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A study of detective and crime fiction and film from the 1920s to the present day that challenges the commonplace perception that narratives depend heavily on plot for their effects.

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such nonverbal marks (or their absence) have on an author...

Lee Clark Mitchell is the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres and a professor of English at Princeton University.¿He is the author of¿Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels, ¿Westerns:¿Making the Man in Fiction and Film, and Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, among other books. ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿

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IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Popular Appeal2. Still Landscapes and Moral Restraint3. Falling Short4. Sexual Equality5. White Slaves in Purple Sage6. A Man Being Beaten7. Sentimental Educations8. Violence Begets9. Last RitesNotesIndex

Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political), Lee Clark Mitchell joins a burgeoning neo-formalist movement in challenging readers to embrace a rationale for literary criticism that has too long been ignored-a neglect that corresponds, perhaps not coinc...

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Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny, " pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, Lee Clark Mitchell portrays the growing apprehensionsOriginally published in 19...