The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon

by Harold Bloom and David Mikics

Book Overview

Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth.

No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another--how literary traditions are made--and no writer has helped readers understand this better, than Harold Bloom. Over the course of a remarkable sixty-year career, in such bestselling books as The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598536400
• ISBN13: 9781598536409
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"