"... this volume presents a reasonable, fresh, and well-researched reading of several key texts in American studies." -- Journal of the American Studies Associa

Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, aut

What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have h

Born into an elite Boston family and a graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard Law School, white Massachusetts aristocrat Wendell Phillips’s path seemed

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