An outstanding collection of original critical essays by distinguished specialists, this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American lit

An outstanding collection of original critical essays by distinguished specialists, this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American lit

Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s

Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors

Here is the first major-figure anthology of American poetry of the colonial and early national periods, an indispensable volume for both students and scholars o