The Cambridge Companion To The Literature Of The American Renaissance

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.

An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.

This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.

Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.

This 2007 Companion is a comprehensive guide to the key authors and works of the African American literary movement.

The first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature and the culture which shaped it.