Announcing . . . College English: Modern Literature: Key Concepts

I spent two decades teaching English composition at the college level. In the process I became increasingly dissatisfied with the conventional ways of going about the task--not least, a lack of focus and straightforwardness in explaining the basics of the subject. From my attempts to do better I eventually produced a book following that more straightforward approach, College English: Composition: What Your Textbook isn't Teaching You.

The book, which came out way back in the pre-pandemic, pre-GPT-3.5 year of 2019 got a sufficiently positive reception that I decided to extend my thus far one-volume College English series with a book that would do something similar for modern (post-1700) literature. Specifically it covers a good many hazily discussed essentials of the subject in that more focused, straightforward, rarely-too-attempted way--starting with just what literature actually is anyway (extending to who decides that, and how), and then moving on to concepts ranging from Neoclassicism to naturalism, from Romanticism to postmodernism, while filling in the gaps with examinations of topics ranging from the novel to the ever troublesome relationship between the writer and the politics of their day.

The book is now on sale at Amazon and other retailers. Get your copy today.