American literature

American literature

A History of the African American Novel

Valerie Babb | University of Georgia This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

498pp Jul. 2022 9781107646780 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781107448773

African American Literature in Transition, 1750–1800

Volume 1 Rhondda Robinson Thomas | Clemson University, South Carolina This volume provides a meticulous analysis of the development of early African American literature from an African diasporic perspective. It includes explorations of both oral and written texts by people of African descent who created a distinct literary tradition shaped by transitional forces—from forced migrations to political revolutions.

African American Literature in Transition

400pp Apr. 2022 9781108495073 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108860864

African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930

Volume 9 Miriam Thaggert | University of Iowa This book looks beyond the familiar story of the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement. Discussing the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor alongside more concrete historical and literary analyses, the volume investigates concepts, events, and figures that have been obscured by the customary narratives of the era.

African American Literature in Transition

350pp Apr. 2022 9781108834162 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108992039

African American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940

Volume 10 Eve Dunbar | Vassar College, New York The volume is for scholars and researchers interested in African American and American literature and history. Chapters explore African American writing during the Great Depression to examine 1930s Black life, culture, and politics and, ultimately, to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed their economic vulnerability.

African American Literature in Transition

350pp Apr. 2022 9781108472555 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108560665

African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970

Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics Volume 13 Shelly Eversley This book embraces the very notion of African American literature and culture as both the subject and the agent of transition. It interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, not only as it confronts racism but also as it explores blackness as the source for art and politics.

African American Literature in Transition

350pp Oct. 2022 9781108422932 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108386043

American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

William Huntting Howell | Boston University This volume presents a complex portrait of a US grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Subjects include: power, memory, racial and economic inequality, Indigeneity, disability, gender and sexuality, literary genre, poetics, performance, and foodways.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition

350pp Jun. 2022 9781108475860 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108675239

American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860

Volume 2 Justine S. Murison | University of Illinois Tracing the historical contexts, global coordinates, and present reverberations of American literature in the decades preceding the Civil War, this volume offers exciting new avenues for research and teaching and makes antebellum literature relevant for a new generation of students and scholars.

American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century

350pp Jun. 2022 9781108475365 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108566872

American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877

Cody Marrs | University of Georgia This is a new account of the literary and cultural history of the Civil War era. It offers scholarly histories of the major authors, texts, forms, and movements that comprised American literature between 1851 and 1877. The approaches used in the volume reflect the most up-to-date and cutting-edge research methods of American literary studies.

American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century

350pp Jun. 2022 9781108474542 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108565615

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2 American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910

Volume 4 Lindsay V. Reckson | Haverford College, Pennsylvania Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period’s immense transformations. Approaching literature through the cultural changes of the post-Reconstruction era, contributors examine a range of literary forms with an eye towards aesthetic innovation and social upheaval.

American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century

381pp Aug. 2022 9781108477505 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108763714

American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

A Cultural History Will Kaufman | University of Central Lancashire, Preston This groundbreaking book explores the hidden history of American song and struggle, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War. Recovering the passionate voices of an entire nation, it shows that these songs are woven into the very fabric of the American people.

530pp Aug. 2022 9781316514337 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009086769

American literature

Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

Jolene Hubbs | University of Alabama This book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

280pp Jan. 2023 9781009250658 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009250627

Don DeLillo In Context

Jesse Kavadlo Don DeLillo In Context benefits scholars and students interested in intersections between his literature and its contexts. Essays examine how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding his body of work.

Literature in Context

375pp Jun. 2022 9781316515433 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009025676

Langston Hughes in Context

Vera M. Kutzinski | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee This volume is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the many facets of Langston Hughes’s career. Reading essays that track his career from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia and the African continent, readers will come away with a different sense of the twentieth century.

Literature in Context

400pp Dec. 2022 9781316512128 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009057783

Race in American Literature and Culture

John Ernest | University of Delaware A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies. It explores how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture.

466pp Jun. 2022 9781108487399 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108766654

The Cambridge Companion to American Horror

Stephen Shapiro | University of Warwick This book provides an essential guide to one of the most popular contemporary genres. Ranging across disciplines, underpinned by historical scholarship and alert to the latest thinking, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in America’s dark past and present.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

300pp Aug. 2022 9781009069892 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2022 9781316513002 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009071550

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body

Travis M. Foster | Villanova University, Pennsylvania This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

300pp Jun. 2022 9781108815291 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jun. 2022 9781108841924 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895170

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

Sarah Ensor | University of Wisconsin, Madison This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as Black feminism, food studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, and queer theory, it reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

300pp Mar. 2022 9781108815277 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2022 9781108841900 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108895118