Continuities
Subtitle: essays and ideas in American literature
By: Marvin Fisher.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Most essays previously published.
Table of contents: title: The pattern of conservatism in Johnson's Rasselas and Hawthorne's tales; title: Bartleby, Melville's circumscribed scrivener; title: Benito Cereno; title: The centrality of Walt Whitman; title: Pudd'nhead Wilson; title: Do not bring your dog; title: No more water, the fire next time.