This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of

Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this 2001 Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces th

This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, ma

This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.

This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.