In both poetry and prose, the editors have chosen selections intended to give readers a clear sen...

Penelope's Web should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers interested in twentieth-century modern...

Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed the tradition of writing co...

Afrocentrism and its history has long been disputed and controversial. In this important book, Wi...

Imagined Empires, first published in 1999, demonstrates that early American culture, and in parti...

In Henry James and Queer Modernity, first published in 2003, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching ...

Part biography and part literary history, this book is about the experience of the American moder...

Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the ...

This book considers the portrayal of the American national character in the writings of Nathaniel...

Richard Grusin's innovative study investigates how the establishment of national parks contribute...

In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, ...

Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a historical context. His book offers a fresh ...

Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry is an inquiry into the cultural roles lyric ...

This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels.

This ambitious and comprehensive book sets a standard by which to measure all future interpretati...

In Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism Thomas Strychacz argues that modernist writers nee...

Stephen Fredman asserts in his latest work that American poetry is groundless - that each generat...

Griffin analyses anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in b...

Out of the Sixties explores the tension between history and the self in the work of ten authors w...

Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities examines the crossing of literary and social forces ...

The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism overturns many of our long-held assumptions a...

Arguing for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United S...

For more than a decade, Americanists have been concerned with the problem of ideology, and have u...

In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic iden...

Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem is a critical and historical interpretation of 'Ori...

In this book Professor Gelpi traces the emergence of American Modernist poetry as a reaction to, ...

Philip Gould investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republ...

Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers w...

This is a 1993 collection of fourteen essays by America's leading historians and literary critics...

Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture offers a radically new reading of O'Connor, who is known p...

Paul Downes combines literary criticism and political history in order to explore responses to th...

The Divided Mind examines the debate between innovation and tradition in American culture of the ...

Duplessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates around so...

The Tenth Muse was enormously well-received when first published by Harvard University Press in 1...

Professor Ahearn argues that Williams criticism has not gone far enough in recognizing the uses W...

This is a historical critique of Henry James in relation to nineteenth-century feminism and women...

Reading the West is a collection of critical essays by writers, independent scholars, and critics...

This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from ...

Philip Gould investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republ...

Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the most in...

In this 2003 book, Ralph Bauer presents a comparative investigation of colonial prose narratives ...

Faulkner has, for forty years, been canonized as a master of modern literature. Contemporary crit...

The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-...

The first collection of critical essays that concentrates on this body of writing, this book high...

In this 1990 book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writi...

Robinson discusses each of Emerson's major later works noting their increasing orientation to a p...

Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit considers Wharton as a novelist of morals rather than m...

Wilson Moses traces the origins of Afrocentrism since the 18th century. Moses provides a rich his...