R. W. B. Lewis - Works Written

Works Written

  • The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (1955)
  • The Picaresque Saint. Representative Figures in Contemporary Fiction (1959)
  • Herman Melville (1962)
  • Trials of the Word: Essays in American Literature and the Humanistic Tradition (1965)
  • The Poetry of Hart Crane: A Critical Study (1967)
  • American Literature: The Makers and the Making: Book C / 1861 to 1914 (1974, with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren)
  • Edith Wharton (1975)
  • The Jameses: A Family Narrative (1991)
  • Literary Reflections : A Shoring of Images 1960-1993 (1993)
  • The City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings (1995)
  • American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits (1999, with Nancy Lewis)
  • Dante (2001)

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