Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

“This collection brings together an impressive group of established and young scholars to produce a multi-layered, theoretically complex approach to the practices of Latino/a criticism.  These essays continue the dialogue about ambivalent identities and the usefulness (or lack thereof) of contemporary literary theory in helping scholars tease out the meaning of Latino/a texts.  It should prove a valuable and popular text for scholars and students of Latino/a literature.”--Lisa Paravisini, Vassar College

A Short History of English Literature (Second Edition)

`It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousands of useful facts.' - Times Educational Supplement

Colonial Strangers: Women Writing the End of the British Empire

Colonial Strangers reveals how the literary responses of key artists represent not only compelling reading, but also a necessary intervention in colonial and postcolonial debates and the canons of modern British fiction.

Not Even Past: Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten (American Literatures Initiative)

"This is the beginning of a cultural moment for critical studies of race and trauma, and Stringer makes a timely and eloquent foray into that field."--Gwen Bergner, West Virginia University

George Saintsbury- Matthew Arnold

George Saintsbury writes about Matthew Arnold in the "Modern English Writers" series published by Blackwood & Sons. He writes, "I have endeavoured, in dealing with the master of all English critics in the latter half of nineteenth century 'to help the reader who wants criticism.'" The book gives a brief biographical sketch of Matthew Arnold and later discusses his works.