5.00
3. Adler, Joyce Sparer, WAR IN MELVILLE'S IMAGINATION, New York University Press, New York, (1981), 189pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0814705758 This volume follows the war-or-peace theme through ten of Melville's long works., (Order No: 27664 ), $6.00
4. Aldridge, John W., THE AMERICAN NOVEL AND THE WAY WE LIVE NOW, Oxford University Press, New York, 1983, 166pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195031989 Aldridge probes the work of some of America's best-known novelists--Joseph Heller, William Styron, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, and Thomas Pynchon among them--in a fascinating search for the connections between the realities of contemporary life and the way those realities are dramatized--or, as is more often the case, not dramatized--in current fiction., (Order No: 22045 ), $9.50
5. Aldridge, John W., TALENTS AND TECHNICIANS: LITERARY CHIC AND THE NEW ASSEMBLY-LINE FICTION, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, (1992) 1st ptg, 162pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) review press release, ISBN 0684187892 Focusing on the current crop of young writers, many of whose reputations were made in a whirl of 1980s media hype, Aldridge determines who will likely survive the test of future critical scrutiny and what they have to say about our world., (Order No: 22046 ), $8.00
6. Altick, Richard D., WRITERS, READERS, AND OCCASIONS: SELECTED ESSAYS ON VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND LIFE, Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, (1989) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 358pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814204597 These essays comprise an abundant harvest for anyone interested in Victorian literature, social history, and culture, and connections among them., (Order No: 27928 ), $12.50
7. Amarasinghe, Upali, DRYDEN AND POPE IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY: A STUDY OF CHANGING LITERARY TASTE, 1800-1830, Cambridge University Press, London, 1962, 244pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Dr. Amarasinghe's book studies the main plank in the platform of the old attitudes: respect for the poetry of Dryden and Pope and the associated values., (Order No: 44994 ), $25.00
8. Anderer, Paul, OTHER WORLDS: ARISHIMA TAKEO AND THE BOUNDS OF MODERN JAPANESE FICTION, Columbia University Press, New York, 1984, 152pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231058845 This book is a haunting study of place--or more fittingly the absence of it--in Arishima's fiction, and of a literary daring which traces the bounds of fictional activity in modern Japan., (Order No: 37929 ), $8.50
9. Archambeau, Robert (edited by), WORD PLAY PLACE: ESSAYS ON THE POETRY OF JOHN MATTHIAS, Swallow Press, Athens, OH, (1998) 1st ptg, 248pp, fine w/fine dustjacket, review press release laid in, This volume introduces the work of this significant American poet to readers previously unfamiliar with it and enriches the reading of those who have long admired it., (Order No: 24297 ), $20.00
10. Atkins, Stuart Pratt, THE TESTAMENT OF WERTHER IN POETRY AND DRAMA, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1949 1st ed, 322pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author traces the story of Werther to the present day, and shows how the interpretation of Werther reflects both literary and popular notoriety and tireless critical efforts ranging from simple ridicule of the aberrations of enthusiastic or hostile readers to analysis of sources, cultural-historical implications, or aesthetic values., (Order No: 45163 ), $22.50
11. Atkinson, Geoffroy and Keller, Abraham C., PRELUDE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT: FRENCH LITERATURE, 1690-1740, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, (1970), B&W frontis, 221pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume recreates for the modern reader the intellectual atmosphere of France during this period. The authors examine attitudes toward literature and literary questions, changing approaches to reality, and the influence of foreign travel, especially to England, in broadening Frenchmen's horizons., (Order No: 28485 ), $8.50
12. Augustinos, Olga, FRENCH ODYSSEYS: GREECE IN FRENCH TRAVEL LITERATURE FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ROMANTIC ERA, Johns Hopkins University Pr., Baltimore, MD, (1994), B&W frontis, 346pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801846161 Augustinos offers the first comprehensive treatment of French travel literature about Greece--from the mid-sixteenth-century arrival of the first French travelers to the outbreak of the Greek revolution in 1821., (Order No: 48646 ), $12.50
13. Bailey, Elmer James, THE NOVELS OF GEORGE MEREDITH: A STUDY, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1907 1st ed, B&W frontis, 226pp, good+, dark green cloth, teg (hardcover), (Order No: 25503 ), $15.00
14. Baker, Robert S., THE DARK HISTORIC PAGE: SOCIAL SATIRE AND HISTORICISM IN THE NOVELS OF ALDOUS HUXLEY, 1921-1939, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, (1982) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 250pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0299089401 The author traces the complex development of Aldous Huxley's concepts of history, theory of romanticism, and views of art history during the 1920s and 1930s., (Order No: 25983 ), $14.50
15. Banerjee, Maria Nemcova, TERMINAL PARADOX: THE NOVELS OF MILAN KUNDERA, Grove Weidenfeld, New York, (1990) 1st ed, 294pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0802111270 The first full-length study of Kundera's work, from his extraordinary first novel, THE JOKE, through the brilliant and varied books that followed- -LAUGHABLE LOVES, LIFE IS ELSEWHERE, THE FAREWELL PARTY, THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING, and THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING., (Order No: 15258 ), $7.50
16. Barksdale, E. C., THE DACHA AND THE DUCHESS, Philosophical Library, New York, (1974), B&W diagrams, 144pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), An application of Levi-Strauss's theory of myth in human creativity to works of nineteenth-century Russian novelists., (Order No: 26527 ), $10.00
17. Barthelme, Donald, AMATEURS, Routledge & Kegal Paul, London, (1977), 184pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 071008742X Series of short sketches., (Order No: 35689 ), $8.00
18. Bawer, Bruce, DIMINISHING FICTIONS: ESSAYS ON THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL AND ITS CRITICS, Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN, (1988) 1st ptg, 336pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) couple underlinings, ISBN 1555971091 Essays in which Bawer considers some of the most significant modern and contemporary novels and literary issues, placing them in the context of art and culture., (Order No: 38136 ), $7.50
19. Bellringer, Alan W. and Jones, C. B. (editors), THE VICTORIAN SAGES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE, Dent, London, (1975), 241pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874715539 This anthology aims to dispel the image of the Victorian age as one of conservatism, stability and certainty by showing that the Victorians were struggling with the same problems that confront us today, and with no less urgency and commitment., (Order No: 14684 ), $14.50
20. Berke, Roberta, BOUNDS OUT OF BOUNDS: A COMPASS FOR RECENT AMERICAN AND BRITISH POETRY, Oxford University Press, New York, 1981, 203pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) some spotting on cloth covers, ISBN 0195028724 In this lively survey of American and British poetry from 1950 to the present, prizewinning poet Roberta Berke presents perceptive guidelines for understanding contemporary poetry., (Order No: 39078 ), $7.50
21. Berry, Reginald, A POPE CHRONOLOGY, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, MA, (1988), 221pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 081618951X This volume outlines the important events in the poet's personal and professional life by extracting facts and clues from a fascinating array of documents including letters, journals, and the most recent scholarship., (Order No: 45087 ), $5.00
22. Birkerts, Sven, AMERICAN ENERGIES: ESSAYS ON FICTION, William Morrow and Company, New York, (1992) 1st ed, 415pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0688106129 In these essays, Birkerts evaluates the postmodern literary scene and the effect the media, especially television, have had on the way we think and write., (Order No: 34406 ), $8.50
23. Birkerts, Sven (edited by), TOLSTOY'S DICTAPHONE - TECHNOLOGY AND THE MUSE, Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN, (1996) 1st ptg, 261pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1555972489 A number of literary writers relate to the editor how they were reacting to technological innovations of our day., (Order No: 50368 ), $5.00
24. Blackall, Eric A., GOETHE AND THE NOVEL, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1976), 340pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801409780 The author defines Goethe's achievement as a novelist. At the same time, he assesses Goethe's views on the novel as a form, both in relation to its development during his lifetime and to the ways in which his own novels broadened and transcended the genre., (Order No: 16393 ), $12.00
25. Blagoy, Dmitry, THE SACRED LYRE: ESSAYS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN, Raduga Publishers, Moscow, (1982), 421pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), The author traces Pushkin's connection with the advanced ideas of his time and gives a comprehensive picture of Pushkin's life and his relationships with his friends and his contemporaries, disclosing the causes of his tragic end. The author establishes the connection between Pushkin's heritage and the subsequent development of Russian literature., (Order No: 14061 ), $7.50
26. Blocksidge, Martin, THE SACRED WEAPON: AN INTRODUCTION TO POPE'S SATIRE, The Book Guild Ltd., Sussex, UK, (1993), 236pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 086332830X This study presents a scholarly analysis of Pope's major satirical works, and familiarizes the reader with the purposes of eighteenth century poetry--some of which tend towards the lewd and defamatory., (Order No: 44993 ), $20.00
27. Bloom, Clive (edited by), GOTHIC HORROR: A READER'S GUIDE FROM POE TO KING AND BEYOND, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1998), 302pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312212380 This anthology presents classic and contemporary accounts of modern gothic horror writing from Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Rober Bloch, Stephen King, Clive Barker and many other authors, as well as essays from current literary scholars, providing an essential guide to the genre and the variety of approaches possible when discussing the literature of terror., (Order No: 38624 ), $30.00
28. Blythe, Ronald (selected by), THE PLEASURES OF DIARIES: FOUR CENTURIES OF PRIVATE WRITING, Pantheon Books, New York, (1989) 1st Amer, B&W illustrations, 388pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0394580176 The author tempts us with a selection of passages spanning four centuries of self-examination, self-explanation, and self-presentation., (Order No: 33221 ), $7.50
29. Bolton, Jonathan, PERSONAL LANDSCAPES: BRITISH POETS IN EGYPT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1997) 1st ed, 187pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312173504 The work of British writers living abroad during World War II is the focus of this intriguing volume from Jonathan Bolton., (Order No: 35298 ), $12.50
30. Bonadeo, Alfredo, MARK OF THE BEAST: DEATH AND DEGRADATION IN THE LITERATURE OF THE GREAT WAR, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, (1989), 172pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813116805 This study provides a detailed analysis of two basic themes-death and degradation-that mark the literature about The First World War., (Order No: 13725 ), $10.00
31. Bowen, Elizabeth (preface by) and Ryan, A. P. (edited by), CRITICS WHO HAVE INFLUENCED TASTE, Geoffrey Bles Limited Pub., London, (1965), 97pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), This book comprises a series of twenty-four chapters by well-known writers on critics of the past, from Ben Jonson to D.H. Lawrence., (Order No: 18067 ), $8.50
32. Boys, Richard C., SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE AND THE WITS, Octagon Books, New York, 1969, 152pp, fine, maroon cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), A Study of "Commentary Verses on the Author of the Two Arthurs and the Satyr against Wit" (1700). Originally published in 1949 by the University of Michigan., (Order No: 16207 ), $8.00
33. Branscombe, Peter (edited by), AUSTRIAN LIFE AND LITERATURE 1780-1938: EIGHT ESSAYS, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1978 1st ed, 93pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), This collection of eight essays covers aspects of Austrian life and literature from the time of Joseph II at the end of the 18th century up to the end of the First Republic., (Order No: 11465 ), $12.00
34. Brewer, Wilmon, SHAKESPEARE'S INFLUENCE ON SIR WALTER SCOTT, The Cornhill Publishing Co., Boston, MA, (1925), B&W frontis, 508pp, very good, brown cloth, teg (hardcover), The author examines whatever discoverable effect Shakespeare's life and works have had in the life and literary work of Scott., (Order No: 53997 ), $150.00
35. Brown, Laura, ALEXANDER POPE, Basil Blackwell, New York, (1985), 177pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0631135022 Refusing to accept Pope's version of reality, Laura Brown reads his poems not for what they claim to say, but for what they rationalize away or fail to recognize., (Order No: 44995 ), $20.00
36. Brown, William Edward, A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD - VOLUME THREE, Ardis Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, (1986), B&W illustrations, 457pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover) some staining to cloth, Volume 3 only of a 4 volume set. This volume covers Pushkin, Poets of the Zhukovsky School, and the Pushkin Pleiad., (Order No: 50953 ), $25.00
37. Budick, Sanford, DRYDEN AND THE ABYSS OF LIGHT: A STUDY OF RELIGIO LAICI AND THE HIND AND THE PANTHER, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1970, 272pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300013388 Dryden's triumphant response to the threat of religious and aesthetic disintegration which attended the Age of Reason is traced in this study of two works crucial to the poet's canon., (Order No: 44926 ), $20.00
38. Cady, Edwin Harrison and Clark, Harry Hayden, WHITTIER ON WRITERS AND WRITING: THE UNCOLLECTED CRITICAL WRITINGS OF JOHN GREELEAF WHITTIER, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1950), 219pp, good, light green paper covered boards (hardcover), "Anyone who wishes to understand Whittier himself must know these writings.", (Order No: 26979 ), $12.50
39. Cairns, Christopher, ITALIAN LITERATURE: THE DOMINANT THEMES, David & Charles/Barnes&Noble, Newton Abbot/NY, (1977), 189pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0064909212 Using a thematic approach, Dr. Cairns sets significant works in their historical, political and social context., (Order No: 17879 ), $7.50
40. Camden, Carroll (editor) (essays in honor of Alan Dugald McKillop), RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1969) 2nd ptg, B&W illustrations, 435pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0226092151 A volume in the Rice University Semicentennial Series. This collection of critical and historical essays represents a broad spectrum of scholarly opinion on some of the influential figures and works of a vigorous and original age., (Order No: 16287 ), $15.00
41. Candido, Joseph (edited by), VALUE AND VISION IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: LITERARY ESSAYS IN HONOR OF RAY LEWIS WHITE, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, (1999) 1st ptg, 280pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0821412914 This collection of essays in American literature was prepared by friends and colleagues to celebrate the career of Ray Lewis White, who, nurtured in the Appalachian mountains of southwestern Virginia, found his calling in literature and went on to engage generations of others in their own literary pursuits., (Order No: 28891 ), $27.50
42. Caraher, Brian G., WORDSWORTH'S "SLUMBER" AND THE PROBLEMATICS OF READING, Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., University Park, PA, (1991), 280pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0271007206 This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth's "A slumber did my spirit seal," as well as "Strange fits of passion" and "She dwelt among untrodden ways," making a major contribution to an ongoing interpretive debate concerning the first poem and the theoretical issues to which it gives rise., (Order No: 19759 ), $6.00
43. Carrithers, Gale H., MUMFORD, TATE, EISELEY: WATCHERS IN THE NIGHT, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1991) 1st ptg, 304pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807116505 The author looks at three of the century's most distinctive cultural critics--Lewis Mumford, Allen Tate, and Loren Eiseley--and the ways in which they addressed the peculiar problems of latter-day America and Americanized Western culture., (Order No: 28729 ), $10.00
44. Castronovo, David, THE AMERICAN GENTLEMAN: SOCIAL PRESTIGE AND THE MODERN LITERARY MIND, Continuum, New York, (1991), B&W illustrations, 223pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0826405320 In this book, modern American literature itself becomes a prism through which to evaluate social claims, and examine morality and standards of conduct., (Order No: 44273 ), $5.00
45. Chambers, E. K., ENGLISH LITERATURE AT THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES, Oxford at the Clarendon Pr., London, (1961), 248pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) (small nick lower corner), This volume consists of four independent essays, dealing respectively with 'Medieval Drama', 'The Carol and Fifteenth-Century Lyric', and the late Arthurian romance of Sir Thomas Malory., (Order No: 34373 ), $5.00
46. Chandler, Raymond (edited by Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker), RAYMOND CHANDLER SPEAKING, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA, (1962) 2nd ptg, 271pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), "...on the making of detectives, the writing of novels, TV and cats, at ease in the wisest and toughest of letters." This collection of letters constitute an exciting behind-the-scenes view of the writer's world., (Order No: 54314 ), $7.50
47. Cheuse, Alan, LISTENING TO THE PAGE: ADVENTURES IN READING AND WRITING, Columbia University Press, New York, (2001) 1st ptg, 290pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231122705 A lively and wide- ranging selection of Alan Cheuse's best non-fiction., (Order No: 32069 ), $8.50
48. Clark, Arthur Melville, MURDER UNDER TRUST OR THE TOPICAL MACBETH: AND OTHER JACOBEAN MATTERS, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1981, B&W frontis, 195pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0707303125 The author finds Macbeth unique among Shakespeare's plays once he realized that Shakespeare had "treated his Scottish story in a Scottish setting as so mething of a special case requiring special treatment." In addition to examining Macbeth, the author also discusses perplexing facts about the shadowy Shakespeare and his relation to Scotland and other facts about the highly idiosyncratic James VI, his patronage of players and the war it provoked with his clergy, and his achievement of his long-cherished hopes in the Union of the Crowns., (Order No: 13916 ), $8.50
49. Clark, Harry Hayden (edited by), TRANSITIONS IN AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY, Octagon Books, Inc., New York, 1967, 479pp, very good, red cloth (hardcover) pencil underline about 8 pages, First published in 1954. Contents include: The Decline of Puritanism; The Late Eighteenth Century: An Age of Contradictions; The Decline of Neoclassicism, 1801-1848; The Rise of Romanticism, 1805-1855; The Rise of Transcendentalism, 1815-1860; The Decline of Romantic Idealism, 1855-1871; The Rise of Realism, 1871-1891., (Order No: 36068 ), $25.00
50. Clark, L. D., THE MINOAN DISTANCE: THE SYMBOLISM OF TRAVEL IN D. H. LAWRENCE, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, (1980), B&W illustrations, 428pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0816507120 Complemented by margin references to textual sources and richly embellished by LaVerne Harrell Clark's photographs retracing Lawrence's journeys, this volume is both literary criticism and analytical biography--a book for aficionado and dreamer alike., (Order No: 50883 ), $7.50
51. Close, Elizabeth, THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN RUMANIAN - LINGUISTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE IN MUNTENIA 1821-1838, Oxford University Press, London, 1974, 316pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, This book shows how in the 1820s and 1830s a circle of gifted young writers in Buchrest, led by Ion Eliade Radulescu, laid the foundations of the literary Rumanian of today., (Order No: 47241 ), $20.00
52. Cockshut, A. O. J., TRUTH TO LIFE: THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, (1974) 1st Amer, 220pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0151913226 The past two centuries, from Johnson's LIVES OF THE POET'S to Clive's MACAULAY, have been the age of biography. This is the first book to concentrate entirely upon the practice of this art in the nineteenth century., (Order No: 25765 ), $6.50
53. Cohen, Daniel A., PILLARS OF SALT, MONUMENTS OF GRACE: NEW ENGLAND CRIME LITERATURE AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE 1674-1860, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 350pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195075846 Cohen begins with a comprehensive survey of the entire field of crime literature in New England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He then focuses on two highly publicized sexual murders of the nineteenth century that illustrate changing attitudes toward crime and changing patterns of popular literature. Recovering a lost culture of legal romanticism, featuring trial reports, romantic biographies, and fictionalized docudramas, Cohen challenges the conventional assumption that there was a growing split between law and literature during the antebellum period., (Order No: 43838 ), $150.00
54. Colby, Robert A., FICTION WITH A PURPOSE: MAJOR AND MINOR NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELS, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1967), 376pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume examines seven important novels published between 1814 and 1872 in their socio-cultural context. The works studied are WAVERLY, MANSFIELD PARK, OLIVER TWIST, PENDENNIS, VILLETTE, THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, AND MIDDLEMARCH., (Order No: 31645 ), $15.00
55. Colville, Derek, VICTORIAN POETRY AND THE ROMANTIC RELIGION, State Univ. of New York Pr., Albany, NY, (1970), B&W illustrations, 262pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0873950585 This book is a critical introduction to major English poetry of the nineteenth century with an analysis of the changes in subject matter, form, tone, and technique resulting from Romantic influences., (Order No: 52708 ), $10.00
56. Cottrell, Robert D., THE GRAMMAR OF SILENCE: A READING OF MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE'S POETRY, Catholic Univ. of America Pr, Washington, D.C., (1986), 338pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813206154 Beginning with an analysis of the aspects of Christian hermeneutics that underlie mystical literature, this book offers close readings of Marguerite's major poems, studying the ways in which her texts strive to deny their own presence and to reveal the spirit, or Johannine logos. The author demonstrates how Marguerite's poems probe the limits of linguistic performance and the relationship between verbal sign and truth., (Order No: 14393 ), $8.50
57. Cowan, Michael H., CITY OF THE WEST: EMERSON, AMERICA, AND URBAN METAPHOR, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1967, 284pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), "The study of the important role played by urban metaphors in Emerson's dialectical strategy provides new insights into both his literary achievements and the central intellectual tendencies of his period.", (Order No: 8734 ), $15.00
58. Cowley, Malcolm, A SECOND FLOWERING: WORKS AND DAYS OF THE LOST GENERATION, The Viking Press, New York, (1973), B&W illustrations, 276pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0670628263 The author tells the story of his own generation of American writers, still commonly called "Lost," in terms of eight representative figures-Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Wilder, Faulkner, Wolfe, and Hart Crane-all born between 1894 and 1900-each one of whom exerted a strong influence on American writing in his own time and after., (Order No: 12517 ), $3.00
59. Cowley, Malcolm (edited by) (with a preface by Harry T. Moore), AFTER THE GENTEEL TRADITION: AMERICAN WRITERS, 1910-1930, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1964), 210pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), First published in 1937 and now revised and enlarged, this is the complete study of the rebel generation of American writers, comrades-in-arms of H.L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, who appeared after 1910, won their battle for recognition, and dominated the literary scene during the 1920's., (Order No: 16350 ), $20.00
60. Dale, Edmund, NATIONAL LIFE AND CHARACTER IN THE MIRROR OF EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1907, 337pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB w/light markings, Contents include: To about 650 A.D. The Englishman of the Conquest; To about 870 A.D. The Advent and Influence of Christianity; To about 1066 A.D. The Disconcerting Factors; To about 1272 A.D. The Blending of the Races; and, To about 1400 A.D. The Resultant Nation. Signed by the historian Henry Commager - obviously his copy at one time., (Order No: 38300 ), $22.50
61. Daly, Patricia Ellen Martin (edited with commentary by) (foreword by Paula Hooper Mayhew), ENVISIONING THE NEW ADAM: EMPATHIC PORTRAITS OF MEN BY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1995) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 139pp, very good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) with review press release, ISBN 0313290954 An anthology of stories and poems by women., (Order No: 38830 ), $16.50
62. Davis, William V., UNDERSTANDING ROBERT BLY, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, (1988), 182pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0872495906, (Order No: 13560 ), $10.00
63. Dawes, Kwame (edited by), TALK YUH TALK: INTERVIEWS WITH ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN POETS, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (2001), 244pp, fine, light blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0813919452 A book of interviews with Caribbean authors., (Order No: 37882 ), $30.00
64. Dawson, Carl, PROPHETS OF PAST TIME: SEVEN BRITISH AUTOBIOGRAPHERS, 1880-1914, Johns Hopkins University Pr., Baltimore, MD, (1988), 258pp, fine, gray cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0801835879 "This is a book about men in crisis, about middle-aged men looking back on their lives from across that 'deep chasm,' not of war, but of time.", (Order No: 31473 ), $7.50
65. De Rojas, Fernando (Introduccion y edicion critica de Miguel Marciales), CELESTINA TRAGICOMEDIA DE CALISTO Y MELIBEA - TOMO I: INTRODUCCION, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, (1985), 372pp, fine, reddish cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0252012003 Illinois Medieval Monographs I., (Order No: 40519 ), $15.00
66. Deirdre, David, INTELLECTUAL WOMEN AND VICTORIAN PATRIARCHY: HARRIET MARTINEAU, ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, GEORGE ELIOT, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1987), 273pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801494141 Innovative study of three Victorian intellectuals at work., (Order No: 49763 ), $5.00
67. Dellamora, Richard, MASCULINE DESIRE: THE SEXUAL POLITICS OF VICTORIAN AESTHETICISM, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., Chapel Hill, NC, (1990) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 276pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0807842672 Beginning with Tennyson's IN MEMORIAM and continuing by way of Hopkins and Swinburne to the novels of Oscar Wilde and Thomas Hardy, Richard Dellamora draws on journals, letters, censored texts, and pornography to examine the cultural construction of masculinity in Victorian literature., (Order No: 53998 ), $17.50
68. Di Piero, W. S., MEMORY AND ENTHUSIASM: ESSAYS, 1975-1985, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1989), 258pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBM 0691014639, (Order No: 40458 ), $6.00
69. Diekstra, F. N. M., A DIALOGUE BETWEEN REASON AND ADVERSITY: A LATE MIDDLE ENGLISH VERSION OF PETRARCH'S DE REMEDIIS, Van Gorcum & Comp. N.V., Assen, The Netherlands, 1968, 161pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Edited fromm MS. Ii.VI.39 of the University Library, Cambridge with an introduction, notes and glossary and the original Latin text. This work offers a parallel edition of the Latin and English versions. A full critical apparatus discusses the adaptation of Petrarch's treatise to a medieval English audience and considers the nature of the omissions and additions by which the Middle English excerptor turned a consolatio into a contemptus mundi., (Order No: 47859 ), $40.00
70. Doebler, John, SHAKESPEARE'S SPEAKING PICTURES: STUDIES IN ICONIC IMAGERY, Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, (1974) 1st ed, B&W illustrations, 236pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) few closed tears on dj, ISBN 0826303498 This study, focusing on AS YOU LIKE IT, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, RICHARD II, HAMLET, MACBETH, and THE TEMPEST, with an appendix on OTHELLO, is one of the first to examine Shakespeare's stagecraft in the light of iconic stage imagery., (Order No: 31539 ), $12.50
71. Donnegan, James, A NEW GREEK AND ENGLISH LEXICON; PRINCIPALLY ON THE PLAN OF THE GREEK AND GERMAN LEXICON OF SCHNEIDER ..., Printed for J. F. Dove, London, 1831 2nd ed, 1368pp, good++, full calf (hardcover) nice clean and tight copy, "...THE WORDS ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED; DISTINGUISHING SUCH AS ARE POETICAL, OF DIALECTIC VARIETY, OR PECULIAR TO CERTAIN WRITERS AND CLASSES OF WRITERS; WITH EXAMPLES, LITERALLY TRANSLATED, SELECTED FROM THE CLASSICAL WRITERS.", (Order No: 54185 ), $35.00
72. Donoghue, Denis, WE IRISH: ESSAYS ON IRISH LITERATURE AND SOCIETY, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1986 1st ed, 276pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) (spine of dj faded), ISBN 0394554515 Here is a sampling of Donoghue's engagement with his native society., (Order No: 23318 ), $7.50
73. Dorey, T. A. and Leon, Allison, THE NORMAN KINGS: A MEDIEVAL LATIN READER, Kenneth Mason, London, (1964), 84pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) MARGINALIA ABT 3pp, The authors from whom these selections are taken were all alive during the period covered by this book, and in some cases had personal knowledge of the incidents and persons described., (Order No: 47992 ), $30.00
74. Dundes, Alan (edited by), THE WALLED-UP WIFE: A CASEBOOK, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, (1996) 1st ptg, 210pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0299150747 Folklorist Alan Dundes brings together eighteen essays on this classic ballad, each introduced by his headnotes., (Order No: 39819 ), $7.50
75. Ebin, Lois A., ILLUMINATOR MAKAR VATES: VISIONS OF POETRY IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, (1988), 253pp, very good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0803218125 Study of the period between Lydgate (fl. 1410-40) and Skelton (fl. 1483-1528), among the most neglected in English literary history. Throughout the century, the poets of this age refine and extend the vision of the poet as an "enluminer" whose writing enlightens and leads humanity to wisdom, harmony, and political order, and the corresponding style linked with these views., (Order No: 14357 ), $8.00
76. Ellis, George (a new edition revised by J. L. Halliwell), SPECIMENS OF EARLY ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCES, ..., AMS Press, New York, (1968), 600pp, very good, black cloth (hardcover), "... to which is prefixed an historical introduction, on the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England." Reprint of the 1848 edition., (Order No: 52536 ), $20.00
77. Engler, Winfried (translated by Alexander Gode), THE FRENCH NOVEL: FROM EIGHTEEN HUNDRED TO THE PRESENT, Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York, (1969), 286pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), From the "novel of the individual" represented by Stendhal to the "novel of objects" represented by Robbe-Grillet, he shows both what a writer has contributed that is genuinely original and what he has derived from his predecessors. Dr. Engler groups authors who bear comparison according to their use of theme to explore better the changing currents of social and political thought., (Order No: 16492 ), $9.00
78. Faas, Ekbert, RETREAT INTO THE MIND: VICTORIAN POETRY AND THE RISE OF PSYCHIATRY, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1988), 312pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0691067481 Discussing the work of over thirty major and minor poets, the author focuses on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry and rooted in the poetic "science of feelings" (Wordsworth). This broad historical perspective enables Faas to redefine our current terminology regarding the dramatic monologue and to document the extent to which early psychiatry shaped the poetry, poetics, and general frame of mind of the Victorians., (Order No: 13831 ), $10.00
79. Faber, M. D., THE DESIGN WITHIN: PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACHES TO SHAKESPEARE, Science House, New York, 1970, B&W illustrations, 553pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0876680244 The universal themes microscopically examined by eminent psychoanalysts lay bare the deeper insights of Shakespeare., (Order No: 53394 ), $6.00
80. Felker, Christopher D., REINVENTING COTTON MATHER IN THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE: MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA IN HAWTHORNE, STOWE, AND STODDARD, Northeastern University Pr., Boston, MA, (1993) 1st ptg, B&W ill., B&W map, 309pp, very good, maroon cloth (hardcover), ISBN 1555531873 The aim in this work is to show the importance of a Puritan political sentiment that advanced the desire of several American Renaissance writers to address the implications of democracy. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others depended on Cotton Mather's MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA to discover, in their own times, the importance of democratic concepts and categories.", (Order No: 26493 ), $17.50
81. Ferguson, Rebecca, THE UNBALANCED MIND: POPE AND THE RULE OF PASSION, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1986), 205pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 081228027X This detailed and scholarly study is the first full-length exploration of Pope's writings in the context of passion., (Order No: 44941 ), $15.00
82. Finney, Brian, THE INNER I: BRITISH LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Oxford University Press, New York, 1985, 286pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195037383 The author selects a number of the most outstanding British autobiographies written in the twentieth century in order to examine the nature of autobiographical truth. Topics covered include the relationship between autobiography and fact, fiction, comedy, parental influence, childhood, dreams and social conditioning., (Order No: 14021 ), $5.00
83. Fisch, Harold, THE DUAL IMAGE: THE FIGURE OF THE JEW IN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE, Ktav Publishing House, Inc., New York, (1971), 149pp, fine, navy cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0901057029 A broad survey of the subject of the Jew in English and American literature with the more characteristic and important examples pinpointed, rather than a comprehensive history. This book first appeared in a shorter form in 1959 as a contribution to the Popular Jewish Library (Second Series). It has now been revised and enlarged and the last three chapters, dealing with recent American and British writing, are new., (Order No: 13294 ), $17.50
84. Foakes, R. A. (edited by), COLERIDGE ON SHAKESPEARE: THE TEXT OF THE LECTURES OF 1811-12, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1971), B&W illustrations, 171pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813903408 This new edition is based on hitherto unpublished transcripts of the lectures made by Collier when, as a young man, he attended Coleridge's lectures with the keenness of a hero-worshiper seeking to take down the great man's words accurately., (Order No: 52703 ), $20.00
85. Foer, Jonathan Safran; Eggers, Dave; Krauss, Nicole; and Howowitz, Eli (editors), THE FUTURE DICTIONARY OF AMERICA, McSweeney's Books, n.p., (2004), B&W and color illustrations, 208pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) with CD, ISBN 193241620X A BOOK TO BENEFIT PROGRESSIVE CAUSES IN THE 2004 ELECTIONS FEATURING OVER 170 OF AMERICA'S BEST WRITERS AND ARTISTS. ALSO INCLUDING A 22-TRACK CD WITH NEW SONGS FROM: DAVID BYRNE, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, R.E.M., SLEATER-KINNEY, ELLIOTT SMITH, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, TOM WAITS, and many more., (Order No: 52199 ), $10.00
86. Foster, Edward Halsey, THE CIVILIZED WILDERNESS: BACKGROUNDS TO AMERICAN ROMANTIC LITERATURE, 1817-1860, The Free Press, New York, (1975) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 220pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0029103509 By examining the meaning of the wilderness in the social and artistic life of the period, this volume offers a fresh perspective with which to evaluate this first great era of American literature., (Order No: 52815 ), $7.50
87. Fox, Henry J., THE STUDENT'S TOPICAL SHAKESPEARE: THIRTY-SEVEN PLAYS... (NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED), Thompson, Brown, & Co., Boston, MA, 1884, 664pp, good, olive green cloth (hardcover), THIRTY-SEVEN PLAYS, ANALYZED AND TOPICALLY ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF CLERGYMEN, LAWYERS, STUDENTS, ETC., (Order No: 32643 ), $75.00
88. Frank, Catherine (compiled by), QUOTATIONS FOR ALL OCCASIONS, Columbia University Press, New York, (2000) 1st ptg, 260pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0231112904 "Every Year" offers quotations on all the special dates in the calendar from New Year's Day to New Year's Eve. "Occasionally" presents quotations on such occasions as giving a speech, having an interview, becoming a parent, getting engaged, and saying goodbye. "Once in a Lifetime" provides quotations on such momentous events as confirmation, turning 16, graduation, and retirement., (Order No: 33732 ), $11.50
89. Freedman, Richard, THE NOVEL, Newsweek Books, New York, (1975), 160 B&W and color ill., 192pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0882251155 Supplementing and enhancing this volume's engrossing narrative are period engravings, portraits, and memorabilia as well as numerous photographs--and together they provide a remarkably comprehensive picture of the world's greatest novelists, their milieux, and their creations., (Order No: 16956 ), $7.50
90. Gabler-Hover, Janet, TRUTH IN AMERICAN FICTION: THE LEGACY OF RHETORICAL IDEALISM, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1990) 1st ptg, 289pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820312479 The author contends that most of the major novelists of nineteenth-century America consciously discriminated in their works between the moral and immoral use of language., (Order No: 42915 ), $9.00
91. Galler, Meyer and Marquess, Harlan E. (compiled by), SOVIET PRISON CAMP SPEECH: A SURVIVOR'S GLOSSARY, SUPPLEMENTED BY TERMS FROM THE WORKS OF A. I. SOLZENICYN, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, (1972) 1st ptg, 216pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0299060802 The 1962 publication of Solzenicyn's ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVIC underscored the need for an aid to understanding the special jargon used in Soviet prison and labor camps. This jargon still flourishes today in Soviet prision camps, and promises to take an ever-increasing role in Russian literature of the future., (Order No: 17878 ), $14.50
92. Garber, Frederick, SELF, TEXT, AND ROMANTIC IRONY: THE EXAMPLE OF BYRON, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1988, 323pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0691067309 Using patterns in Byron's canon as models, the author focuses on the relations of self-making and text-making as a central Romantic issue. For Byron and many of his contemporaries, putting a text into the world meant putting a self there along with it, and it also meant that the difficulties of establishing the one inevitably reflect the parallel difficulties in the other., (Order No: 13233 ), $8.50
93. Geiger, Don, THE DRAMATIC IMPULSE IN MODERN POETICS, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1967), 165pp, good w/chipped and faded dustjacket (hardcover), This volume treats the theory of poetry- -especially the lyric or "I poem--as dramatized discourse, that is, as the utterance of the poem's implied speaker. The dramatic perspective supports oral interpretation as a desirable approach in the study of poetry, and the relations between the two are emphasized throughout the book., (Order No: 26503 ), $10.00
94. Gery, John, NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION AND CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY: WAYS OF NOTHINGNESS, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (1996) 1st ptg, 235pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0813014174 The first full-length study of nuclear theory and American poetry, this book examines four distinct poetic approaches to nuclear culture--protest poetry, apocalyptic lyric poetry, psycho-historical poetry, and the poetry of uncertainty., (Order No: 52113 ), $15.00
95. Goodheart, Eugene (with a new afterword by the author), THE SKEPTIC DISPOSITION: DECONSTRUCTION, IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER MATTERS, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1991), 210pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0691015198 The author examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation, arguing that the targets of deconstructive suspicion are fundamental humanistic values., (Order No: 26244 ), $6.00
96. Goonetilleke, D. C. R. A., DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN BRITISH FICTION, Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa, NJ, (1977), 282pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874719089 The author discusses the reactions of Joseph Conrad to the Far East, Africa and South America; of Rudyard Kipling and E.M. Forster to India; of D.H. Lawrence to Mexico and New Mexico; and of Joyce Cary to Nigeria., (Order No: 13774 ), $12.50
97. Gordon, David J., LITERARY ART AND THE UNCONSCIOUS, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1976), 202pp, very good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807101974, (Order No: 36143 ), $7.00
98. Gray, Richard (edited by), ROBERT PENN WARREN: A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, (1980), 206pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0137819145 To provide a comprehensive view of Robert Penn Warren, the editor brings together outstanding selections that encompass the full range of the writer's talents-as novelist, poet, poetic dramatist, critic, and historian., (Order No: 18021 ), $14.50
99. Grayson, Janet, STRUCTURE AND IMAGERY IN ANCRENE WISSE, Univ. Pr. of New Hampshire, Hanover, NH, 1974, B&W figures, 243pp, good w/old taped repaired dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874510813 ANCRENE WISSE or ANCRENE RIWLE, the Rule for Anchoresses, is generally regarded as the most important prose work surviving in Middle English. The book traces the place of the document in early English mystical tradition, emphasizing the preeminence of the Rule in early Middle English prose literature as a conscious work of literary artistry., (Order No: 44903 ), $12.00
100. Green, Frederick C., FRENCH NOVELISTS, MANNERS AND IDEAS: FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE REVOLUTION, Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York, (1964), 239pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), An absorbing study of the novel in France as it evolved from the "romanesque" type to Rousseau., (Order No: 16529 ), $7.00
101. Greenberg, Valerie D., TRANSGRESSIVE READINGS: THE TEXTS OF FRANZ KAFKA AND MAX PLANCK, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1990), 224pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0472101587 This volume offers readings and a theory of reading of both literary and scientific texts on an equal basis and in relation to one another., (Order No: 26474 ), $8.00
102. Grigson, Geoffrey, POETS IN THEIR PRIDE, Basic Books, Inc., Pub., New York, (1964) 2nd ptg, 12 B&W ill., 178pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Grigson has chosen twelve favorite poets to "exhibit in their pride and in their courage." These poets include; Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Ralegh, John Donne, John Milton, John Dryden, Christopher Smart, William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Clare, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and Henry Vaughan, Silurist., (Order No: 15829 ), $7.50
103. Gross, John (edited and with an introduction by), THE MODERN MOVEMENT: A TLS COMPANION, University of Chicago Press, Chicago,IL, (1993), 311pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0226309878 An entertaining selection of 155 articles and reviews about and by the great figures of literary modernism., (Order No: 53200 ), $6.00
104. Gustafson, Susan E., ABSENT MOTHERS AND ORPHANED FATHERS: NARCISSISM AND ABJECTION IN LESSING'S AESTHETIC AND DRAMATIC PRODUCTION, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, (1995) 1st ptg, 315pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814325033 An original interpretation of the mother's role in the work of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, the influential German critic and dramatist of the eighteenth century who profoundly shaped German literary tradition., (Order No: 38891 ), $15.00
105. Gygax, Franziska, GENDER AND GENRE IN GERTRUDE STEIN, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, (1998) 2nd ptg, 141pp, fine, gray cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0313307555 Contributions in Women's Studies, number 169., (Order No: 46481 ), $15.00
106. Haber, Tom Burns, THE MAKING OF A SHROPSHIRE LAD: A MANUSCRIPT VARIORUM, Univ. of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, (1966), 322pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This volume, which contains some of the most familiar poetry in the English language, includes more than half of the poems that A. E. Housman published during his lifetime., (Order No: 50938 ), $15.00
107. Hafter, Monroe Z., GRACIAN AND PERFECTION: SPANISH MORALISTS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1966, 174pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), In this first study in English of the basic texts of Spanish moralist literature, the author selects three major writers from the great corpus of moralist literature-Francisco de Quevedo, Diego Saavedra Fajardo, and Baltasar Gracian-for a comparative analysis and brings into focus their personal impress on current themes., (Order No: 13836 ), $9.00
108. Hagstrum, Jean H., EROS AND VISION: THE RESTORATION TO ROMANTICISM, Northwestern University Pr., Evanston, IL, (1989), 290pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0810108283 This volume represents Jean H. Hagstrum's best thinking about the period of English literature and culture from the Restoration to Romanticism (1660 to 1827, the year of Blake's death)., (Order No: 34970 ), $7.50
109. Halkett, Samuel; Laing, John - Enlarged by: Kennedy, James; Smith, W. A.; and, Johnson, A. F., DICTIONARY OF ANONYMOUS AND PSEUDONYMOUS ENGLISH LITERATURE NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION - 8 VOLUME WORKING SET, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh / London, good, maroon cloth (hardcover) some tears to spines SEE NOTE, WORKING SET DUE TO TEARS AND WEAR TO CLOTH AS DETAILED BELOW. Book blocks essentially clean and tight Eight Volumes Including: Volume 1, 1926, 475pp, spine strip torn at gutters; Volume 2, 1926, 421pp, wear top/bottom of spine; Volume 3, 1928, 412pp, tear on spine; Volume 4, 1928, 463pp, small tear rear of spine; Volume 5, 1929, 406pp, no tears; Volume 6, 1932, 449pp, tears edges of spine backstrip; Volume 7, 1934, 588pp; and, Volume 8 (1900-1950), (1956), very good, no faults. REMEMBER this is a clean and tight set, but a WORKING SET because of the faults on the spines., (Order No: 49232 ), $125.00
110. Hall, Anne Drury, CEREMONY AND CIVILITY IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE PROSE, Pennsylvania State Univ. Pr., University Park, PA, (1991), 207pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0271007702 This volume analyzes the emergence of civil prose in texts of the early modern period and defends English Renaissance writers against the current attack on their aristocratic politics., (Order No: 45708 ), $5.00
111. Hall, James, ARNOLD BENNETT: PRIMITIVISM AND TASTE, University of Washington Pr., Seattle, WA, (1967) 2nd ptg, 159pp, very good+, orange cloth (hardcover), First published in 1959., (Order No: 44310 ), $10.00
112. Hall, N. John, TROLLOPE AND HIS ILLUSTRATORS, The Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, (1980), B&W illustrations, 175pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0333262972 The author "...marshals biographical and bibliographical data, examines the drawings in their function as illustrations to the text, and makes available eighty representative plates.", (Order No: 52892 ), $27.50
113. Halpern, Joseph, CRITICAL FICTIONS: THE LITERARY CRITICISM OF JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1976, 176pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300019432 A comprehensive analysis of the 5,000 pages of Sartre's published work., (Order No: 31531 ), $10.00
114. Hammond, Brean S., POPE, Humanities Pr. International, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, (1986), 218pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0391034219 Harvester New Readings. The author examines Pope's major texts, opening them up for the student by concentrating on questions of political and gender ideology, making clarity of expression a primary objective., (Order No: 45106 ), $7.50
115. Hanley, Evelyn A., NATURE IN THEME AND SYMBOL: WORDSWORTH TO ELIOT, Heath Cote Publishing Co., New York, (1972), 94pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Traces the influence of the nature tradition established by Wordsworth as it is manifested in the poetry of some of his major successors in two centuries; including: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot., (Order No: 10205 ), $25.00
116. Hardison, O. B. (editor), THE QUEST FOR IMAGINATION: ESSAYS IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AESTHETIC CRITICISM, Pr. of Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, 1971, 286pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0829502076 Essays which introduce some of the finest thought on literature by: George Santayana, Wallace Stevens, Ernst Cassirer, Susanne Langer, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Northrop Frye, Edmund Husserl, Stephane Mallarme, Georges Poulet, and Gaston Bachelard., (Order No: 13975 ), $10.00
117. Harper, Howard M. and Edge, Charles (edited by), THE CLASSIC BRITISH NOVEL, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1972), 239pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820302813 These original essays range in subject from the beginnings of the English novel as a genre in the 1740s to it fullest development in the early twentieth century. They deal with most of the indisputably major British novelists, illustrating a wide variety of critical responses and strategies--historical, technical, linguistic, generic, psychological, biographical, and epistemological., (Order No: 17310 ), $7.50
118. Harrington, Gary, FAULKNER'S FABLES OF CREATIVITY: THE NON-YOKNAPATAWPHA NOVELS, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1990), 148pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820310980 A close examination of SOLDIERS' PAY (1926), MOSQUITOES (1927), PYLON (1935), THE WILD PALMS (1939), and A FABLE (1954). Focusing on each book individually, the author points out their relevance to one another and to the remainder of Faulkner's fiction., (Order No: 16646 ), $8.00
119. Heiney, Donald, AMERICA IN MODERN ITALIAN LITERATURE, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1964), B&W illustrations, 278pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), The author believes that America and the myth of America play a larger part in modern Italian literature than the image of any other foreign culture, and he has written a lively critical analysis of that myth as it is reflected in modern Italian novels, poems, and plays dealing with America and Americans., (Order No: 17377 ), $10.00
120. Hepburn, James (edited by), ARNOLD BENNETT: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, (1981), 554pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0710005121 This volume, the first collection of criticism of Bennett ever to be published, covers all the important criticism of him published during his lifetime., (Order No: 18587 ), $10.00
121. Hogan, Patrick Colm, THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION: IDEOLOGY, PROFESSIONALISM, AND THE STUDY OF LITERATURE, Oxford University Press, New York, 1990 1st ptg, 242pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195062728, (Order No: 50347 ), $7.50
122. Hohendahl, Peter Uwe and Gilman, Sander L. (edited by), HEINRICH HEINE AND THE OCCIDENT: MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, MULTIPLE RECEPTIONS, Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, (1991), B&W illustrations, 235pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0803272510 Scholars from France, Germany, Italy, and the United States assess the history, importance, and influence of Heine's work throughout the West., (Order No: 17295 ), $7.50
123. Holt, Guy (edited by), JURGEN AND THE LAW: A STATEMENT, Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1923, 78pp, good+, brown cloth (hardcover), With Exhibits, including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct on Acquittal. The case against James Branch Cabell., (Order No: 25569 ), $12.50
124. Horne, William C., MAKING A HEAVEN OF HELL: THE PROBLEM OF THE COMPANIONATE IDEAL IN ENGLISH MARRIAGE POETRY, 1650-1800, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1993) 1st ptg, 375pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820314749 From 1650 to 1800 in England, notions about marriage underwent significant change. The new model that arose--the companionate ideal--emphasized a couple's compatibility in age, temperament, and background and celebrated the husband and wife as affectionate friends, lovers, and parents. The companionate ideal became a central feature in what some historians see as the emergence of the nuclear family and the rise of domesticity., (Order No: 18880 ), $12.50
125. Horodisch, Abraham, OSCAR WILDE'S BALLAD OF READING GAOL: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY, Aldus Book Company, New York, 1954, B&W illustrations, 126pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), Chapters include; The translations, The illustrated editions, and The American editions. One of 326 copies., (Order No: 18209 ), $85.00
126. Howarth, W. D.; Fargher, R.; Raitt, A. W.; Gill, Austin (editor), LIFE AND LETTERS IN FRANCE: THE 17TH CENTURY, THE 18TH CENTURY, AND THE 19TH CENTURY - THREE VOLUME SET, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, very good w/good dustjackets (hardcover), A series designed to provide the background of political, social, economic and cultural history so necessary for a full understanding of French literature. Each volume has an introduction on the period and a detailed bibliography, followed by about twenty extracts from the works of the century's outstanding writers. Offered as a three volume set, including: Howarth, W.D., LIFE AND LETTERS IN FRANCE: THE SEVENTEENTY CENTURY (1965), 237pp; Fargher, R., LIFE AND LETTERS IN FRANCE: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1970), 235pp; and Raitt, A.W., LIFE AND LETTERS IN FRANCE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1965), 177pp. Priced as a set., (Order No: 14082 ), $20.00
127. Hunter, Jefferson, EDWARDIAN FICTION, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1982, 280pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0674240308 The first comprehensive assessment of the English novel in the reign of Edward VII, that decade which - elegantly self-confident yet uncertain of its future - opened the twentieth century., (Order No: 50353 ), $8.00
128. Jackson, Guida M., TRADITIONAL EPICS: A LITERARY COMPANION, Oxford University Press, New York, (1995), B&W illustrations, 732pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0195102762 Jackson brings together the world's major traditional epics and the characters who bring them to life, offering unique insight into the cultures from which they were born., (Order No: 23611 ), $10.00
129. Jackson, Holbrook, THE EIGHTEEN NINETIES: A REVIEW OF ART AND IDEAS AT THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, Jonathan Cape, London, (1934) 3rd ptg, B&W frontis, B&W plates, 304pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover), First published in 1913 and reissued in The Life & Letters Series, Volume 17. The author has endeavoured to expound the attitude of the Eighteen Nineties and to indicate its victories and defeats., (Order No: 17365 ), $10.00
130. Jensen, H. James and Zirker, Malvin R. (edited by), THE SATIRIST'S ART, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1972), 113pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253350808 All three authors of essays in this volume address themselves to the problem of getting at satire's essence, discussing such varied works as ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL, MACFLECKNOE, THE DUNCIAD, THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, and GULLIVER'S TRAVELS., (Order No: 30764 ), $15.00
131. Kahn, Sholom J., MARK TWAIN'S MYSTERIOUS STRANGER: A STUDY OF THE MANUSCRIPT TEXTS, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, (1978), 252pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0826202365 Working from the premise that the false text of the so-called Paine-Duneka edition has led readers for over half a century to reach erroneous conclusions about the quality of Twain's later writings, the author gives the true texts a fresh reading, offering the first detailed criticism of works of central importance for an understanding of the entire Twain canon., (Order No: 13314 ), $6.00
132. Kaiser, Leo Max (edited by), THOREAU'S TRANSLATION OF THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES (1843), Transcendental Books, Hartford, CT, (1960), B&W ill. follow text, 30pp of text, very good, green cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 41450 ), $32.50
133. Kauvar, Elaine M., CYNTHIA OZICK'S FICTION: TRADITION & INVENTION, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, (1993) 1st ptg, 264pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0253331293 The author illuminates the intricacies of Ozick's texts, explores the dynamics of her creativity, and excavates her sources, contexts, and allusions., (Order No: 38904 ), $17.50
134. Kazin, Alfred, A WRITER'S AMERICA: LANDSCAPE IN LITERATURE, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1988 1st Amer, 102 ill, 16 in color, 240pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) small closed tear jacket, ISBN 0394571428 A brilliant study of the omnipresent influence of the American landscape--wild or pastoral or urbanized--on poets, essayists, and novelists., (Order No: 33225 ), $5.00
135. Kernan, Alvin, THE DEATH OF LITERATURE, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1990), 230pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0300052383 A distinguished professor of humanities looks at some of the agents that have contributed to literature's demise and ponders whether its vitality can be restored in the changing circumstances of late twentieth-century culture., (Order No: 17004 ), $4.50
136. Kerr, Howard; Crowley, John W.; and Crow, Charles L. (edited by), THE HAUNTED DUSK: AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL FICTION, 1820-1920, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1983), 236pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820306304 "From Washington Irving to Jack London, most major American writers tried their hands at supernatural fiction. This was the great age of the American ghost story.", (Order No: 53054 ), $20.00
137. Kinsley, James and Kinsley, Helen (edited by), DRYDEN: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE, Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York, (1971) 1st US, 414pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) Lacks FFEP, ISBN 0389041262 This volume provides a representative collection of critical comments on Dryden (including his own), from 1663 to 1810., (Order No: 44924 ), $8.50
138. Klieneberger, H. R., THE CHRISTIAN WRITERS OF THE INNER EMIGRATION, Mouton, Paris, 1968, 218pp, very good, blue buckram cloth (hardcover), The Christian writers include: Rudolf Alexander Schroder; Reinhold Schneider; Jochen Klepper; Werner Bergengruen; Ernst Wiechert; and, Gertrud von le Fort., (Order No: 27356 ), $35.00
139. Kooy, Mary; Janssen, Tanja; and Watson, Ken (edited by), FICTION, LITERATURE AND MEDIA, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, (1999), B&W illustrations, 95pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 905356392X This volume examines mother tongue language education and the changing face of the texts that characterize it., (Order No: 53199 ), $25.00
140. Koppelman, Robert S., ROBERT PENN WARREN'S MODERNIST SPIRITUALITY, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, (1995) 1st ptg, 165pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0826209963 Robert Koppelman explores the spiritual or religious dimension to Warren's work in light of his admitted agnosticism., (Order No: 39007 ), $20.00
141. Kramer, Martin (edited by), MIDDLE EASTERN LIVES: THE PRACTICE OF BIOGRAPHY AND SELF-NARRATIVE, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1991) 1st ed, 167pp, fine w/fine dustjacket, In this volume, an impressive array of scholars, biographers, and critics from the disciplines of anthropology, history, political science, and psychology explore the diversity of approaches both to writing biography and to reading self-narratives., (Order No: 22501 ), $15.00
142. Kuhns, Richard, THE HOUSE, THE CITY, AND THE JUDGE: THE GROWTH OF MORAL AWARENESS IN THE ORESTEIA, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York, (1962) 1st ed, 164pp, good+ w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), Analyzes the dramatic meaning of the three plays--the AGAMEMNON, LIBATION BEARERS, and EUMENIDES--the only complete trilogy that survives from the great period of Greek literature., (Order No: 38208 ), $7.50
143. Lambert, Mark, DICKENS AND THE SUSPENDED QUOTATION, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1981) 1st ptg, 186pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300025556, (Order No: 36836 ), $7.50
144. Lawson, William, THE WESTERN SCAR: THE THEME OF THE BEEN-TO IN WEST AFRICAN FICTION, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH, (1982), 151pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0821406493 Although other scholars have noted the frequent use of the theme of the African recently returned from the West, none has discussed it at length. This study defines the convention, describes its characteristics, and traces its history through the analysis of major and minor works of We st African fiction through 1974., (Order No: 15417 ), $10.00
145. Lease, Benjamin, THAT WILD FELLOW JOHN NEAL: AND THE AMERICAN LITERARY REVOLUTION, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1972), 12 B&W ill., 229pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0226469697 For this first book-length study, the author has unearthed a wealth of new details that establish Neal's importance as a key transitional figure in the American literary revolution, and that confirm Hawthorne's assessment of Neal's personality: "That wild fellow.", (Order No: 21792 ), $7.00
146. Lee, Jongsook, BEN JONSON'S POESIS: A LITERARY DIALECTIC OF IDEAL AND HISTORY, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1989), 112pp, fine, olive green cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0813911923 This study examines the history of the conflict between fact and fiction in Jonson-its roots and its consequences in the nature and tone of his work., (Order No: 13888 ), $6.00
147. Lindsay, Jack, MEETINGS WITH POETS: MEMORIES OF DYLAN THOMAS, EDITH SITWELL, LOUIS ARAGON, PAUL ELUARD, & TRISTAN TZARA, Frederick Ungar Publishing, New York, (1969) 1st Amer, 245pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804425264 Jack Lindsay has personally known all of these poets. Here he shares his impressions of them and interpretations of their work., (Order No: 13591 ), $18.50
148. Lodge, David, THE ART OF FICTION: ILLUSTRATED FROM CLASSIC AND MODERN TEXTS, Viking, New York, (1993) 1st Amer, 240pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) stain back cover, ISBN 0670848484 Lodge explores and explains a wide range of topics, from suspense, symbolism, and the epistolary novel to surprise, weather, the intrusive author, and more., (Order No: 20166 ), $9.00
149. Louis, Frances D., SWIFT'S ANATOMY OF MISUNDERSTANDING, Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, NJ, (1981), 193pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0389200743 "A Study of Swift's Epistemological Imagination in A TALE OF A TUB and GULLIVER'S TRAVELS." This is a detailed examination of one of Swift's most central concerns, man's capacity for misunderstanding. Underlying Swift's satiric fiction is the belief that man, while capable of reasoning, is not a rational animal., (Order No: 13563 ), $14.50
150. Lowery, Robert G. (edited by), O'CASEY ANNUAL NO. I, Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, (1982), 11 B&W plates, 233pp, very good, green cloth (hardcover) glassine dj as published, An important forum for criticism and scholarship on O'Casey. This book presents a wide range of critical articles, specially commissioned from some of the leading experts in the field, including Ronald Ayling, William J. Maroldo, Mary FitzGerald and the editor, Robert G. Lowery., (Order No: 16845 ), $14.50
151. Luyben, Helen L., JAMES BRIDIE: CLOWN AND PHILOSOPHER, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1965), 180pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), This critical analysis of twelve of the plays of James Bridie (1885-1951) illustrates that throughout Bridie's work there exists a philosophical continuity which can be traced through three stages of moral awareness and which when recognized goes far in defining Bridie's genius., (Order No: 44376 ), $6.00
152. Lynn, Kenneth S., THE AIR-LINE TO SEATTLE: STUDIES IN LITERARY AND HISTORICAL WRITING ABOUT AMERICA, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1984), 227pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0226498336 The author demonstrates that far too many of our current commentators on the American past are out of touch with historical reality., (Order No: 30219 ), $5.00
153. Mabille, Pierre, MIRROR OF THE MARVELOUS: THE CLASSIC SURREALIST WORK ON MYTH, Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, (1998) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 303pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) top corners bumped, ISBN 0892816503 This volume is an active attempt to define the flame of the marvelous by showing its presence in those works where it burns the brightest., (Order No: 44297 ), $7.50
154. Macauley, Robie and Lanning, George, TECHNIQUE IN FICTION, Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, (1964), 227pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), A book of working information, suggestion, and example. Fiction has no absolute rules or laws. Its whole code of technique is built on prededent alone, learning about it is like reading history--a special kind of history--in order to find out which methods seem to have succeeded, and which failed, in the past., (Order No: 16501 ), $5.00
155. MacDonnel, D. E., A DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS, G. and W. B. Whittaker, London, 1819 7th ed, unpaginated, good+, 3/4 leather, marbled boards (hardcover) some pencil marks, A DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS, IN MOST FREQUENT USE, TAKEN CHIEFLY FROM THE LATIN AND FRENCH, BUT COMPRISING MANY FROM THE GREEK, SPANISH, AND ITALIAN LANGUATES, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH; WITH ILLUSTRATIONS HISTORICAL AND IDIOMATIC., (Order No: 54212 ), $45.00
156. Macpherson, Jay, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE: CONVENTIONS AND CONTINUITIES IN LATE ROMANCE, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1982) 1st ptg, 11 B&W ill., 349pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0300026323 Macpherson's special concern is for the images and patterns that inform themes of solitude and retribution in certain novels, dramas, and poems., (Order No: 18741 ), $8.50
157. Mandia, Patricia M., COMEDIC PATHOS: BLACK HUMOR IN TWAIN'S FICTION, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, (1991), 134pp, fine, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), ISBN 0899506429 This study defines black humor, describes its characteristics, and presents its backgrounds. An examination of biographical information makes it clear that Twain's temperament and experiences, combined with literary influences (Southwestern humor with its violence, for example), predisposed him to write black humor., (Order No: 16691 ), $12.00
158. Manteiga, Roberto C.; Herzberger, David K.; and, Compitello, Malcolm Alan (edited by) (foreword by Juan Benet), CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE WRITINGS OF JUAN BENET, Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, NH, (1984), 171pp, very good+, brown cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), ISBN 0874512700 This volume of essays probe Benet's literary theory, short stories, and novels. These studies scrutinize Benet's writings at close range, and they afford a lucid and penetrating portrait of Benet's literary vision., (Order No: 16053 ), $10.00
159. May, Keith M., CHARACTERS OF WOMEN IN NARRATIVE LITERATURE, St. Martin's Press, New York, (1981), 182pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0312129939 Novelists and dramatists have presented appealing women characters whose influence has helped to shape reality. Here the author looks at some of these women characters--from Homer's day to the present--considering them in their contexts as literary images which reflect in some degree the actual world but also embody their creator's wishes, hopes and fears., (Order No: 16025 ), $15.00
160. Maynadier, Howard, THE ARTHUR OF THE ENGLISH POETS, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA, 1907 1st ed, 454pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), Author's purpose was not to advance new theories regarding the origin and development of the Arthurian legends, but to select what seem to him the sanest of the frequently conflicting opinions on the Round Table stories which students of mediaeval literature have held, and to present them clearly., (Order No: 51686 ), $14.50
161. McCollom, William G. ( Mc Collom, William G. ), THE DIVINE AVERAGE: A VIEW OF COMEDY, Pr. of Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH, (1971), 231pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0829502025 This book elaborates the definition of comedy through studies of plot, character, and language, and through a series of chapters on great comedies by Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Jonson, Moliere, Marivaux, and Shaw., (Order No: 14055 ), $7.50
162. McEwan, Neil, THE SURVIVAL OF THE NOVEL: BRITISH FICTION IN THE LATER TWENTIETH CENTURY, Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, NJ, (1981), 188pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0389202428 The first part of this book deals with five novelists--John Fowles, Iris Murdoch, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis and Anthony Powell. Part two considers the problem of assessing and accounting for new achievements, and looks at two very successful novels: L. P. Gartley's THE GO-BETWEEN and William Golding's LORD OF THE FLIES., (Order No: 45208 ), $5.00
163. McKay, Kenneth M., MANY GLANCING COLOURS: AN ESSAY IN READING TENNYSON, 1809-1850, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, (1988), 287pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0802026583 According to Tennyson, "Poetry is like shot-silk with many glancing colours." Taking this statement as a key to Tennyson's art and meaning, the author explores in detail the maturation of the poet. Rooted in close analyses of individual poems, this is a study of the development and character of Tennyson's liberal artistic imagination; it allows a new understanding of the character of the Victorian period as well., (Order No: 14381 ), $8.00
164. Menhennet, Alan, THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT - LITERARY HISTORY OF GERMANY 6, Croom Helm/Barnes & Noble, London/Totowa, NJ, (1981), 276pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0709903812 / 0389201049 This study concentrates on the exponents of the central period of German Romanticism, regarding as characteristic the mode in which the poet's self becomes active only in response to external stimuli, most notably those of landscape., (Order No: 32233 ), $25.00
165. Mersereau, John, BARON DELVIG'S NORTHERN FLOWERS 1825-1832: LITERARY ALMANAC OF THE PUSHKIN PLEIAD, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1967), 267pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Analysis of one of the best Russian examples of the nineteenth-century literary almanac, a genre of importance in the development of literature. NORTHERN FLOWERS was edited for seven years by the poet Baron Anton Delvig; the eighth issue was published as a memorial to Delvig, who died in 1831. Many of the most famous works of the Golden Age of Russian poetry --by Pushkin, Vyazemsky, and Baratynsky, among others--first appeared in the almanac., (Order No: 14392 ), $7.50
166. Meyers, Jeffrey, PRIVILEGED MOMENTS: ENCOUNTERS WITH WRITERS, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, (2000) 1st ptg, 149pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0299169405 Describing these portraits--of Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Ed Dorn, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Naipaul, Francis King, and J. F. Powers--Myers writes, "I wanted to learn everything about their lives, what they looked like, how they lived, what they said. I was most curious about the creative process, the relation between authors' lives and their art, the public image and the real self.", (Order No: 30493 ), $10.00
167. Milberg-Kaye, Ruth, THOMAS HARDY: MYTHS OF SEXUALITY, The John Jay Press, New York, 1983, 123pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) author inscribed, ISBN 0894440365 Author traces four motifs which, since they appear in every one of Hardy's novels and many of his short stories, can be labelled obsessional., (Order No: 53051 ), $30.00
168. Miller, James E., THE FICTIONAL TECHNIQUE OF SCOTT FITZGERALD, Martinus Nijhoff, Netherlands, 1957, 116pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover), Contents include: THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, A NOVEL OF SATURATION; THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE DAMNED, A NOVEL OF TRANSITION; THE GREAT GATSBY, A NOVEL OF SELECTION., (Order No: 44702 ), $22.50
169. Miller, R. Baxter (edited by), BLACK AMERICAN POETS BETWEEN WORLDS, 1940-1960 -- TENNESSEE STUDIES IN LITERATURE, VOLUME 30, University of Tennessee Pr., Knoxville, TN, (1988), 190pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0870495909, (Order No: 51902 ), $5.00
170. Miner, Earl (edited by), STUART AND GEORGIAN MOMENTS, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1972, 301pp, good, tan cloth (hardcover) EX-LIB with usual markings, ISBN 0520016416 CLARK LIBRARY SEMINAR PAPERS ON SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE., (Order No: 44627 ), $6.00
171. Monleon, Jose B., A SPECTER IS HAUNTING EUROPE: A SOCIOHISTORICAL APPROACH TO THE FANTASTIC, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1990) 1st ptg, 177pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) SEE NOTE, ISBN 0691068623 In an exploration of the origins and development of the fantastic, Monleon traces the relation of reason to unreason in light of three distinct events that influenced capitalist thinking: the French Revolution, the uprisings of 1848, and the Bolshevik Revolution. NOTE - Light dampstain on bottom of front boards under dustjacket., (Order No: 28220 ), $10.00
172. Montgomery, Marion, WHY HAWTHORNE WAS MELANCHOLY: VOLUME III OF A TRILOGY - THE PROPHETIC POET AND THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE, Sherwood Sugden & Company, La Salle, IL, (1984) 1st ed, 570pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0893850276 Professor Montgomery gives us careful analysis of literary works, in the interest of aesthetic values; he is concerned with philosophical and theological questions that bear upon aesthetics. He is also interested in discovering the causes leading to the deracinated, secular spirit so pervasive of our world, and he looks toward a restoration of the spiritual dimension in our intellectual and social communities., (Order No: 48274 ), $75.00
173. Moore, Don D. (editor), WEBSTER: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, (1981), 161pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0710007736 Professor Moore traces Webster's critical reputation from the contemporary response up to the end of the nineteenth century, including American reactions, and reviews of productions on both sides of the Atlantic, many of which are reprinted here for the first time., (Order No: 14058 ), $7.50
174. Morrison, Karl F., THE MIMETIC TRADITION OF REFORM IN THE WEST, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1982), 440pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Ancient writers distinguished between art and style, arguing that free imitation was a critical strategy that freed artists from servile copying of objects and blind submission to rules of style. In this study the author explores the far-reaching consequences of this distinction., (Order No: 16089 ), $15.00
175. Morse, Elizabeth; and, Hunking, Walsh, THE PICTURESQUE ENGLISH OF HENRY JAMES: A COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS, Dorrance & Company, Philadelphia, PA, (1976), 74pp, good+, red cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, (Order No: 49084 ), $25.00
176. Moss, Leonard, THE EXCESS OF HEROISM IN TRAGIC DRAMA, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (2000) 1st ptg, 220pp, fine, dark blue cloth (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0813017599 A critical study of what makes tragedy tragic. The author seeks an answer in his readings of three seminal philosophers of tragedy: Plato, Hegel, and Nietzsche., (Order No: 28176 ), $30.00
177. Murphy, Francis (edited and introduced by), YVOR WINTERS: UNCOLLECTED ESSAYS AND REVIEWS, The Swallow Press Inc., Chicago, IL, (1973) 1st ed, 320pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0804006046 With the exception of only a few items, this collection brings together the previously uncollected essays and reviews of Yvor Winters listed in the bibliography of his work prepared by Kenneth A. Lohf and Eugene P. Sheehy (1959)., (Order No: 17831 ), $10.00
178. Murry, John Middleton, JOHN CLARE AND OTHER STUDIES, Peter Nevill Limited, London, (1950), 252pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), A collection of Mr. Middleton Murry's finest essays on John Clare, Shakespeare, Walter de la Mare, Proust, Tchekhov, Stendhal, Herman Melville, and Baudelaire., (Order No: 52261 ), $8.50
179. Muscatine, Charles (essays by), MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, STYLE, AND CULTURE, Univ. of South Carolina Pr., Columbia, SC, (1999) 1st ptg, 252pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 1570032491 This book brings together in one volume fourteen essays by the noted medievalist Charles Muscatine, author of CHAUCER AND THE FRENCH TRADITION and THE OLD FRENCH FABLIAUX. In this collection Muscatine focuses on style, meaning, and culture in Chaucer, his English contemporaries, and French fabliaux and romance., (Order No: 22442 ), $20.00
180. Naremore, James, THE WORLD WITHOUT A SELF: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE NOVEL, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, (1973) 2nd ptg, 259pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket, ISBN 0300015941 Contents include: A Passage from THE VOYAGE OUT; The Artist as Lover: THE VOYAGE OUT Continued; Virginia Woolf and the Stream of Consciousness; MRS. DALLOWAY; TO THE LIGHTHOUSE; THE WAVES; ORLANDO and the "New Biography," The "Orts and Fragments" in BETWEEN THE ACTS., (Order No: 53214 ), $12.50
181. Nelson, Jane A., FORM AND IMAGE IN THE FICTION OF HENRY MILLER, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1970, 230pp, very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814314007 This book is a study of allegorical patterns in Miller's major fiction. The cities, characters, and scenes of his fictional world are described as "events" in the development and integration of the self. The analysis, which draws on several disciplines for its insights, especially on the psychoanalytic studies of C. G. Jung, is a deliberate and detailed attempt to explore the extent to which such insights can successfully support and assist a literary analysis., (Order No: 14176 ), $3.00
182. Neuburg, Victor E., POPULAR LITERATURE: A HISTORY AND GUIDE FROM THE BEGINNING OF PRINTING TO THE YEAR 1897, The Woburn Press, London, (1977), 302pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) UNDERLINING 6 Pages, ISBN 0713001585 Traces the best selling early literature through 19th century tales and its impact upon social change., (Order No: 51809 ), $8.50
183. Nicolaisen, W. F. H. (edited by), ORAL TRADITION IN THE MIDDLE AGES - MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE TEXTS AND STUDIES VOLUME 112=, Medieval & Renaissance Texts, Binghamton, NY, 1995, 233pp, very good++, blue cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0866981659 Papers presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, which was held on Oct. 21-22, 1988, State University of New York at Binghamton., (Order No: 54441 ), $60.00
184. Nolan, Edward Peter, CRY OUT AND WRITE: A FEMININE POETICS OF REVELATION, Continuum, New York, (1994), 215pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 082640684X This book studies the work of three women--Vibia Perpetua, Hildegard, and Julian of Norwich--who suffered divine revelation, along with a divine imperative to tell the world about it., (Order No: 36042 ), $8.00
185. Orsini, G. N. Giordano, ORGANIC UNITY IN ANCIENT AND LATER POETICS: THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LITERARY CRITICISM, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1975), 120pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0809307286 This essay presents a uniquely felicitous introduction to the philosophy of literary criticism., (Order No: 35626 ), $10.00
186. Osgood, Charles G., SPENSER AND THE ENCHANTED GLASS, n.p., n.p., 1930, 31pp, good+, gray cloth spine, paper covered boards (hardcover), Reprinted from The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine Vol. XIX, No. 1, November, 1930., (Order No: 48948 ), $15.00
187. Packard, Robert, REFRACTIONS - WRITERS AND PLACES, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, (1990) 1st ed, 170pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0881845760 Author chooses nine immortal writers and gives fresh meaning to their famous literary works through the lens of the historical places their works described or were influenced by., (Order No: 49562 ), $5.00
188. Patterson, Annabel, READING BETWEEN THE LINES, University of Wisconsin Pr., Madison, WI, (1993), 339pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), review slip laid in, ISBN 0299135446 The author reconsiders the value of reading the white, male, canonical writers of antiquity and of early modern England, finding in them a set of values different from those supposed by both sides in the Great Books quarrel., (Order No: 18256 ), $8.00
189. Patterson, R. F., THE STORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, Philosophical Library, New York, (1947), B&W illustrations, 348pp, very good, tan cloth (hardcover) lacks front free endpaper, A brief account of the lives and works of some two hundred and fifty of the most eminent English poets, prose writers, dramatists, and novelists., (Order No: 39185 ), $7.50
190. Perosa, Sergio (translated by Charles Matz and the author), THE ART OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1965), 239pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover) 16 PAGES PENCIL, This is the first critical study of F. Scott Fitzgerald based on his complete works from the Princeton juvenilia to THE LAST TYCOON. NOTE - About 16 pages with some marginal pencil notes., (Order No: 52602 ), $7.00
191. Perriam, Chris (an introduction to Luis Antonio de Villena), DESIRE AND DISSENT: AN INTRODUCTION TO LUIS ANTONIO DE VILLENA, Berg, Oxford, UK, (1995), 152pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 1859730574 This introduction to a provocative and sophisticated writer situates Villena's creative work in relation to the contemporary Spanish cultural scene, to twentieth-century homosexual cultrue and to significant gay and dissident figures of the past, including Lorca and Luis Cernuda., (Order No: 38998 ), $7.50
192. Perrin, Noel, A CHILD'S DELIGHT: ESSAYS ON CHILDREN'S CLASSICS BY THE AUTHOR OF A READER'S DELIGHT, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, (1997) 1st ptg, 166pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874518407 Here are books to read to children and grandchildren., (Order No: 51161 ), $5.00
193. Peters, Robert, HUNTING THE SNARK: A COMPENDIUM OF NEW POETIC TERMINOLOGY, Paragon House, New York, (1989) 1st ed, 396pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), Author fashions an entirely new approach to contemporary American poetry. Eschewing the usual chronological or geographical divisions used by other editors of reference works in the field, he sorts through modernist and current poems, separating them into nearly a hundred categores., (Order No: 13566 ), $10.00
194. Peterson, Joyce E., CURS'D EXAMPLE: THE DUCHESS OF MALFI AND COMMONWEAL TRAGEDY, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, 1978, 122pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0826202403 The author argues that the genre and context in which THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (ca. 1612) was written would have reinforced the play's rhetorical perspective and invited Jacobeans to see the Duchess primarily as a ruler whose private desires are at odds with her political responsibility., (Order No: 21754 ), $7.50
195. Peterson, Douglas L., TIME TIDE AND TEMPEST: A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S ROMANCES, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1973, B&W frontis, 259pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) owner inscription, The aim of this book is to reclaim the romances for the contemporary audience., (Order No: 47681 ), $20.00
196. Pieterse, Cosmo and Munro, Donald (editors), PROTEST & CONFLICT IN AFRICAN LITERATURE, Africana Publishing Corp., New York, (1971), 4 B&W ill., 128pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), The essays range from the politics of negritude to protest against apartheid, and from cultural conflict to satire against the elites. Through the works of such leading African writers as Achebe and Soyinka, Senghor and Fanon, Mphahlele and Ngugi, the contributors offer new and stimulating insights into the dynamics of African societies of yesterday and today., (Order No: 15097 ), $12.50
197. Porter, Dennis, ROUSSEAU'S LEGACY: EMERGENCE AND ECLIPSE OF THE WRITER IN FRANCE, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995, B&W illustrations, 306pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review slip laid in, ISBN 0195091078 In Porter's paradigm, Jean-Jacques Rousseau serves as a seminal figure who combined radical critique of existing institutions with a new form of confessional writing and a suspicion of the art of literature. Rousseau inaugurated the idea of a heroic and committed writerly life in which the opposition between public and private self is collapsed., (Order No: 10997 ), $15.00
198. Powers, Ron, THE CRUEL RADIANCE: NOTES OF A PROSEWRITER IN A VISUAL AGE, Middlebury College Press, Hanover, NH, (1994) 1st ptg, 254pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874516900 The dominance of the electronic media has altered the way we think and write, Ron Powers observes in this collection of essays, stories, and literary nonfiction., (Order No: 35058 ), $7.50
199. Purdy, Strother B., THE HOLE IN THE FABRIC: SCIENCE, CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, AND HENRY JAMES, University of Pittsburgh Pr., Pittsburgh, PA, (1977), 228pp, good w/lightly chipped dj (hardcover) inscribed by "the author", Purdy draws upon the work of a number of contemporary writers--including Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Friedrich Durrenmott, Gunter Grass, Samuel Beckett, and Eugene Ionesco--to suggest ways in which novelists of our time explore the unknown, the "other dimension.", (Order No: 25907 ), $7.50
200. Quirk, Randolph, THE CONCESSIVE RELATION IN OLD ENGLISH POETRY, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1954, 150pp, good, black cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), This study is intended to be a companion volume to earlier monographs in the Yale Studies in English which investigated the expression of notional relationships, and in particular to Josephine M. Burnham's CONCESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN OLD ENGLISH PROSE., (Order No: 44634 ), $25.00
201. Ramsden, H., ANGEL GANIVET'S IDEARIUM ESPANOL: A CRITICAL STUDY, Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, (1967), 196pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0719012406, (Order No: 40668 ), $30.00
202. Ray, William, STORY AND HISTORY: NARRATIVE AUTHORITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH NOVEL, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, (1990), 362pp, very good+, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0631175121 A comprehensive, ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, this book rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority., (Order No: 23669 ), $3.50
203. Redding, Arthur F., RAIDS ON HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS: WRITING, ANARCHISM, AND VIOLENCE, Univ. of South Carolina Pr., Columbia, SC, (1998) 1st ptg, 275pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 1570032300 The author examines the contention that violence, be it the mass product of revolutionary uprising or a private sadomasochistic indulgence, may be taken to instill in those who commit it the capacity for radical change., (Order No: 25786 ), $17.50
204. Redford, Bruce (edited by) (playlets by Richard Sheridan), THE ORIGINS OF THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: "THE SLANDERERS" "SIR PETER TEAZLE", Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, 1986, B&W illustrations, 165pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0878110275 Facsimile reproductions of the autograph manuscripts of two playlets by Richard Sheridan. The manuscripts are from the Robert H. Taylor Collection in the Princeton University Library., (Order No: 18145 ), $14.50
205. Reed, Edwin, THE TRUTH CONCERNING STRATFORD UPON AVON AND SHAKSPERE WITH OTHER ESSAYS, Coburn Publishing Co., Boston, MA, 1907, B&W illustrations, 61pp, very good, white cloth spine (hardcover), Largely unopened and uncut., (Order No: 46562 ), $22.50
206. Reeves, James, THE REPUTATION AND WRITINGS OF ALEXANDER POPE, Heinemann/Barnes & Noble, London/New York, (1976), 275pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0064958205 The author, after ten years' work, completed this full-length study of a poet he finds antipathetic, and whose reputation, notably in some academic quarters, he considers harmful to the highest poetic standards., (Order No: 44997 ), $10.00
207. Regueiro, Helen, THE LIMITS OF IMAGINATION: WORDSWORTH, YEATS, AND STEVENS, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1976), 222pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801409942 This subtle, intricately woven study treats the dialectical relationship of imagination and reality in three major poets and, through them, in the poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., (Order No: 14056 ), $8.50
208. Reverand, Cedric D., DRYDEN'S FINAL POETIC MODE: THE FABLES, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, (1988), 239pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812281217 In this volume, Reverand focuses on Dryden's characteristic concerns--love and war, power and kingship, the heroic code, the Christian ideal--tracing how Dryden assembles informing ideals and yet dissolves them as well., (Order No: 44882 ), $7.50
209. Reynolds, David S. and Rosenthal, Debra J. (edited by), THE SERPENT IN THE CUP: TEMPERANCE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, (1997), 237pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 1558490825 Each of the ten essays included in the volume explores some aspect of the ongoing American battle with the bottle. Topics range from the cultural role of the tavern in the eighteenth century to the dark imagery of temperance writing in the nineteenth to the emergence of the "disease paradigm" of alcoholism in the twentieth., (Order No: 28560 ), $10.00
210. Rieser, Max (translated by Herbert M. Schueller), ANALYSIS OF POETIC THINKING, Wayne State Univ. Press, Detroit, MI, 1969, 170pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814313841 Dr. Rieser attempts to deduce the essence of poetic thinking not from the content of the poem, as it is usually done, but from the poem's form., (Order No: 34973 ), $8.00
211. Roberts, John R., RICHARD CRASHAW: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRITICISM 1632-1980, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, 1985, 477pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0826204686 This bibliography is the first to survey comprehensively the critical response to Crashaw's work from 1632, the date of his first published poem, to 1980. Roberts has included 1,200 editions, books, parts of book-length studies, and essays on the work of Richard Crashaw., (Order No: 13787 ), $8.50
212. Roemer, Kenneth M., THE OBSOLETE NECESSITY: AMERICA IN UTOPIAN WRITINGS, 1888-1900, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH, (1976), 26 B&W plates, 1 table, 239pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) slight bow to boards, ISBN 0873381785 This book seeks to demonstrate what the utopian literature reveals about a turbulent and crucial era, the late nineteenth century. Several popular utopian works were Looking Backward, Caesar's Column, and A Connecticut Yankee, suggesting an intense interest in a reevaluation of American ideals., (Order No: 11870 ), $15.00
213. Rose, Mark, ALIEN ENCOUNTERS: ANATOMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1981, 216pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0674015657 The author's continuing themes here include the consideration of science fiction as a form of romance, as a mediator between the conviction of free will and the conviction of determinism, as a displacement of essentially religious concerns, and as a mirror of various aspects of the alienated sensibility of the modern era., (Order No: 13766 ), $4.50
214. Rosenberg, Brian, MARY LEE SETTLE'S BEULAH QUINTET: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, (1991) 1st ptg, 174pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0807116742 Brian Rosenberg examines Settle's work-especially Prisons, O Beulah Land, Know Nothing, The Scapegoat, and The Killing Ground-to show the magnitude and artistic merit of this historical fiction. Analyzing the themes, images , and language of the quintet, he argues that each novel is best read as an installment in a single, continuous fiction-a fiction of major importance., (Order No: 13594 ), $6.00
215. Roudiez, Leon S., FRENCH FICTION TODAY: A NEW DIRECTION, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, (1972) 2nd ptg, 413pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813507243 This study encompasses essays on most of the avant-garde French fiction of the 1960s as well as a few earlier works that reveal similar trends. There is a separate critical essay on the fiction of each of the following: Samuel Beckett, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, Marguerite Duras, Jean Pierre Faye, Claude Mauriac, Claude Ollier, Robert Pinget, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Raymond Roussel, Marc Saporta, Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, and Philippe Sollers, as well as one entitled "Jean Ricardou and French Writing Today.", (Order No: 17074 ), $10.00
216. Rowland, Jon Thomas, FAINT PRAISE AND CIVIL LEER: THE "DECLINE" OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PANEGYRIC, University of Delaware Press, Newark, DE, (1994), 190pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) one small chip on dustjacket, ISBN 0874135435 A rhetorical study that describes the mutual indebtedness of satire and panegyric as branches of epideictic writing from 1603 to 1764., (Order No: 38729 ), $14.50
217. Rowlinson, Matthew, TENNYSON'S FIXATIONS: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE TOPICS OF THE EARLY POETRY, Univ. Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, (1994), 193pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0813914787 Helps us to understand at the level of subject formation the great mysteries of Tennyson's poetry: its obsession with loss and lack, its investment in writerly and material technique, and paradoxically, its powerfully voiced quality., (Order No: 39816 ), $10.00
218. Roy, G. Ross (edited by), STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE: VOLUME XIV, Univ. of South Carolina Pr., Columbia, SC, (1979), 311pp, good, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket ink marks 4+/- pages, ISBN 0872493806, (Order No: 43969 ), $20.00
219. Royce, William Hobart, BALZAC AS HE SHOULD BE READ, AUguste Giraldi, New York, 1946, 47pp, good, maroon cloth (hardcover), The COMEDIE HUMAINE arranged in logical order of reading according to Time of Action., (Order No: 51187 ), $125.00
220. Rubin, David, AFTER THE RAJ: BRITISH NOVELS OF INDIA SINCE 1947, Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, NH, 1986, 197pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874513839 While focusing on the literary significance of works by authors such as Scott, Jhabvala, John Masters, J.G. Farrell, and Kamala Markandaya, Rubin also examines how British attitudes toward India have changed since independence, and how certain prejudices and misconceptions have persisted. He argues that the novelist's conception of the underlying causes of cultural and racial conflict has a direct influence on the literary significance of the work produced., (Order No: 13789 ), $12.50
221. Ryals, Clyde de L., FROM THE GREAT DEEP: ESSAYS ON IDYLLS OF THE KING, Ohio University Press, n.p., (1967) 2nd ptg, 204pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), (Order No: 39081 ), $7.50
222. Saintsbury, George, A CONSIDERATION OF THACKERAY, Russell & Russell, New York, (1968), 273pp, very good+, blue cloth (no dustjacket), (Order No: 21457 ), $20.00
223. Saisselin, Remy G., THE LITERARY ENTERPRISE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1979, B&W frontis, 187pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0814316182 The author introduces the concept of "literary spaces"--the library, the Temple of Fame, and the French version of Grub Street--to examine the changing values and expectations associated with a literary career in the Old Regime., (Order No: 30252 ), $15.00
224. Sale, Roger, ON NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH: WRITINGS OF A WORKING CRITIC, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979, 218pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0195025598 Sale's new collection of his finest reviews., (Order No: 34447 ), $3.00
225. Saltzman, Arthur M., DESIGNS OF DARKNESS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, (1990), 157pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812230515 This volume examines some of the ways in which fiction has traditionally conspired to promote a goal-oriented vision of the work of art--and explores the ways in which postmodern (or postrealist) fiction consistently and unavoidably subverts the clarity of this vision., (Order No: 50969 ), $25.00
226. Sanford, John (foreword by Paul Mariani), VIEW FROM THIS WILDERNESS: AMERICAN LITERATURE AS HISTORY, Capra Press, Santa Barbara, CA, (1977), 184pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0884961125 From Columbus to Hemingway, the author presents a pantheon of American personalities in mordant and memorable vignettes., (Order No: 16392 ), $5.00
227. Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher, THE CONTINUAL PILGRIMAGE: AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS, 1944-1960, Grove Press, New York, (1992) 1st ed, 27 B&W ill., 345pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0802113710 Between 1944 and 1960 a second great wave of American writers took up residence in Paris, seeking the artistically charged atmosphere so pervasive during the Jazz Age. This is a biographical/historical portrait of the friendships and associations they formed, the cross-cultural influences they occasioned, what they discovered, and what they brought back., (Order No: 12142 ), $7.50
228. Scheick, William J., FICTIONAL STRUCTURE & ETHICS: THE TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1990), 183pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0820312428 From close readings of seven novels--Arnold Bennett's ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS, George Gissing's THE UNCLASSED, Thomas Hardy's JUDE THE OBSCURE, H. G. Wells's THE WONDERFUL VISIT and THE SEA LADY, and Joseph Conrad's LORD JIM and THE HEART OF DARKNESS--Scheick demonstrates that the tension between characterization and structure is resolved in favor of structure., (Order No: 22500 ), $15.00
229. Schiffman, Zachary Sayre, ON THE THRESHOLD OF MODERNITY: RELATIVISM IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE, Johns Hopkins Univeristy Pr., Baltimore, MD, (1991), 170pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0801842093 Through a careful anaylsis of a wide range of historical, literary, and philosophical works, Schiffman traces the fate of the classificatory response to the problem of relativism, from Estienne Pasquier's conception of cultural taxonomy, to Michel de Montaigne's notion of moral morphology, to Rene Descartes's idea of serial reasoning., (Order No: 19140 ), $12.50
230. Sears, Lorenzo, AMERICAN LITERATURE IN THE COLONIAL AND NATIONAL PERIODS, Burt Franklin, New York, (1970), 480pp, fine, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket as published), Originally published in 1902. The preface states, "the purpose is to indicate, by mention of leading authors and their works, the growth of letters in America, from such efforts as the earliest English immigrants were able to make, with the attainments they brought from home, down to achievements by citizens of a nation old enough to have a literature of its own, however much it may be indebted to treasures in other lands.", (Order No: 16034 ), $10.00
231. Sears, Theresa Ann, "ECHADO DE TIERRA": EXILE AND THE PSYCHOPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN THE POEMA DE MIO CID, Juan de la Cuesta, Newark, DE, (1998), 123pp, very good, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0936388102 Contents include: Exile and its Implications; From Outcast to Heroic Exemplar; The Afrenta de Corpes: Land, Body, and Blood; Reconfiguring the Political Landscape in the Cid's Apotheosis; and, EL CID as National Hero., (Order No: 38743 ), $20.00
232. Shattuck, Roger, CANDOR AND PERVERSION: LITERATURE, EDUCATION, AND THE ARTS, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, (1999) 1st ed, 415pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 0393048071 In this volume, Roger Shattuck has gathered together 39 of his most impassioned and controversial pieces from the past 16 years, many of which have never before been published., (Order No: 24942 ), $7.50
233. Shirley, James (edited by Jenkin T. Philipps), AN ESSAY TOWARDS AN UNIVERSAL AND RATIONAL GRAMMAR, 1726, The Scolar Press Limited, Menston, England, 1971, 192pp, fine, maroon cloth (hardcover), The ESSAY was issued twice in 1726, once with the title-page reading "An Essay towards a Rational Grammar", with the imprint "London: Printed for W. Meadows, at the Angel in Cornhill", and without the introductory "Essay". The other issue (presumably the second) had a re-set title-page, and included the "Essay"; this issue is reproduced here., (Order No: 47565 ), $60.00
234. Shivers, Frank R., MARYLAND WITS & BALTIMORE BARDS - A LITERARY HISTORY WITH NOTES ON WASHINGTON WRITERS, Johns Hopkins University Pr., Baltimore, MD, (1998) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 339pp, very good++, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0801858100, (Order No: 47582 ), $4.50
235. Silberschlag, Eisig (with translations by Sholom J. Kahn and others), SAUL TSCHERNICHOWSKY: POET OF REVOLT, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1968), B&W illustrations, 209pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The first study in English of the major Hebrew poet., (Order No: 38751 ), $14.50
236. Silz, Walter, HOLDERLIN'S HYPERION: A CRITICAL READING, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadlephia, PA, (1969), 138pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0812276094 HYPERION is a love song consecrated to the poet's three loves: Nature, Greece, and Diotima. But in addition to showing how these themes are revealed, Professor Silz examines the metrical and lyrical aspects of this work by the poet-novelist., (Order No: 44377 ), $12.50
237. Simpson, David, FETISHISM AND IMAGINATION: DICKENS, MELVILLE, CONRAD, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, MD, (1982), 141pp, very good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) closed tear on dj, ISBN 0801828589 Through the works of Dickens, Melville, and Conrad, Simpson explores the ways in which fetishism-excessive, even fixated concentration on one subject or figure-is used to describe the alienation of the human imagination in an uncreative social environment., (Order No: 10603 ), $10.00
238. Smith, Hallett, SHAKESPEARE'S ROMANCES: A STUDY OF SOME WAYS OF THE IMAGINATION, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1972, 244pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner inscription, The focus of this book is on Shakespeare's imagination, and on his inventiveness in the use he made of his sources., (Order No: 47680 ), $12.50
239. Snell, F. J., THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY (VOLUME III FROM THE PERIODS OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE SERIES EDITED BY PROFESSOR SAINTSBURY), William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1899, 428pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover), Contents include: The End of Court-Poetry; Town-Verse and Folk-Song; Rise of a New Lyric; Dante; Dawn of the Renaissance; The Well of English; Time and Space; and, Allegory, Mysticism, and Reform., (Order No: 25764 ), $20.00
240. Solomon, Harry M., THE RAPE OF THE TEXT: READING AND MISREADING POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN, University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, (1993), B&W frontis, 246pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 081730696X A book that shows us how to read AN ESSAY ON MAN., (Order No: 45094 ), $6.00
241. Stephens, Michael, THE DRAMATURGY OF STYLE: VOICE IN SHORT FICTION, Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., Carbondale, IL, (1986), 282pp, very good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 080931231X One of America's best young writers, Stephens describes in clear terms his perception of a contemporary American voice: "There is a cadence which the writer steals from the actual, shaping this rhythm into the voice of fiction. When tension enters into the equation of speech and voice, dramaturgical moments occur. Actors tranform words into living moments. So do writers.", (Order No: 53764 ), $17.50
242. Stevenson, Randall, THE BRITISH NOVEL SINCE THE THIRTIES - AN INTRODUCTION, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA, (1986), 257pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0820308757, (Order No: 44369 ), $5.00
243. Stevick, Philip, THE CHAPTER IN FICTION: THEORIES OF NARRATIVE DIVISION, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, (1970) 1st ed, 188pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0815600704 A critical examination of chapter functions are considered in a five-part conceptual framework: a theoretical basis for chapter division in fiction; the conventions-such as cadence, open ends, and beginnings-that have accumulated in the use of chapters; the relation of the parts to the structure of the novel as a whole; the profound effect of division on the artistic contours, on rhythm and tempo, and progressions that define the nature of proportion in the novel; the historical source and the mutations of the development of chapter division in fiction., (Order No: 14029 ), $12.50
244. Stewart, Philip R., IMITATION AND ILLUSION IN THE FRENCH MEMOIR-NOVEL, 1700-1750: THE ART OF MAKE-BELIEVE, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1969, 350pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Since at the beginning of the eighteenth century the French novel had not yet become established as a serious literary genre, most fictional works masqueraded as historical writings, particularly memoirs. Mr. Stewart examines the body of techniques essential to this camouflage., (Order No: 22845 ), $10.00
245. Stewart, Stanley, THE EXPANDED VOICE: THE ART OF THOMAS TRAHERNE, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1970, 235pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), The author undertakes a thorough analysis of the major writings, both prose and poetry, of Thomas Traherne. In doing so he offers a re-evaluation of Traherne's literary worth and makes a significant contribution to the criticism dealing with this seventeenth-century author., (Order No: 17586 ), $8.50
246. Stillinger, Jack (edited by), THE LETTERS OF CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1966, 437pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), Charles Armitage Brown is best known today for his intimate acquaintance with Keats. This is the first collection of all Brown's extant letters. It includes 142 letters by him, thirteen letters to him or pertaining to his letters, and two related documents; more than half of this material has not been printed before. With the introduction and notes, the collection provides a full study of Brown and brings out several new facts about the Keats circle., (Order No: 13150 ), $6.00
247. Stone, Donald, FRENCH HUMANIST TRAGEDY: A REASSESSMENT, Rowmand and Littlefield, Totowa, NJ, (1974), 231pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874715377 Professor Stone discusses the concepts which determined the nature and function of French humanist tragedy and the importance of those concepts with regard to the genre's relationship to medieval, ancient and French classical drama., (Order No: 14057 ), $7.50
248. Storch, Margaret, SONS AND ADVERSARIES: WOMEN IN WILLIAM BLAKE AND D. H. LAWRENCE, University of Tennessee Pr., Knoxville, TN, (1990) 1st ed, 9 B&W figures, 226pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0870496565 According to the author, Blake and Lawrence are strikingly similar in their ideals of individual and social liberation and in their creative temperament; they are also strikingly alike in their attitudes toward women. This book focuses upon the responses to women of these two male artists, noting that each has an extraordinary sensitivity to women's experience and, at the same time, deep antagonism toward women.To probe this surprising ambivalence, the author applies Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic insights and finds the source of both writers' ambivalence in unresolved conflicts in the infant-mother relationship., (Order No: 13896 ), $7.50
249. Strich, Fritz, GOETHE AND WORLD LITERATURE, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, (1949), 362pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The first part of the book deals with the influence of foreign literatures upon Goethe--the "rousing force" of English literature; the discovery of the Ancients through the medium of Italian art and literature; the impact of French classicism and of the Spanish romances, and the new horizons opened through the Far East and through America. The second part deals with Goethe's influence on European literatures; an influence which in some respects he regretted, for it led to the adoption of ideas which he had himself abandoned., (Order No: 16556 ), $12.50
250. Sussman, Herbert, VICTORIAN MASCULINITIES: MANHOOD AND MASCULINE POETICS IN EARLY VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND ART, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1995), 227pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0521465710 This volume explores ideas of manhood and masculinity as they emerged in the early Victorian period, and traces these through diverse formations in the literature and art of the time., (Order No: 53994 ), $40.00
251. Swados, Harvey (edited by), THE AMERICAN WRITER AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., Indianapolis, IN, (1966) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 521pp, very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), A volume in the "American Heritage Series.", (Order No: 37630 ), $10.00
252. Sweeting, Adam W., READING HOUSES AND BUILDING BOOKS: ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF POPULAR ANTEBELLUM LITERATURE, 1835-1855, Univ. Press of New England, Hanover, NH, (1996) 1st ptg, 25 B&W figures, 230pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0874517508 Author, architect, and landscape designer, Andrew Jackson Downing, more than any other individual, shaped middle-class taste in the United States in the two decades prior to the Civil War. In this study, the author places Downing's works--especially his enormously popular books--in their literary and cultural context, documenting their influence on antebellum American culture., (Order No: 14792 ), $10.00
253. Swinnerton, Frank, BACKGROUND WITH CHORUS: A FOOTNOTE TO CHANGES IN ENGLISH LITERARY FASHION BETWEEN 1901 AND 1917, Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, New York, (1956), 236pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small stain on foreedge, (Order No: 40278 ), $10.00
254. Tambimuttu (edited by), FESTSCHRIFT FOR MARIANNE MOORE'S SEVENTY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY, Tambimuttu & Mass, New York, 1964, B&W illustrations, 137pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The contributions here include: biographical, as for example the reminiscences of her early contemporaries and associates, Malcolm Cowley and Conrad Aiken; personal statements by writers, who describe their first contacts with Miss Moore, and the effect her poetry has had on contemporary literature; essays of pure criticism; and, poems in homage by poets John Ciardi and Richard Wilbur, as well as tributes from poets of the younger generation for whom Marianne Moore has in one way or another been a guide and master., (Order No: 50927 ), $12.50
255. Tatum, James, APULEIUS AND THE GOLDEN ASS, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, (1979), B&W illustrations, 203pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0801411637 The first book-length study in English entirely devoted to THE GOLDEN ASS. Tatum concentrates on the novel's coherence as a literary work and its relation to Apuleius' other writings, particularly his APOLOGY and FLORIDA. He describes its critical reception through the ages, discusses Apuleius' career as a sophist, analyzes Apuleius' use of language, and included illustrations of ancient monuments that shed light on many passages in THE GOLDEN ASS and on some of Apuleius' other writings., (Order No: 47044 ), $100.00
256. Thackeray, Wm. M., THE ENGLISH HUMORISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Willard Small, Boston, 1889, 298pp, very good, blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 15689 ), $12.50
257. Thibodaux, Daivd, JOEL OPPENHEIMER: AN INTRODUCTION, Camden House, Columbia, SC, (1986) 1st ed, B&W frontis, 114pp, fine, maroon cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published, ISBN 0938100394 The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive view of Joel Oppenheimer's canon by examining his main literary themes. "Studies in England and American Literature, Linguistics, and Culture - Vol. 4.", (Order No: 53404 ), $45.00
258. Thomson, W. H., SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS: A HISTORICAL DICTIONARY, Haskell House, New York, 1966, B&W frontis, 320pp, good+, green cloth (hardcover), This volume gives an account of all the historical personages appearing as characters, or referred to, in the English Historical Plays and Macbeth., (Order No: 31432 ), $20.00
259. Tiessen, Paul (edited with an introduction by); essays collected with the assistance of Gordon Bowker, APPARENTLY INCONGRUOUS PARTS - THE WORLDS OF MALCOLM LOWRY, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1990, 230pp, fine, clay colored cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0810822830, (Order No: 31514 ), $35.00
260. Tinker, Chauncey Brewster, THE SALON AND ENGLISH LETTERS: CHAPTERS ON THE INTERRELATIONS OF LITERATURE AND SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF JOHNSON, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1915, B&W illustrations, 290pp, ads, good, dark blue cloth (hardcover), (Order No: 33798 ), $20.00
261. Tolzmann, Don Heinrich, GERMAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Metuchen, NJ, 1977, B&W map, 328pp, very good, orange cloth (hardcover) bump top corners, ISBN 0810810697 The growing interest in ethnic studies and the interest in German-Americana necessitate the publication of this first introductory history on German-American literature., (Order No: 21802 ), $15.00
262. Toronto Arts Group for Human Rights (edited by), THE WRITER AND HUMAN RIGHTS: IN AID OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1983 1st ed, 294pp, very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0385189311 In 1981 over seventy writers from various parts of the world and of diverse political backgrounds and beliefs gathered together to address serious questions and issues on the problem of human rights and the writer's place within the world. Here are many of the speeches which represent the geographical and political balance of this congress., (Order No: 16778 ), $7.50
263. Trowbridge, Hoyt, FROM DRYDEN TO JANE AUSTEN: ESSAYS ON ENGLISH CRITICS AND WRITERS, 1660-1818, Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, (1978) 2nd ptg, 300pp, fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) minute nick top edge, ISBN 0826304303 This broad-ranging collection of essays--some new, some previously published--comments upon a wide variety of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and critical genres and writers., (Order No: 16395 ), $10.00
264. Turnell, Martin, THE NOVEL IN FRANCE: MME DE LA FAYETTE, LACLOS, CONSTANT, STENDHAL, BALZAC, FLAUBERT, PROUST, Hamish Hamilton, London, (1950), 432pp, good w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover), The author examines the work of seven of the greatest French novelists., (Order No: 39793 ), $12.50
265. Turner, Albert Morton, THE MAKING OF THE CLOISTER AND THE HEARTH, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1938), B&W illustrations, 230pp, good+, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 41210 ), $15.00
266. Tuttleton, James W., A FINE SILVER THREAD: ESSAYS ON AMERICAN WRITING AND CRITICISM, Ivan R. Dee, Chicago, IL, 1998, 271pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in, ISBN 1566631815 The author assesses the influence and accomplishments of literary radicalism in the twenties and investigates the treatment of women in the American novel between the two world wars., (Order No: 19130 ), $12.50
267. Venable, Emerson, THE HAMLET PROBLEM AND ITS SOLUTION, Stewart & Kidd Co., Cincinnati, OH, 1912, 107pp, good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover) inscribed by the author, Attempts to explain the unifying motive of the drama., (Order No: 53333 ), $15.00
268. Vines, Sherard, THE COURSE OF ENGLISH CLASSICISM: FROM THE TUDOR TO THE VICTORIAN AGE, Phaeton Press, New York, (1969), 160pp, good, yellow cloth (hardcover), Originally published in 1930. Contents include: The Beginnings; The Rise of Theory; Nature Methodised; The Age of Baroque and the Grand Manner; Politeness and Good Sense; Georgian Developments; and The Later Classicism., (Order No: 33806 ), $10.00
269. von LaRoche, Sophie (translated from the German with a critical introduction by Christa Baguss Britt), THE HISTORY OF LADY SOPHIA STERNHEIM, State University of New York, Albany, NY, (1991) 1st ptg, 246pp, fine, pictorial boards (hardcover), ISBN 079140532X "EXTRACTED BY A WOMAN FRIEND OF THE SAME FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS AND OTHER RELIABLE SOURCES - Published in the Years 1771 and 1772 by C. M. Wieland.", (Order No: 52242 ), $7.00
270. Wallerstein, Ruth C., RICHARD CRASHAW: A STUDY IN STYLE AND POETIC DEVELOPMENT, Lemma Publishing Corporation, New York, 1972, 160pp, very good, clay colored cloth (hardcover), ISBN 0876960360 First published in 1935. Contents include: Crashaw's Life and Inner Growth; School Work: The Latin Epigrams and the Pattern of the Rhetorics; The Translations; Emblem and Impresa: The Maturing of Crashaw's Imagery; and, Style and Spirit Fused., (Order No: 38878 ), $15.00
271. Walsh, William, A HUMAN IDIOM: LITERATURE AND HUMANITY, Barnes & Noble, Inc., New York, (1964), 212pp, good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), The author presents a study of literature as a humanity. He takes a number of literary forms--letters, autobiography, criticism, and philosophical writing, as well as novels, poems, and short stories; and a number of writers--Coleridge, Henry James, Santayana, Leavis, Narayan, D. J. Enright, Brian Glanville; and asks what light they throw on the fundamental business of being human., (Order No: 16491 ), $14.50
272. Watts, Harold H., HOUND AND QUARRY, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, (1953), 304pp, good+, maroon cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket), (Order No: 39217 ), $10.00
273. Weinbrot, Howard D., ALEXANDER POPE AND THE TRADITIONS OF FORMAL VERSE SATIRE, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, (1982), 389pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0691065101 Professor Weinbrot has combined thorough readings of Pope's work with an account of formal verse satire as it developed in the Restoration and the eighteenth century. Summarizing the works of hundreds of minor poets and critics, he recreates much of the climate of thinking about satire during the two centuries when it was most popular and provides a hypothesis for its decline after Pope., (Order No: 45001 ), $125.00
274. Weinbrot, Howard D., THE FORMAL STRAIN - STUDIES IN AUGUSTAN IMITATION AND SATIRE, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (1969), 234pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small closed tear on dj, Studies the background, theory, and practice of the overlapping genres of imitation and formal verse satire during the Restoration and the eighteenth century., (Order No: 50907 ), $4.50
275. Weinstein, Leo, THE SUBVERSIVE TRADITION IN FRENCH LITERATURE: VOLUME I 1721-1870, Twayne Publishers, Boston, (1989), 18 B&W ill., 199pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0805782486 In this first volume, the author embarks on a study of l'art de rouspeter, the protest literature so vital to the history, politics, and culture of France. It covers the period between 1721 and 1870, opening on the last decades of absolute monarchy and tracing the history of the country and its people through the fall of Napoleon III., (Order No: 11005 ), $7.00
276. Weiss, Timothy F., ON THE MARGINS: THE ART OF EXILE IN V. S. NAIPAUL, Univ. of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, MA, (1992), 276pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0870238205 This study explores the theme of exile in the literary career of V. S. Naipaul, approaching the subject from two perspectives: as an idea that recurs in Naipaul's writings and as a personal experience that has shaped his vision of the world., (Order No: 44495 ), $10.00
277. Wershoven, Carol, CHILD BRIDES AND INTRUDERS, Bowling Green State Univ., Bowling Green, OH, (1993), 311pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 087972627X Explores American literary heroines from Nathanial Hawthorne to Gail Godwin covering the classics and lesser-known works. Looks at two disparate types of heroine, producing one picture of American culture. The culture that embraces the mindless child and scorns the questioning women is one in which economic values from - and deform - social identity., (Order No: 38193 ), $20.00
278. Westbrook, Perry D., THE NEW ENGLAND TOWN IN FACT AND FICTION, Fairleign Dickinson Univ. Pr, Rutherford, NJ, (1982), 286pp, good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0838630111 The author examines the New England town as it impinged upon, and molded, the American imagination during two centuries of nationhood., (Order No: 40655 ), $20.00
279. Wheen, Francis (editor), LORD GNOME'S LITERARY COMPANION, Verso, London, (1994), B&W illustrations, 362pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), This book assembles, in thematic order, the best of the columns from the 'Literary Review' section of the satirical magazine Private Eye, to present an astringent, rude and funny survey of publishers and the published., (Order No: 13435 ), $12.50
280. Whipple, Edwin P., THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA, 1888 13th ed, 364pp, very good, green cloth, teg (hardcover), These essays were originally delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute, in the spring of 1859, and were first printed in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY during the years 1867 and 1868., (Order No: 39186 ), $12.00
281. Whitaker, Virgil K., THE MIRROR UP TO NATURE: THE TECHNIQUE OF SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 1965, 332pp, very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's inscription, A study of Shakespeare's tragedies., (Order No: 47443 ), $12.50
282. Whitman, Walt (introductory essay by Quentin Anderson; text notes by Stephen Railton), WALT WHITMAN'S AUTOGRAPH REVISION OF THE ANALYSIS OF LEAVES OF GRASS (FOR DR. R. M. BUCKE'S WALT WHITMAN), New York University Press, New York, 1974, B&W illustrations, 192pp, fine, green cloth (hardcover), The text is based on many and long discussions between Whitman and Bucke and on changes and notes made by Whitman, and so the work was one of virtual collaboration., (Order No: 40962 ), $25.00
283. Williams, Raymond Leslie (editor), THE NOVEL IN THE AMERICAS, Univ. Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO, (1992) 1st ptg, 156pp, fine w/very good dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 0870812718 This book contains thirteen provocative essays by leading writers and scholars of the Americas. These essays touch deeply on issues regarding the role of art and critical thought in modern, or postmodern, cultures. Included are works by Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston, William H. Gass, Larry McCaffrey, and others., (Order No: 16245 ), $14.50
284. Williams, Ioan, THE IDEA OF THE NOVEL IN EUROPE, 1600-1800, New York University Press, New York, 1979, 253pp, fine, wraps (softcover), ISBN 0814791883 A view of the development of the genre in the first two hundred years of its history., (Order No: 16942 ), $7.00
285. Williamson, Marilyn L., THE PATRIARCHY OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1986, 207pp, fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover), ISBN 081431807X The author undertakes a study of the power relationships in Shakespeare's comedies., (Order No: 14754 ), $8.50
286. Winn, James Anderson, "WHEN BEAUTY FIRES THE BLOOD": LOVE AND THE ARTS IN THE AGE OF DRYDEN, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, (1992) 1st ptg, B&W illustrations, 474pp, very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name, ISBN 0472103393 In examining Dryden's artistic practice and theory from this perspective, Winn addresses topics not often noticed in previous studies of Dryden: his technical knowledge of music and painting; his lively sexual imagination; his use of conventional and unconventional notions of gender to flesh out theoretical distinctions; and the contrasting attitudes of his contemporaries, especially those of women writers., (Order No: 44883 ), $15.00
287. Wintz, Cary D. (edited by), THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE - A HISTORY AND AN ANTHOLOGY, Brandywine Press, M