Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum

The Ever-Present Now examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specif

Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and r

The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the van

The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empir