Charles Sealsfield, a runaway Moravian monk, reinvented himself as an American author and the self-proclaimed founder of a new novel form. Now long forgotten, his fiction, travel books and correspondence reassess his contribution to the American and German canons.  Meer

The study situates Norman Mailer in the tradition of Modernism, showing how he imbibed the worldview of a coterie of male modernist writers who imposed their notions of art and literature and politics on the movement.  Meer