This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial ...
This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, ...
This course provides a general introduction to American literature, where the main focus is on the nineteenth and the twentieth century. Primary attention will be given to how literary texts are ...
“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 ...
"Larry Ziff was a prodigious scholar of 18th- and 19th-century American literature," said Sharon Cameron, professor emerita in the Department of English. Cameron described him as "a beloved ...