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Editors: Alfred Bendixen, Sacvan Bercovitch, Ronald Bush, Wai Chee Dimock, Albert Gelpi, Albert Gelpi, Gordon Hutner, Walter Benn Michaels, Ross Posnock, Kenneth Warren

Established in 1981 and with well over 100 titles now in print, Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture is internationally regarded as the leading forum for high-level American critical studies. Volumes in the series are written by outstanding scholars from the United States and Europe, and cover a wide range of key topics and approaches.

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[63] A Grand Army of Black Men

Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861–1865

[63] A Grand Army of Black Men

Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861–1865

[38] A House Undivided

Domesticity and Community in American Literature

[38] A House Undivided

Domesticity and Community in American Literature

[152] A Natural History of Pragmatism

The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein

[152] A Natural History of Pragmatism

The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein

[118] Afrotopia

The Roots of African American Popular History

[118] Afrotopia

The Roots of African American Popular History

[58] American Catholic Arts and Fictions

Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics

[58] American Catholic Arts and Fictions

Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics

[126] American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995

[126] American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995

[158] American Literature and the Free Market, 1945–2000

[50] American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition

[50] American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition

[22] American Realism and American Drama, 1880–1940

[22] American Realism and American Drama, 1880–1940

[141] Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

[141] Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

[105] Black Chant

Languages of African-American Postmodernism

[117] Blackness and Value

Seeing Double

[117] Blackness and Value

Seeing Double

[120] Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation

[81] Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre

[81] Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre

[109] Chicano Poetics

Heterotexts and Hybridities

[109] Chicano Poetics

Heterotexts and Hybridities

[33] Conspiracy and Romance

Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

[33] Conspiracy and Romance

Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

[134] Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860–1940

[134] Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860–1940

[146] Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865

[146] Correspondence and American Literature, 1770–1865

[8] Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin

The Price of Representative Personality

[103] Covenant and Republic

Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

[103] Covenant and Republic

Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

[84] Cross-Cultural Reckonings

A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts

[84] Cross-Cultural Reckonings

A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts

[21] Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature

Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville

[21] Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature

Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville

[137] Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks

[137] Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks

[43] Dark Eden

The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

[130] Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

[130] Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

[71] Discrepant Engagement

Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing

[71] Discrepant Engagement

Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing

[59] Disjunctive Poetics

From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe

[59] Disjunctive Poetics

From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe

[115] Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine

[115] Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine

[102] Early Native American Writing

New Critical Essays

[92] Edith Wharton

Matters of Mind and Spirit

[92] Edith Wharton

Matters of Mind and Spirit

[143] Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

[143] Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race

[119] Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated

[62] Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy

[62] Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy

[70] Emerson and the Conduct of Life

Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work

[70] Emerson and the Conduct of Life

Pragmatism and Ethical Purpose in the Later Work

[20] Emily Dickinson

The Poet on the Second Story

[9] Emily Dickinson and Her Culture

The Soul's Society

[47] Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism

[47] Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism

[147] Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[147] Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[56] Faulkner's Subject

A Cosmos No One Owns

[56] Faulkner's Subject

A Cosmos No One Owns

[40] Fictions of Capital

The American Novel from James to Mailer

[108] Fictions of Labor

William Faulkner and the South's Long Revolution

[72] Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture

[153] Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century

[149] From Modernism to Postmodernism

American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century

[149] From Modernism to Postmodernism

American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century

[144] Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle

[125] Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908–1934

[125] Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908–1934

[161] Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[111] H. D. and Hellenism

Classic Lines

[111] H. D. and Hellenism

Classic Lines

[104] H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siècle

Gender, Modernism, Decadence

[104] H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siècle

Gender, Modernism, Decadence

[93] Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

New Critical Essays

[14] Hart Crane

The Contexts of "The Bridge"

[3] Hawthorne Melville and the American Character

A Looking-Glass Business

[82] Healing the Republic

The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America

[82] Healing the Republic

The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America

[96] Hemingway

The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels

[133] Henry James and Queer Modernity

[133] Henry James and Queer Modernity

[32] Henry James and the 'Woman Business'

[129] Henry James and the Father Question

[129] Henry James and the Father Question

[99] Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation

[99] Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation

[110] Henry James' Last Romance

Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

[110] Henry James' Last Romance

Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene

[16] Ideology and Classic American Literature

[121] Imagined Empires

Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771–1876

[121] Imagined Empires

Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771–1876

[157] Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[53] In Respect to Egotism

Studies in American Romantic Writing

[53] In Respect to Egotism

Studies in American Romantic Writing

[140] Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature

Topographies of Skepticism

[140] Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature

Topographies of Skepticism

[28] Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America

The World Turned Upside Down

[131] Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression

[131] Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression

[54] Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic

[54] Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic

[116] Mark Twain and the Novel

The Double-Cross of Authority

[116] Mark Twain and the Novel

The Double-Cross of Authority

[132] Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

[132] Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West

[100] Melville's City

Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York

[100] Melville's City

Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York

[70] Modernism from Right to Left

Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, & Literary Radicalism

[65] Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism

[65] Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism

[88] Movements in Chicano Poetry

Against Myths, against Margins

[156] Multilingual America

Language and the Making of American Literature

[156] Multilingual America

Language and the Making of American Literature

[52] Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tradition and Revolution

[15] New England Literary Culture

From Revolution through Renaissance

[142] New England's Crises and Cultural Memory

Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860

[142] New England's Crises and Cultural Memory

Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620–1860

[42] Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels

Interpretative Strategies

[91] Novel Arguments

Reading Innovative American Fiction

[91] Novel Arguments

Reading Innovative American Fiction

[127] Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation

[127] Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation

[97] Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem

[97] Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem

[66] Out of the Sixties

Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation

[66] Out of the Sixties

Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation

[37] Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry

The Contemporaneity of Modernism

[37] Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry

The Contemporaneity of Modernism

[107] Partisans and Poets

The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War

[107] Partisans and Poets

The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War

[48] Penelope's Web

Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction

[48] Penelope's Web

Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction

[83] Pocahontas

The Evolution of an American Narrative

[124] Poe and the Printed Word

[124] Poe and the Printed Word

[44] Poet's Prose

The Crisis in American Verse
2nd Edition

[44] Poet's Prose

The Crisis in American Verse
2nd Edition

[74] Poetics of the Feminine

Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser

[74] Poetics of the Feminine

Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser

[94] Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry

O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill

[94] Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry

O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill

[155] Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms

[128] Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature

[128] Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature

[150] Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[150] Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[138] Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860–1930

[138] Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860–1930

[26] Re-making it New

Contemporary American Poetry and the Modernist Tradition

[98] Reading the West

New Essays on the Literature of the American West

[85] Reimagining Thoreau

[85] Reimagining Thoreau

[57] Religion and Sexuality in American Literature

[57] Religion and Sexuality in American Literature

[60] Representative Words

Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776–1865

[60] Representative Words

Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776–1865

[77] Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite

[77] Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite

[29] Robert Lowell

Essays on the Poetry

[159] Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature

[18] Saint and Singer

Edward Taylor's Typology and the Poetics of Meditation

[18] Saint and Singer

Edward Taylor's Typology and the Poetics of Meditation

[73] Salem Story

Reading the Witch Trials of 1692

[31] Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men

Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature

[2] Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry

[148] Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860

[45] Sporting with the Gods

The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature

[45] Sporting with the Gods

The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature

[160] Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

[112] Sublime Enjoyment

On the Perverse Motive in American Literature

[112] Sublime Enjoyment

On the Perverse Motive in American Literature

[51] T. S. Eliot

The Modernist in History

[51] T. S. Eliot

The Modernist in History

[86] T. S. Eliot and Ideology

[135] The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

[135] The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

[27] The American Abraham

James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch

[27] The American Abraham

James Fenimore Cooper and the Frontier Patriarch

[36] The American Epic

Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860

[36] The American Epic

Transforming a Genre, 1770–1860

[23] The American Historical Romance

[23] The American Historical Romance

[123] The American Puritan Elegy

A Literary and Cultural Study

[123] The American Puritan Elegy

A Literary and Cultural Study

[34] The American T. S. Eliot

A Study of the Early Writings

[34] The American T. S. Eliot

A Study of the Early Writings

[61] The Catholic Side of Henry James

[61] The Catholic Side of Henry James

[1] The Cliffs of Solitude

A Reading of Robinson Jeffers

[30] The Color of the Sky

A Study of Stephen Crane

[30] The Color of the Sky

A Study of Stephen Crane

[106] The Complicity of Imagination

The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture

[106] The Complicity of Imagination

The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture

[101] The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain

[136] The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures

Empire, Travel, Modernity

[136] The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures

Empire, Travel, Modernity

[68] The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story

[68] The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story

[7] The Divided Mind

Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917

[90] The Ethnography of Manners

Hawthorne, James and Wharton

[11] The Fall into Eden

Landscape and Imagination in California

[11] The Fall into Eden

Landscape and Imagination in California

[87] The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance

Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s

[87] The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance

Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s

[67] The Grounding of American Poetry

Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

[67] The Grounding of American Poetry

Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition

[17] The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism

A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence

[17] The Interpretation of Material Shapes in Puritanism

A Study of Rhetoric, Prejudice, and Violence

[69] The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson

[69] The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson

[89] The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature

Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

[89] The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature

Allegory in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

[151] The Making of Racial Sentiment

Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance

[151] The Making of Racial Sentiment

Slavery and the Birth of The Frontier Romance

[154] The Origins of American Literature Studies

An Institutional History

[39] The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science

A Disciplinary History of American Writing

[39] The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science

A Disciplinary History of American Writing

[139] The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[139] The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

[25] The Poetry of Marianne Moore

A Study in Voice and Value

[4] The Puritan Conversion Narrative

The Beginnings of American Expression

[41] The Puritan-Provincial Vision

Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century

[41] The Puritan-Provincial Vision

Scottish and American Literature in the Nineteenth Century

[64] The Regenerate Lyric

Theology and Innovation in American Poetry

[64] The Regenerate Lyric

Theology and Innovation in American Poetry

[76] The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams

[76] The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams

[12] The Sacred Game

Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630–1860

[12] The Sacred Game

Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630–1860

[35] The San Francisco Renaissance

Poetics and Community at Mid-Century

[145] Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere

[145] Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere

[78] Voices of Persuasion

[78] Voices of Persuasion

[114] Voices of the Nation

Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

[114] Voices of the Nation

Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

[13] Wallace Stevens

The Poetics of Modernism

[46] Walt Whitman and the American Reader

[46] Walt Whitman and the American Reader

[80] Walt Whitman's Native Representations

[75] William Carlos Williams and Alterity

The Early Poetry

[75] William Carlos Williams and Alterity

The Early Poetry

[24] William Faulkner

The Art of Stylization in his Early Graphic and Literary Work

[95] Worlds of Hurt

Reading the Literatures of Trauma

[95] Worlds of Hurt

Reading the Literatures of Trauma

[122] Writing America Black

Race Rhetoric and the Public Sphere

[122] Writing America Black

Race Rhetoric and the Public Sphere