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Routledge Introductions to American Literature


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Routledge Introductions to American Literature provide critical introductions to the most important topics in American Literature, outlining the key literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts. Providing students with an analysis of the most up-to-date trends and debates in the area, they also highlight exciting new directions within the field and open the way for further study. Volumes examine the ways in which both canonical and lesser known writers from diverse class and cultural backgrounds have shaped American literary traditions, addressing key contemporary and theoretical debates, and giving attention to a range of voices and experiences as a vital part of American life. These comprehensive volumes offer readable, cohesive narratives of the development of American Literature and provide ideal introductions for students.

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The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story

The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Scott Brewster, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
July 24, 2024

This book traces the historical development of the American ghost story from its Indigenous, Puritan and Enlightenment origins to its heyday in the nineteenth century and continued vibrancy in modern literary and visual culture. It explores the main tropes, thematic preoccupations, principal ...

The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel

The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By D. Quentin Miller
June 13, 2024

The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our understanding of the American novel and its evolving traditions. This volume aims to engage productive classroom discussion, including:    • What ...

The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing

The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing

1st Edition

By Amy Monticello, Jason Tucker
July 31, 2023

The stories of lived experience offer powerful representations of a nation’s complex and often fractured identity. Personal narratives have taken many forms in American literature. From the letters and journals of the famous and the lesser known to the memoirs of former slaves to hit true crime ...

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

The Routledge Introduction to American Drama

1st Edition

By Paul Thifault
June 29, 2022

This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature. Designed to support students in reading, discussing, and writing about commonly assigned American plays, this text offers timely resources to think critically and originally about key moments on...

The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature

The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature

1st Edition

By Larry J. Reynolds
September 24, 2021

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in ...

The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature

The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature

1st Edition

By Drew Lopenzina
July 23, 2020

This Introduction makes available for both student, instructor, and affcianado a refined set of tools for decolonizing our approaches prior to entering the unfamiliar landscape of Native American literatures. This book will introduce indigenous perspectives and traditions as articulated by ...

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism

1st Edition

By Linda Wagner-Martin
October 24, 2018

The Routledge Introduction to American Postmodernism offers readers a fresh, insightful overview to all genres of postmodern writing. Drawing on a variety of works from not only mainstream authors but also those that are arguably unconventional, renowned scholar Linda Wagner-Martin gives the ...

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

The Routledge Introduction to American War Literature

1st Edition

By Jennifer Haytock
June 05, 2018

War and violence have arguably been some of the strongest influences on literature, but the relation is complex: more than just a subject for story-telling, war tends to reshape literature and culture. Modern war literature necessarily engages with national ideologies, and this volume looks at the ...

The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers

The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers

1st Edition

By Wendy Martin, Sharone Williams
April 21, 2016

The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and provides readers with an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women’s ...

The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism

The Routledge Introduction to American Modernism

1st Edition

By Linda Wagner-Martin
March 02, 2016

The modernist period was crucial for American literature as it gave writers the chance to be truly innovative and create their own distinct identity. Starting slightly earlier than many guides to modernism this lucid and comprehensive guide introduces the reader to the essential history of the ...

The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature

The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature

1st Edition

By D. Quentin Miller
February 19, 2016

The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students with an analysis of the most up-to-date literary trends and debates in ...

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