“Christian Anarchist shows how the many disparate elements from Hennacy’s family and cultural background–from Quakerism to the Baptist tradition to socialism,…
Dashiell Hammett
“Like one of Hammett’s novels, William Marling’s study of the author is brief, incisive, and packed with acute observations. Marling…
Raymond Chandler
“William Marling is the first critic to center his study of Raymond Chandler’s work on style, tracing the relation between…
William Carlos Williams and the Painters
“William Marling’s book takes a close look at one of the most deliberately modern of American poets and the deliberately…
The American Roman Noir
“At the center of Marling’ s approach is the concept of ‘prodigality’: how narrative represents having, and having had, too…
Ammon Hennacy
“Christian Anarchist shows how the many disparate elements from Hennacy’s family and cultural background–from Quakerism to the Baptist tradition to socialism,…
American, Hard-boiled and Noir: A Guide to the Fiction and Film
This book takes a new approach to the American-ness of hard-boiled fiction and reprises the award-winning website detnovel.com. There…
Gatekeepers: The Emergence of World Literature & the 1960s
“Along with its more traditional scholarly virtues, Gatekeepers is delightfully readable, not least for the sheer human interest that Marling…
How “American” is Globalization?
William Marling’s provocative work analyzes—in specific terms—the impacts of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Marling answers his own…
