This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors d

Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literatur

For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this w

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and s

American literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American L