… "I had such a good time reading Loren Glass’s study of the … "Loren Glass tells a terrific story,
detailing the rise and fall of … A riveting and highly entertaining narrative, Glass’s book offers a …

… Through these classic American authors, Loren Glass reveals the degree to which literary …
century up through its contemporary manifestations, Glass focuses on how individual authors …

Waging what he characterized as “‘a very cold, deliberate attack on censorship,’” Barney
Rosset, owner of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review, decided in 1959 that he would issue …

Responsible for such landmark publications as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer,
Naked Lunch, Waiting for Godot, The Wretched of the Earth, and The Autobiography of …

The publication in 2009 of Mark McGurl’s The Program Era provoked a sea change in the
study of postwar literature. Even though almost every English department in the United States …

This chapter presents a brief history of a literary celebrity. Byron was one of the first literary
celebrities running up through Hemingway and beyond who felt obligated to undergo the …

Most Hemingway scholars are familiar with the anecdote regarding Maxwell Perkins’s
squeamishness when it came to discussing editorial changes in A Farewell to Arms. According to …

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this opposition has tended, in turn, to map onto the tension between playwright and director. …

Philip Roth invented Nathan Zuckerman to manage the temporal dissonance between the
gradual and frequently posthumous canonization associated with Roth's modernist forebears …

at the very end of manfred, the title character's last speech is briefly ii interrupted by a spirit
who has come to claim him for the underworld. The spirit breaks in to remind Manfred of …