A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day.
Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature
Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction
Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years
This Concise Companion launches students into the study of English Renaissance literature through the central contexts that informed it.
Places the poetry within contexts such as: economics; religion; empire and exploration; education, humanism and rhetoric; censorship and patronage; royal marriage and succession; treason and rebellion; "others" in England; private lives; cosmology and the body; and life-writing.
Incorporates recent developments in the field, as well as work soon to be published.
Entices students to explore the subject further.
Provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.
All the contributors are highly regarded scholars and teachers.
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