This is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, and co-author of The Elements of Style. G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and 'the writing life', offering fresh, detailed readings of the major [...]

By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature[...]