The moral obligation to be intelligent
First published 2000 · 582 pages
About this book
Collects essays on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Keats, Wordsworth, Frost, and "Mansfield Park," and includes the preface to the author's "The Liberal Imagination."
- American literature
- English literature
- History and criticism
- Intellect
- Criticism and interpretation
- American essays
- Intelligence
- Critique et interprétation
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