When Laura R. Fisher began the research that would become her recently released book, Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era, she thought she was looking for ...

In 1989 Harvard published A New History of French Literature, edited by Denis Hollier, and in 2004 A New History of German Literature, edited by David Wellbery; this book represents an entirely ...

I WANT to talk about the historical interpretation of literature — that is, about the interpretation of literature in its social, economic, and political aspects. To begin with, it will be worth while ...

I hope you will allow me to respond to James W. Tuttleton’s remarks (in “Rewriting the History of American Literature,” November, 1986) on my two collections of essays and on the projected ...

If you're a true literature-lover, reading books simply isn't enough. You also want to read books about your favorite books and the talented authors who wrote them. Luckily for you, there are plenty ...

THE tendency to consider centuries as natural periods in the history of culture, and their termini as milestones, indicates a mental habit that is far from logical, but it is one that men do not ...

The villains of Lisey’s Story, Stephen King‘s 2006 book about a famous novelist’s widow, are dubbed Incunks — crazed academics and collectors who want nothing more than to obtain a dead writer’s every ...