Studies in Classic American Literature

Landmark volume of D. H. Lawrence's writings on American literature including major essays on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman.

List of contents

General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Studies in Classic American Literature: Final version (1923); First version (1918-19); Intermediate version (1919); Appendices: 1. Reading notes for The Scarlet Letter; 2. Foreword to Studies in Classic American Literature (1920); 3. Foreword (1922); 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance (1920-1); 5. XIII.Whitman (1921-2); 6. XII.Whitman (1922); Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Variorum apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence; Index.

About the author

Ezra Greenspan is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He writes widely about modern American literature and is the co-editor of Book History.Lindeth Vasey is Editorial Manager: Classics at Penguin UK Ltd. She has edited several books in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence including Mr Noon and (with John Worthen) The First 'Women in Love'.John Worthen is Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has written and edited many books relating to D. H. Lawrence and is author of The Early Years, the first volume in the three-volume biography of D. H. Lawrence (1991).

Product details

• Authors: D. H. Lawrence
• Assisted by: Ezra Greenspan (Editor), Lindeth Vasey (Editor), Vasey Lindeth (Editor), Worthen John (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9781107457508
• ISBN: 978-1-107-45750-8
• No. of pages: 714
• Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works; The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, American English, Literary studies: general