American Audacity
Subtitle: Literary Essays North and South (Writers on Writing)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: September 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780472116263
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American literature; History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Regionalism in literature
Description: "One of the foremost critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his brilliant and incisive essays. Benfey's writings have helped us reimagine the American literary canon. In American Audacity, Benfey gathers his finest work on eminent American authors, bringing to his subjects - as the New York Times Book Review has said of his earlier work - "a scholar's thoroughness, a critic's astuteness and a storyteller's sense of drama."" "Although Benfey's interests range from art to literature to social history, this collection focuses on particular American writers and the various ways in which an American identity and culture inform their work."--Jacket.