Gathered together for the first time, the essays in this volume were selected to give scholars ready access to important late-twentieth and early twenty-first-c

Charles J. Rzepka's important contributions to scholarship on the Romantic period and twentieth-century literature and culture are gathered together for the fir

This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It examines the histo

Lee demonstrates how Melville, Emerson and others tried to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict.

In Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation, Michael Davitt Bell charts the important and often overlooked connection between literary culture and authors' careers