About the book: This book brings together leading critics in American literature to address the representation of time throughout a wide range of genres, methodologies, and chronological periods.

Which older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered? By Adam Bradley Artwork by Dominic Chambers and Tajh Rust Adam Bradley, a T writer, is a ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr., who identified the book decades ago, works with N.H. dealer to add it to Harvard’s collections Henry Louis Gates Jr. was wandering through a rare bookshop in New York City four ...

When will the American novel grow up? “We are living not only in the age of america but also in the Age of the Novel, at a moment when the literature of a country without a first-rate verse epic ...

Inflamed, impertinent and deeply insightful, D.H. Lawrence’s “Studies in Classic American Literature” remains startlingly relevant 100 years after it was originally published. By A.O. Scott It has ...

In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists of ...

In the nineteen-thirties and forties, young book critics on the make used to crowd outside the office of Malcolm Cowley, the literary editor of The New Republic, in the hopes of his attention.

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

For contact information, please visit the Metropolitan College website. The Bachelor of Liberal Studies (BLS) in English & American Literature degree program is a focused liberal arts concentration ...