Capturing the violence of repression and the disease of embattled survival, this book shows how the works of Hawthorne, Melville and Dickinson are in many ways the literary remnants of Puritanism.
Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to study the authors of what was previously called "The American Renaissance", reading them together in the light of their shared inheritance.
Hawthorne’s Histories, Hawthorne’s World collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of... Læs mere
This volume aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of “contextual historicism,” observing writers of the American nineteenth century, and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race, gender, and national identity.