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The nature and leading exponents of the structuralist movement are considered together with the structural poetics of fiction and drama.

Features poems such as "The Hours of the Day", "First Poems", "Heroes", and "Notes from Greece". "The Hours of the Day" is a long meditative sequence set in Vermont; here the square-shaped poems become the crown glass windowpanes of the farmhouse itself.

Before the 19th century, American prisons were used to hold people for trial and not to incarcerate them for wrong-doing. After independence, states began to reject such public punishment as whipping and pillorying and turn to imprisonment instead. Hirsch explores the reasons behind this change.

Illuminating the relation between education and other broad changes in American society, this text examines aspects of American schooling over the past centuries. It also provides a historical perspective for contemporary efforts at school reform.

This concerns the dignity and the degradation of labour. Work has great power to undermine or to foster happiness. Bernard feels the moral dimension of labour has been neglected in political theory and practice and he aims to restore productive labour to its place in moral and political debate.

Looks at Twain's relations with his wife and her family and at his attitudes towards business, money, art, sex and the little girls whose company he sought during his later years. Originally seen as an emblematic figure, it argues Twain became alienated from society and from his writings.

These letters chart the development of the American psychoanalytic community through exchanges with such distinguished figures in American psychiatry as E.E. Southard, Adolf Meyer, Abraham Myerson, William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe, and Franz Alexander. Provides a vivid picture of the early