This volume highlights the development of the American novel within the context of global networks of influence and will cover topics like Reconstruction and th

This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... --

The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical

Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywoo