Authors and poets of the past have created a colorful collection of works that are still studied today alongside contemporary ... The text takes students on an academic journey of American Literature ...

An American ... also publishing new works from Boston. Given the critical mass of scholars, colleges and publishing houses, Boston staked a claim as the intellectual and literary center of the ...

An introduction to American literature, focusing on key novels, short stories and poems from the Romantic period through to the postmodern, and their relation to their historical and cultural contexts ...

In the 1920s, literary scholars began to identify Moby Dick as a work that commented upon larger issues of the American experience in the 19th century. Critics increasingly recognized Moby Dick ...