American literature

AMERICAN LITERATURE

African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990

Volume 15

D. Quentin Miller Rich Blint

Analyzes Black expressive culture in the 1980s as authors grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era.

African American Literature in Transition

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781009179348 Hardback c. £89.99 / c. US$115.00 R

American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

William Huntting Howell Greta LaFleur

Frames a generically and culturally diverse literary portrait of the early USA, unsettling narratives of incipient national unity.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108475860 Hardback £89.99 / US$115.00 R

William Faulkner and the Materials of Writing

Jonathan Berliner

This book examines materials of writing in William Faulkner’s novels and stories from parchment to typewriters, letters to telegrams.

September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009222327 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C

American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910

Volume 4

Edited by Lindsay V. Reckson

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period’s immense transformations.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.381pp 9781108477505 Hardback £89.99 / US$115.00 R

Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

Jolene Hubbs

Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 190

January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009250658 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C

The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945

Andrew Epstein

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the richness and diversity of American poetry from 1945 to the present.

Cambridge Introductions to Literature

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781108712125 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$29.99 P

African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970

Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics

Volume 13

Shelly Eversley

Interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, as it confronts racism.

African American Literature in Transition

August 2018 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108422932 Hardback £89.99 / US$115.00 R

Langston Hughes in Context

Vera M. Kutzinski Anthony Reed

This volume assembles exciting new scholarship canvassing the entire geographic and historical range of Langston Hughes’s storied career.

Literature in Context

December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781316512128 Hardback c. £90.00 / c. US$110.00 R