Description
This is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers. -- J. Hillis Miller American Hieroglyphics is a major reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century American literary imagination. Nineteenth-Century Fiction
About the Author
John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His books include F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence"; Hart Crane's Poetry: "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"; The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story; and Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir.
Book Information
ISBN 9781421421155
Author John T. Irwin
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 544g