Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media cult

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us about literature

During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close,

American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and ‘30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the Uni

This book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis.