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An analysis of critical comment on Bly, American poet, critic, translator and political activist.

An indispensible tool for students of Taylor, Puritan writing, and early New England culture, Hammond's book also offers valuable insights to all Americanists interested in how their field developed.

A reception history of the writings of Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden.

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.

This book traces the attempts of successive generations of philosophers and literary critics to expound the works of Schiller and deal with the linguistic and systematic problems they present.

A comprehensive look at the academic criticism of Jane Austen from her time down to the present.

Survey of the criticism devoted to Kafka's The Castle, his final novel.

Wide-ranging survey of the critical reaction provoked by Mann's Doctor Faustus.

A study of the controversy-filled scholarship on Poe from the time of his death to the present.

Overview of the critical history of the German novella.

A study of the literary criticism of the famous and influential German play fragment Woyzeck.

Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.

A pathbreaking consideration of the intertwined critical responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, giants of abolitionist literature.

A study of the journalistic and academic reception of the writings of one of the great American writers of the late twentieth century.