Product Description: The prototype of the modern man of letters as a man of business, Harte epitomized the professional writer in America immediately after the Civil War. Nor was his career short-lived. His collected writings run to twenty-five volumes, and his tales were regularly translated into German, French, Italian, Swedish, Russian, and other languages...read more

Product Description: The Scarlet Letter is virtually unique among works of American fiction because it has not lapsed from print in over 140 years. The history of its reception, which is fully articulated in the volume introduction, may be read as a case study in canon formation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This study carefully constructs a biography of Horatio Alger's more talented but much less widely known cousin.

Product Description: Approximately 2600 entries, including reviews, news reports, a selection of obituaries, and reviews of all 19th-century book-length studies of Hawthorne's life and literary career.

Product Description: New in Paperback! Gilman (1860-1935), best known today for 'The Yellow Wall-paper' and Women and Economics and a prolific writer, was virtually forgotten until the 1970s. Even now her publications are still largle inaccessible, and this first comprehensive bibliography traces the original appearances of her works, their republications, and their translations...read more

Product Description: Documents the evolution of popular opinion about Alger's works.