Books written by Tony Tanner

Henry James

... WILDE : James Laver WORDSWORTH : Helen Darbishire Twentieth Century : ACHEBE : A. Ravenscroft ARDEN : Glenda Leeming AUDEN : Richard Hoggart BECKETT : J - J . Mayoux BELLOC : Renée Haynes BENNETT : Frank Swinnerton ( 1950 ) BENNETT ...
Henry James: A Selection of Critical Essays

Newman goes through gray and silent streets of the Faubourg St Germain, whose houses present to the outer world a face as impassive and as suggestive of the concentration of privacy within as the blank walls of Eastern seraglios.
Henry James

Henry James
The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo

Throughout his essays , the image of the ' wall ' serves as the most extreme abuse . " Suffice it for the joy of the universe , that we have not arrived at a wall , but at interminable oceans ' ( ' Experience ” ) .
Venice Desired

" It also, as this book tries to show, plays a crucial role in the development of modern writing.
Jane Austen

Analyzes each of Austen's novels, from Northanger Abbey to Sandition, describes her portrayal of society and education, and discusses her use of language
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories

This wide-ranging collection of stories will prove absorbing and thoroughly entertaining readingfor anyone with an interest in the sea and its literature.
Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression

(“Quant au reste du monde, il était perdu, sans place précise, et comme n'existant pas. ... Instead she will engage in another pardoxical and ultimately self-destroying project; finding the far within the near, the loin in the voisine.
Thomas Pynchon

Against the background of Pynchon the man, this book, originally published in 1982, examines in detail his early short stories (some of which are not easily accessible) and offers a guide to the reading of his novels, V., The Crying of Lot ...
City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970

Malamud, Bernard; Mailer, Norman; Kesey, Ken; Bellows, Saul; Roth, Philip; Conroy, Frank; Percy, Walker; Plath, Sylvia; Sontag, Susan; Gass, William.
Thomas Pynchon

Against the background of Pynchon the man, this book examines in detail his early short stories (some of which are not easily accessible) and offers a guide to the reading...
A Pocketful of Poems

A Pocketful of Poems