Overview :Revised and updated based on instructor feedback, this Second Edition presents key works from the colonial period to the present era. New se... Read More
Overview :How do minds cause events in the world? How does wanting to write a letter cause a person's hands to move across the page, or believing some... Read More
Overview :God occupies our nation's consciousness, even defining to many what it means to be American. Nonbelievers have often had second-class legal ... Read More
Overview :A defense and celebration of the discipline of literary studies and its most distinctive practice--close reading. Does literary criticism o... Read More
Overview :"Behind this study lie two questions. Why is Bolingbroke, known primarily as a rationalist philosopher of the Enlightenment, so worshipped b... Read More
Overview :How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that addresses probl... Read More
Overview :The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of Americ... Read More
Overview :Jonathan Brody Kramnick's book examines the formation of the English canon over the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century. Kramnick det... Read More