Literary Criticism from Diatrope Books

Pantheon, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 7x5x1. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Slight chipping on dust jacket. 201p. Measures 6x8.5 inches. A tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket (clipped) under clear mylar cover. Black-and-white illustrations. The author has gone back to original sources to rediscover Stevenson the rebel, who broke the bounds of middle-class tradition, rejected convention, and wrote some of the most famous books in the English language. 145p. Measures 6.75x9.75 inches. Robert… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1963. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Fourth printing. Revised edition with a new introduction and an updated bibliography. Index. 169p. Measures 5.25x8 inches. This book is a practical guidebook to the work of Virginia Woolf that uses many of her own writings to present a critical summary of her method and achievement.

Manchester University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Unmarked text. Scuffing and some crinkling on dust jacket (unclipped), under clear mylar cover. 218 black-and-white illustrations. Classified Bibliography. Index. A comprehensive and detailed historical survey of illustrations to John Milton executed in England between 1688 and 1860. This book is concerned with his influence over painting and graphic art.

William Morrow, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Illustrated end papers. Gregory Maguire, author and former children's literature professor, offers an appreciation of Sendak. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 200p. Measures 8.5x10.25 inches.

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Dust jacket with price sticker on inside front flap under clear mylar cover. Some rubbing and chipping on dust jacket. Figures and tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. 349p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). Presented in two parts. Part I… Read more about this item

Archon Books, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket, with some edge wear, under clear mylar cover. Four interviews: Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller and Paul De Man. Each of the four thinker's is pictured. 168p. Measures 5.75x8.75 inches.

University of Chicago Press, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Explores Wordsworth's debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. 303p. Index. Notes.

Yale University Press, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked. This book examines how Emerson's assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly shaped the careers of his young acolytes--including Henry David Thoreau, renowned journalist and women

University of Chicago Press, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Combining biography and intellectual history, philosophical and political passion, Camus and Sartre demonstrates how Camus and Sartre developed first in connection with and then against each other, each keeping the other in his sights long after their break. 291p. Notes. References. Index.

Columbia University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Ex-library. Unmarked text. Aside from the library stamp on front end page, and card at the back, the book is in fine condition. Dust jacket under clear protective cover. 21 black-and-white illustrations. Illuminates the lives and works of Gertrude Stein and Bernard Fay. 276p. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches.

Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Black-and-white illustrations. 294p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Examines our beliefs about literary fame by asking how it actually comes about. Offers new and unorthodox accounts of the coming-to-fame of some of Britain's most revered authors (Jane Austin, Keats, etc) and compares their reputations and afterlives with those of their contemporary… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Black-and-white illustrations. 292p. Measures 6.25x9.25 inches. Looks at the roles of American writers in helping to shape national opinion and policy during the First World War. Authors include Henry James, Edith Wharton, Grace Fallow Norton, Mary Borden, Ellen La Motte, E. E. Cummings, and John Dos Passos. Draws… Read more about this item

Yale University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Robert Scholes intervenes in ongoing discussions about modernism in the arts during the crucial half-century from 1895 to 1945. Examines literary texts, drawings, critical writings, and memoirs. 320p. Measures 6x8.5 inches.

University of Texas Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Some crinkling of cover lamination. Illustrated. Explores the work of two dozen women, including Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Beach, Kay Boyle, Colette, Anais Nin, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and others. Index. 518p.

La Stamperia Di Venezia Editrice, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. English text and Italian translation printed side-by-side. Translated into Italian by Dario Calimani. Authors include William Shakespeare, Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, Ann Radcliffe, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Walter Pter, David Herbert Lawrence, Sir Richard Guylforde, Richard Torkington, Roger Ascham, Thomas Coryat, Daniel… Read more about this item

University of Alabama Press, 1975. Paperback. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with some edge wear and age tanning. Translated by George C. Buck. Classic study of Mann's artistic achievement and the conflict in his public life. Bibliography. Index of Mann's work. Index of names. 261p. Measures 5.75x8.75 inches.

Metropolitan Books, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. First American edition. Eleven black-and-white portraits by the legendary Italian photographer Giuseppe Bruno. 115p. Measures 5.25x7.75 inches. Harold Brodkey's (1930-1996) portrait of his most beloved city combines passages from several of Brodkey's great works with previously unpublished notes and essays.

Charleston Trust, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. This journal is targeted to people interested in Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury. Articles in this issue include "I Tatti: A Question of Labels" by Duncan Grant, "Ann Akhmatova and Boris Anrep" by Annabel Farjeon, four previously unpublished letters by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (introduced by Joanne Tratumann Banks),… Read more about this item

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Forum on Literature, Aesthetics and Canonicity in the 18th Century" by Richard Terry with responses from Thomas P. Miller and Clifford Siskin. Contributors include Terence Bowers, Jacqueline LeBlanc, T.G.A. Nelson, Donald T. Siebert. 139p. Measures 6x9 inches.