|9780822984740|Henry James and the Legacy of Hawthorne|The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates JamesÆ transformation of HawthorneÆs romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of JamesÆ early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.| Robert Emmet Long|| Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / General

|9780822984894|The Works of Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William H. Gass|McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term “metafiction” here refers to a strain in American writing where the self-concious approach to the art of fiction-making is a commentary on the nature of meaning itself.| Larry McCaffery|| Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General