THE MIDDLE WAY
Puritanism and Ideology in
A merican Romantic Fiction
by MICHAEL
T.
GILMORE. The author presents Hawthorne, Melville, and
Henry James as nineteenth-century romantic writers who practice, in their
art, the same principle that their Puritan ancestors believed in: that one
should steer a middle course between extremes of spirituality and materialism.
S12.00
MOBY-DICK
AND CALVINISM
A World Dismantled
by T. WALTER HERBERT, JR . In this innovative study, Herbert uses
Melville's family papers and the classics of Calvinist belief to show how
Moby-Dick
dramatizes Melville's spiritual struggle in a culture that was
beginning to reject the theological world view that had so long dominated it .
$12.50
MODERN AMERICAN LYRIC
Lowell, Berryman,
Cree ley, and Plath
by ARTHUR OBERG. The author, a poet himself, writes about what
happens to love and to the lyric or love poem in the work of these four
poets. He studies them not as confessional poets but in the larger context of
their contemporaries and of older modern poets.
Sl1.00
THE IDEA OF THE GARDEN IN THE RENAISSANCE
by TERRY COMITO. This is the first book linking literary texts and actual
gardens to define a tradition of a particular cultural period . Comito shows
how the activities of monks and poets, philosophers and lovers are set in
the "sacred space" of gardens as aspects of the search for Paradise.
$15 .00
THE STYLISTIC LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON
by WILLIAM VESTERMAN . This careful critical analysis of some of
Johnson's best-known writings demonstrates that his artistic consciousness
and writing style evolved over the years, contradicting Boswell's assumption
that the nature of Johnson 's imagination was fi xed and timeless.
S10.00
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