Edgar Allan Poe's 19th century poems and short stories still exert a wide influence on American pop culture and film, education and literature. Ironically, while he achieved some degree of …

Washington Irving, who lived and wrote in the burgeoning metropolis of New York City, began to document emerging American folklore in his stories. Despite his frequent travels to Europe to …

Atwood’s clippings file for The Handmaid’s Tale contains a great deal of material she researched about the American New Right in the early 1980s. It was at this time that religious right-wing …

Since the dawn of the country, works been contributed to the vast group of texts considered American literature. From the works detailing the first colonial encounter all the way to poems …

In the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Cherokee, and Zuni Origin Tales, what values of their respective tribes emerge in each tale? How? In the Trickster Cycle, what is the cause of/who …