The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.

Hobbes, Sovereignty and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States. It looks at Puri

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral vie

Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-century writers

Shows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.