Analyzes the symbolic projection of tragic awareness as a major trend in American fiction through a reintepretation of the recurrent themes and images found in the works of ...

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain ...

The first full-length study of early religious fiction from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book explores a long forgotten genre of writing. Ranging over the fiction of ...

In response to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call for the United States to have its own unique poet, Walt Whitman rose to the challenge to create what would ultimately be his most ...

As part of the Penguin Academics series, American Literature offers a wide range of selections with minimal editorial apparatus at an affordable price. Longman is proud to ...

Melville has long been regarded as an author of raw genius who knew, or cared, little about the art of the novel, and even harbored hostility toward its conventions. In The ...

A-Z entries detail the lives, works, and critical reception of more than 70 American writers of the 19th century.

Discusses nineteenth century attitudes toward masculine social roles, and examines how these influenced male and female writers

In his 1963 debut essay for the militant Quebec journal, Parti pris, Andre Brochu invoked the figure of the sixteenth-century skeptic Michel de Montaigne in the name of what ...