This 1991 book examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the Am...

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

This book explores the testimonies of spiritual experience delivered by puritans in the mid-seven...

Penelope's Web, published in 1991, was the first book to examine fully the brilliantly innovative...

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

A study of Afrocentrism since the eighteenth-century, with particular attention to popular mythol...

A 1999 study of the influence of South American culture on early American culture, in particular ...

Haralson traces the engagement with sexual politics in fiction by Henry James and modernist write...

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...