Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and
American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion
toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These
developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one,
but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading.
As a result, students and researchers interested in such material
are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of
which relies on dated methodological and ideological
presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing
new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature
classroom and in scholarly debate from James's The Ambassadors to
McCarthy's The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time
"before theory." Instead, they distil the insights of literary and
cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical
background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of
influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free
language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.
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