Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose

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Selected Poems

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter l...

The Morgesons

By Elizabeth Stoddard

Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of t...

Shades Of The Planet: American Literature As World Literature

By Wai-Chee Dimock, LAWRENCE BUELL

In A Globalizing Age, Studying American Literature In Isolation From The Rest Of The World Seems Less And Less Justified. But Is The Conceptual Box Of The Nation Dispensable? What Would American Li...

Transatlantic literary studies

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TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY STUDIES: A READER ED. BY SUSAN MANNING.

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The American Transcendentalists

By EDITED, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, LAWRENCE BUELL, Ralph Waldo Emerson, With An Introduction By Lawrence Buell

Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-ninet...

American Culture Canons and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard

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American culture, canons, and the case of Elizabeth Stoddard

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"A writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter...

Dream of the Great American Novel

By Lawrence Buell