Throughout the history of the United States, a commitment to both democratic political ideals and to capitalist realities has made privacy a persistently contro

This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly f

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories and poems are among the most haunting and indelible in American literature, but critics for decades persisted in seeing Poe as an an

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