In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers

An important resource for educators who desire to use literary texts in cultivating vocational exploration among students or in scholarship on vocation.

Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it t

A unique survey and interpretive history, spanning 200 years, of the American bestseller.

In The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885: Jeffersonian Afterlives, Peter Templeton presents a wide-ranging and systematic evaluation of past