This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

A fascinating reevaluation of U.S. literary realism during the Gilded Age.

The book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.

"Aligning Emerson and Thoreau with exploration narratives by Lewis and Clark, Pike, and others, West of Emerson realigns the standard map of regional American l

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and tec