American & Canadian Literature

This book examines the recent American cultural and literary preoccupation with Asia, exploring the corresponding historical-political situations – including China's Cultural Revolution and Japanese geisha culture – that have both circumscribed and enabled greater cultural and political contact betw..

This book examines the recent American cultural and literary preoccupation with Asia, exploring the corresponding historical-political situations – including China's Cultural Revolution and Japanese geisha culture – that have both circumscribed and enabled greater cultural and political contact betw..

This study examines the role interpersonal and place attachments play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Building on ecocritical and psychoanalytic studies, it integrates the language of empirical science and the physical realities of place, investigating non-human agency and th..

This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures...

This book examines the spatial morphologies represented in a wide range of contemporary ethnic American literary and cinematic works. Drawing from Henri Lefebvre’s theorization of space as a living organism, Edward Soja’s writings on the postmetropolis, Marc Augé’s notion of the non-place, Manuel Ca..

This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American s..

This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American s..

This study traces the emergence of a distinctive post-war American family dynamic between parent and adolescent or already adult child. In-depth readings of individual writers such as, Arthur Miller, William Styron, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O’Conno..

This study traces the emergence of a distinctive post-war American family dynamic between parent and adolescent or already adult child. In-depth readings of individual writers such as, Arthur Miller, William Styron, J. D. Salinger, Tennessee Williams, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O’Conno..

_x005F_x000D_ Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature is the first anthology to focus on literary criticism of working-class American literature. The literature examined is from the 1850s to the present and includes work in several genres. Several prominent scholars have contributed..

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...