In the recent Broadway update of the classic American story ... Prynne is one of the great feminist characters in all of literature, says librettist David Mason: full of dignity and courage ...

Presenting a literary history of American writing (from 1492 to 1820) and a concise social and cultural history, Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American ...

“America today,” Wolfe wrote, “in a headlong rush of her own, may or may not truly need a literature worthy of her vastness. But American novelists, without any doubt, truly need, in this ...

Last summer’s sudden cancellation by its lead sponsor, the Smithsonian Museum’s Asian Pacific American Center (APAC), ...

This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture. Together, an international team of authors make clear that ...