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VULNERABLE PEOPLE
A View ojAmerican Fiction Since 1945
Josephine Hendn·n, TheNew School for Social Research.
"People are coming
to novels for knowledge of themselves;' says the author. Her book offers
telling insights into the works ofVonnegut, Bellow, Updike, Didion, and
others-and into how we live our lives. $11.95
MANAND WOMAN
A Study ojLove and the
Novel 1740-1940
A.O.J. Cockshut.
This study ofsexual relations in the English novel from
Richardson and Fielding to D.H. Lawrence and E.M . Forster demon–
strates why
c.P.
Snow has said, "I admire Mr. Cockshut as much as 1
admire any English academic now
writing~'
$10.50
A GATHERED CHURCH
The Literature oJthe English Dissenting Interest 1700-1930
Donald Davie, Stanford University.
This absorbing study of the dissenting
voices in English literature, religion, and politics shatters the common
stereotypes ofthese non-conformists as philistines, while isolating a
distinctly Calvinist aesthetic in their writings. $9.95
THE
MYSTERIES OF IDENTITY
A Theme in Modern Literature
Robert Langbaum, University of Virginia.
Blending intellectual history and
literary criticism, Langbaum examines changing attitudes toward the
question ofidentity in modern literature-specifically in the works of
Wordsworth, Arnold, Eliot, Beckett, Yeats, and Lawrence. $14.95
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