The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have ...

African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural ...

We publish work in both American and British literature from modernism to the present day and demonstrate expertise in research areas at the forefront of current thinking across a wide spectrum, ...

Study post-1900 literature in all its geographical ... Units provide opportunities to study modernisms, postcolonial writing, cultural theory, radical subcultures, American culture, contemporary ...

20th-century American literature, and Welsh and Anglo-Welsh writing. In these and other areas we foster doctoral research both within the department and in collaboration with other departments at ...

Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became the literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the nation's stories of money, power, sex, religion and war ...

Mark Twain, Introductory Note to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ernest Hemingway declared that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." ...

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.

Brad Walrond and Cheryl Clarke's groundbreaking new poetry collections offer profound insights into Black American ...