William E Cain
Biographic Data
| ID | 367955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William E Cain |
| GIVEN NAMES | William E |
| FAMILY NAME | Cain |
| SIGNATURE | CAIN W E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Robert D. Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
Trilling's Strategic Ambivalence
Making American History
American Dreaming: Really Reading The Great Gatsby
Judith Saunders. American Classics: Evolutionary Perspectives
The End of Capitalism: Eugene V. Debs and the Argument for Socialism in America
Bondage and Freedom: Why We Must Read Frederick Douglass
Thoreau in the 21st Century
Kazin on Dreiser: What it Means to be a Literary Critic
Reading The American Political Tradition in the 21st Century
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction: Shakespeare at 400
Sentencing: Hemingway's Aesthetic
Irving Howe: A Revaluation
Reading Tocqueville
William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: History, Legacy, and Memory
This book is a solid but limited contribution to the study of the abolitionist and radical reformer William Lloyd Garrison. Emerging in part from a 2005 conference on the twohundredth anniversary of Garrison's birth, William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred begins with James Brewer Stewart's preface outlining the book's contents. David W. Blight follows with a sketch of Garrison's life and work. Next, Richard J. M. Blackett surveys Garrison and his …
Lincoln in Our Time
Declaring independence
A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau
As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in some ways a perfect candidate for the historical and biographical treatments made possible by the Historical Guides to American Authors series format. William E. Cain, the volume editor, includes contributions on his relationship with 19th century authority and concepts of the land, wh…
C. L. R. James: His Intellectual Legacies
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Journal Article Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline. By David R. Shumway. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. xiv, 407 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8166-2188-8. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8166-2189-6.) Get access William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Hist…
William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery: "Selections from "The Liberator
The Making of Middlebrow Culture
Journal Article The Making of Middlebrow Culture. By Joan Shelley Rubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxii + 416 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2010-5. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4354-7.) Get access William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1657–1658, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Double Agent: The Critic and Society
The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World
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Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
New Directions in Afro-American Literary Criticism
The Making of Middlebrow Culture
Journal Article The Making of Middlebrow Culture. By Joan Shelley Rubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxii + 416 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2010-5. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4354-7.) Get access William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1657–1658, https://doi.org/10.2307…
William Lloyd Garrison and the Fight against Slavery: "Selections from "The Liberator
Violence, Revolution, and the Cost of Freedom: John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois
Reading Tocqueville
The Resisting Critic and the Politics of Reception
Milton and His Epic Tradition
The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams by Lesley Johnson
Book Review| October 01 1980 The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams by Lesley Johnson The Cultural Critics: From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams. By Johnson, Lesley. London, Boston and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. Pp. viii, 235. $21.95. William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (4): 458–459. https://doi.org/10.1…
F. R. Leavis by William Walsh
Book Review| July 01 1981 F. R. Leavis by William Walsh F. R. Leavis. By Walsh, William. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. Pp. 189. $15.00. William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1981) 80 (3): 367–368. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-80-3-367 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation W…
Reflections on the Milton Industry
The Institutionalization of the New Criticism
In this essay I shall argue that the New Criticism is alive and well. To say this may seem perverse, since there is such general agreement that the New Criticism has lost its prestige and authority. All of us are keenly aware of its failings: it ignores the reader's role, denies the importance of authorial intention, cuts off literature from history, and favors some groups of texts (metaphysical poetry, for example) at the expense of others (Roma…
Penshurst: The Semiotics of Place and the Poetics of History
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The Resisting Critic and the Politics of Reception
Texts, Economics, Knowledge
After Strange Texts: The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature
Criticism and Politics: F. O. Matthiessen and the Making of Henry James
PROBABLY more so than any other modern critic, F. O. Matthiessen legitimated the study of literature. Not only did he define and develop the basic analytical method-a close reading of texts keyed to the articulation of central American myths and symbols-but he also did much to establish the canon of major authors. Matthiessen was not, of course, the first person to examine the writings of T. S. Eliot, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitma…
The Critic Agonistes: Psychology, Myth, and the Art of Fiction by Daniel Weiss
Book Review| January 01 1987 The Critic Agonistes: Psychology, Myth, and the Art of Fiction by Daniel Weiss The Critic Agonistes: Psychology, Myth, and the Art of Fiction. By Weiss, Daniel, Edited by Solomon, Eric; Arkin, Stephen. Foreword by Richard Ellmann. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 270. $25.00. William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google S…
Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens
F. O. Matthiessen’s Labor of Translation: From Sarah Orne Jewett to T. S. Eliot
Research Article| April 01 1988 F. O. Matthiessen’s Labor of Translation: From Sarah Orne Jewett to T. S. Eliot William E. Cain William E. Cain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1988) 87 (2): 355–384. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-87-2-355 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation William E. Cain; F. O. Matthiessen’s Labor of Translation:…
Notes toward a History of Anti-Criticism
NUMBER OF SCHOLARS, including Gerald Graff, Frank Lentricchia, and Richard Ohmann, have written (or are in midst of writing) exemplary histories of modern criticism.1 Thinking about these histories of however, prompts me to speculate whether there is a related, but not identical, history that consists of a range of ideas, attitudes, practices, and values that we would not exactly want to label criticism, but something else. I am intrigued as much…
F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism
F.O. Matthiessen remains one of America s leading twentieth-century critics in part because the problems he and his contemporaries struggled with remain ours today. William E. Cain studies Matthiessen s career with careful attention to biographical, institutional, literary, and political He considers Matthiessen s many reviews and essays on literature and deals sympathetically, but critically, with Matthiessen s attitudes toward the Cold War as r…
F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism
Tradition, History, and the Afro-American Novel
The Kenyon Review, 1939-1970: A Critical History
Violence, Revolution, and the Cost of Freedom: John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois
Criticism and the People
Review of The Company of Critics: Social Criticism and Political Commitment in the Twentieth Century by Michael Walzer.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
New Directions in Afro-American Literary Criticism
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
Canons and Contexts
The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World
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The Making of Middlebrow Culture
Journal Article The Making of Middlebrow Culture. By Joan Shelley Rubin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xxii + 416 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2010-5. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4354-7.) Get access William E. Cain William E. Cain Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1657–1658, https://doi.org/10.2307…
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