Maintaining a Place: Conditions of Metaphor in Modern American Literature

Publisher Marketing: This international collection of critical and creative work offers compelling responses to the specifics of 'tradition' and 'place' in the face of the formal and thematic challenges of the modern at particular moments in the aesthetic development of American literature.

Contributor Bio:  Stuart, Maria Domhnall Mitchell is Professor of 19th century American Literature in the Department of Modern Languages at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Contributor Bio:  Dillane, Fionnuala Fionnuala Dillane researches and teaches at the School of English, Drama and Film Studies, University College Dublin.