This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a ...

The introduction to this volume charts the fortunes of The Great Gatsby from its mixed reception and disappointing sales on publication in 1925, through its increasing popularity in the 1940s, to its ...

Journalist Terence Smith reflects on decades of reporting on American presidents ... characters in American literature. In the recent Broadway update of the classic American story, actor Jeff ...