American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon
Library of America, October 2019. First Edition. Cloth. Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another--how literary traditions are..... More