Darrel Abel

preface this account of American literature attempts to describe and interpret American writing in relation to the characters and personal circumstances of the men who wrote it and to the social and political tendencies which conditioned their writing. It assumes that a work's meaning is not all...

Preface This is a collection of interpretive essays on major works, major writers, and a few major strains of American literature. It is designed to serve the student and the inquiring reader as a running commentary on the basic texts. In choosing essays for this volume, we have had a bias in...