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Eric Carl Link
Offers a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London created their most significant work. The…
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Author of more than forty novels and myriad short stories over a three-decade literary career, Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) single-handedly reshaped twentieth-century science fiction. Eric Carl Link introduces readers to…
This Critical Insights volume discusses Herman Melville, one of America’s preeminent writers. Essays include a brief biography, a discussion of the critical reception of his work, his views on faith…
As Eric Carl Link writes in his introduction to this volume in the Critical Insights series, Red Badge is much more than a war novel - it is a drama…
This Companion explores the relationship between American science fiction and its roots in the American cultural experience. Essays address not only the history of science fiction in America but also…
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Global in perspective and transmedia in approach, The Cambridge History of Science Fiction provides the first comprehensive history of science fiction literature, film, television, and culture from its ancient and…
Philip K Dick (1928-1982) reshaped 20th-century science fiction. Viewing his subject as foremost a novelist of ideas, this book surveys Dick’s own tragicomic biography, his craft and career, and the…
Edgar Lee Masters
A title, in which, every character is dead. And the dead speak. The speakers lie together in a graveyard in a small, rural community in central Illinois. As they moulder…
Stephen Crane
This Norton Critical Edition of Stephen Crane’s classic 1895 Civil War novel is again based on the first published edition, conservatively edited.
