Author: Jane P. Tompkins

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0195041194

In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy. Sensational Designs challenges comfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."