The early years of the twenty-first century saw several losses for the American theatre but also marked ... bringing fresh and diverse perspectives to contemporary American drama. With a focus on ...

This is the first of two volumes in which Christopher Bigsby offers extended critical readings of the work of the leading dramatists and theatre groups in twentieth-century America. In this century ...

I am currently working on a book project, provisionally titled “Money Talks: Finance and Form in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” This project examines a number of nineteenth- and ...

a 20th century novel is, what its authors’ methods and goals were, and how the unprecedented events of an ever more interconnected world shaped it. It’s a tall order, and Frank knows it ...

Not until the early 20th century was Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick first recognized as a literary masterpiece and touted as a cornerstone of modern American literature. Etching of Joseph O.

Frank explains what is happening in the books—thirty-one in all, by thirty writers—that he has selected to represent “the twentieth-century novel.” “Plot summary” is the dismissive ...