Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist. His argument that all literary texts are a strong misreading of those that precede them had an enormous impact on the practice of criticism and post-structuralist literary theory. The book...

"In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood"--

Presents a collection of essays by leading academic critics on the structure, characters, and themes of the novel, an early classic work on the lives of African American women written in the 1930s.

Contains selections of literary criticism written between 1813 and 1913 that look at the life, general career, and specific works of English novelist Jane Austen.

A collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.

A collection of critical essays on Williams and his works arranged in chronological order of publication.

Presents criticism on Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities." Features an introduction by Harold Bloom and a collection of essays by an array of scholars.