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 ...
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 ...
The course gives an overview of American literature in the nineteenth century with major emphasis on the American Renaissance, realism, naturalism, and the local color movement. The syllabus consists ...
Harold Bloom’s latest book is a rhapsody to twelve giants of classic American literature who have touched the sublime. He has, Bloom says, been a ‘Longinian critic since earliest youth’. Aged ...