Studies in classic American literature

Açıklama

Lawrence asserted that 'the proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it'. In these highly individual, penetrating essays he has exposed 'the American whole soul' within some of that continent's major works of literature. In seeking to establish the status of writings by such authors as Poe, Melville, Fenimore Cooper and Whitman, Lawrence himself has created a classic work. Studies in Classic American Literature is valuable not only for the light it sheds on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American consciousness, telling 'the truth of the day', but also as a prime example of Lawrence's learning, passion and integrity of judgement.

• History and criticism
• American literature
• American literature, history and criticism
• American literature, history and criticism, 20th century
• New York Times reviewed
• Ps121 .l3 2003
• 810.9
• Criticism and interpretation

Baskılar ve ISBN

2003

Cambridge University Press · İngilizce · 632 sayfa
ISBN 0521550165

1977

Penguin Books · 187 sayfa
ISBN 0140033009

1977

Penguin Books · İngilizce · 187 sayfa
ISBN 0140033009

1964

Heinemann · İngilizce · 168 sayfa
ISBN 0434407240