The Routledge Introduction To American Renaissance Literature First Edition Larry J Reynolds by Larry J. Reynolds 9781315751627, 1315751623 instant download after payment.

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 which they must
be studied. Larry J. Reynolds usefully groups authors together for more lively and
fruitful discussion and engages with current as well as historical theoretical debates
on the area. The book includes essential biographical and historical information to
situate and contextualize the literature, and incorporates major relevant criticism
into each chapter. Recommended readings for further study, along with a list of
works cited, conclude each chapter.