A collection of critical essays on the poetry of Robert Frost, arranged in chronological order of original publication. "With shrewd humor and acute observation, Robert Frost captures the characteristic flavor of New England life. In his tramps in mud-time, hired hands, and meditative farmers, he has created some of our most striking figures of the late phase of New England culture, and he gives us a sense of the moral qualities embodied in a semi-mythical...

A critical examination of Blackness and race in the predominantly White genre. Noting that science fiction is characterized by an investment in the proliferation of racial difference, Isiah Lavender III argues that racial alterity is fundamental to the genre's narrative strategy. Race in American Science Fiction offers a systematic classification of ways that race appears and how it is silenced in science fiction, while developing a critical vocabulary...