Modern American Reading Practices

PHILIP GOLDSTEIN is Professor of English, University of Delaware, USA.

• Modern American Reading Practices: Between Aesthetics and History Aesthetic Theory: From Marxist Critique to Cultural History Aesthetics and Reading: Between Theory and History Gothic Romances and the Modern Humanities: The Changing Status of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: From Liberal Realism to Multiculturalism 'Richard Wright's Native Son: Between Naturalist Protest and Modernist Liberation' Identity and Convention in Faulkner's Light in August and Morrison's Jazz The Politics of Sara Paretsky's Detective Fiction Conclusion: From Aesthetics to Reading Practices

"At once lucid and intelligent, Modern American Reading Practices probes the relations between reading and textuality through a series of richly argued case studies.Once again, Goldstein pushes the boundaries of reception theory into new territory." - Tony Bennett, Professor of Sociology, The Open University