American Literary Scholarship

American Literary Scholarship
Author: American Literary Scholarship
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1973
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9780822302933

Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.

American Literary Scholarship: an annual 1971

American Literary Scholarship: an annual 1971
Author: J. Albert Robbins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1973
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9780822302933

Features bibliographic essays arranged by writer and time period, from pre-1800 to the present, and acts as a "systematic evaluative guide to current published studies of American literature" (ALA Booklist). Each volume covers content from two years previous to the volume

American Literary Scholarship - 1977

American Literary Scholarship - 1977
Author: American Literary Scholarship
Publisher: American Literary Scholarship
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1979-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.

Finding Colonial Americas

Finding Colonial Americas
Author: Joseph A. Leo Lemay
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874137224

The stories now being told about the colonial American past represent an "America" newly found, as scholars continue to evaluate and revise the longer-standing stories that have, across the centuries, held particular cultural and critical sway. This collection is a celebration of the widening of scholarly inquire in early American studies, and a tribute to a leading early Americanist whose scholarly career continues to contribute to the opening up of crucial questions of canon.

Beyond the Classroom

Beyond the Classroom
Author: Merton M. Sealts
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780826210463

These lucid essays, though varied in subject, have the commonality of an emphasis on teaching. The first essay, entitled "Emerson as Teacher," demonstrates how Emerson "provoked and inspired and educated his students - and his students' students.".

American Literature and the Academy

American Literature and the Academy
Author: Kermit Vanderbilt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1989-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780812212914

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Resources for American Literary Study

Resources for American Literary Study
Author: Jackson R. Bryer
Publisher: AMS Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9780404646318

Founded in 1971, Resources for American Literary Study soon became a favored venue for archival scholarship and bibliographical analysis in American literature. Recent issues have featured unpublished letters from F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Bret Harte, Edith Wharton, Alice James, Willa Cather, and Nathanael West; analyses of manuscripts by Thoreau, Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill; checklists of letters by John Cheever; and, a Prospects section with expert recommendations for the future study of authors ranging from Poe to Malamud. Book reviews are also prominent feature in every volume. RALS became a clothbound annual with volume 27 and is published by AMS Press. Everything else that has made the journal a force in literary study for the past thirty years is in place.