This collection of essays places issues central to literary study, particularly the question of the canon, in the context of institutional practices in American

The essays in this volume represent the author's effort to reconstruct American literature by establishing a theory of "canonical criticism", which aims to open

The Canonical Debate Today. Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries re-enacts the canonical issues current in the ’90s from a new perspective, triggered

Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and positio

An enlarged edition to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of John Guillory’s formative text on the literary canon. Since its publication in 1993, John Guillo