Description: "This book draws connections between Vermont author Howard Frank Mosher and works of classic American literature. From Chapter I exploring the horrors of the Civil War as conveyed in Mosher's Walking to Gatlinburg and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, to Chapter VIII offering romantic love as a shield against other human beings"--
Brief description: James Robert Saunders is a professor of English at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.