Books like Why Read Moby-Dick?

#1

Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850 Seducing the Reader

Corrina Readioff

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Modern

#2

The Professor and the Madman A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Modern

#3

The Sinner and the Saint Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment

Kevin Birmingham

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Modern

#4

The Haunted Wood A History of Childhood Reading

Sam Leith

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Modern

#5

Model Women of the Press Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850-1880

Teja Varma Pusapati

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Modern

#6

Dickens the Enchanter Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

Peter Conrad

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Modern

#7

Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/ Great Expectations

Nicolas Tredell

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Modern

#8

Mark Twain’s Audience A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain

Robert McParland

Themes: Books & Reading • 19th Century • Literary Criticism

#9

There Is Simply Too Much to Think About Collected Nonfiction

Saul Bellow

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Literary Criticism

#10

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Literary Criticism

#11

The Errant Art of Moby-Dick The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies

William V. Spanos

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Literary Criticism

#12

The Writer’s Library The Authors You Love on the Books that Changed Their Lives

Nancy Pearl

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Literary Criticism

#13

New Directions in Print Culture Studies Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

Jesse W. Schwartz

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Literary Criticism

#14

Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place

Alice Sundman

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Literary Criticism

#15

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Beautiful and Damned” New Critical Essays

William Blazek

Themes: Books & Reading • Modern • Literary Criticism

#16

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

John Evelev

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#17

Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing

J. Taylor

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#18

Experience and Faith The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson

R. Brantley

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#19

Maladies of the Will The American Novel and the Modernity Problem

Jennifer L. Fleissner

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#20

Engaging Italy American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks

Etta M. Madden

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#21

Inquiries And Opinions (1908)

Brander Matthews

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#22

Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900

Sandra M. Gustafson

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#23

Melville His World and Work

Andrew Delbanco

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism

#24

Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative After Proust Prose Pictures and Fictional Recollection

Leonid Bilmes

Themes: 19th Century • Modern • Literary Criticism