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A descriptive catalog of one of the world's largest collections of Milton and Miltoniana

Robert J. Wickenheiser started his Milton collection as a graduate student at the University of…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516744/Narrating-Scotland
A reading of Stevenson as a historian at odds with tradition

Beloved for generations as one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most thrilling adventure novels, Kidnapped tells the story of Dav…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516768/The-Triumph-of-Imperfection
European Romanticism inverted and reassessed, with an eye to contemporary debates

In this sequel to his Harry Levin Prize-winning The Taming of Romanticism, Virgil Nemoianu expands his…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516771/Understanding-Michael-Frayn
An insightful guide to the career of the multifaceted playwright, novelist, and translator

Best known for his play Noises Off, Michael Frayn has garnered widespread critical acclaim and…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516796/Understanding-Will-Self
The first scholarly approach to the "dirty magical realism" of Self's fiction

Understanding Will Self introduces readers to the satire and expressive ingenuity of a British writer who h…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516905/The-Passions-of-Modernism
An alternative approach to modernism as confronting helplessness and passivity

Upending the traditional view of modernism as defined by skepticism and emotional detachment, Anthony Cuda…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516961/Unvarnishing-Reality
Unvarnishing Reality draws original insight to the literature, politics, history, and culture of the cold war by closely examining the themes and goals of American and Russian satirical fictio…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516950/Modernist-Humanism-and-the-Men-of-1914
An original approach to modernism in which skepticism and pessimism are usurped by humanist values and virtues.

Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914 is a defense of literary modernism…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516738/Understanding-Penelope-Fitzgerald
A detailed overview of one of England's great fiction writers during the last century

Peter Wolfe's study of Penelope Fitzgerald's canon illuminates writings he characterizes as possess…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4516885/Understanding-Robert-Musil
Deft analysis of the fiction, theater, and essays of the author of The Man without Qualities

In this critical introduction to the major works of Austrian modernist writer Robert Musil (…]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:07:00 -0800