Breakfast with the Cumaean sibyl, or, A poet's education
Don't know much about history : sameness versus originality in poetry
Is there a Southern poetry?
The poet as pitchman : James Dickey, American poet
Emerson, Poe, and American criticism in the nineteenth century
Slouching toward Baltimore : twentieth-century literary criticism
Mr. Post-everything : the life and times of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
"The thing you can't explain" : theory and the unconscious
Reviewers in the popular press and their impact on the novel
M.L. Rosenthal and our life in poetry
Ghosts and gadabouts : gothic and picaresque in the American novel
Born in the marketplace : the emergence of the American novel
It isn't about America, it is America : Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn
