This book shows how the Civil War took imaginative shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.

Combining theoretical arguments with close reading, this text traces how twentieth-century writers have reinvented travel narrative for new purposes.

This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls.

This book examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place.

This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture.

This volume explores the way in which antebellum American writers perceived the political implications of modern philosophical skepticism.

This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.

Writing in Real Time is the first book-length study of the American long poem as a complex adaptive system.

The Poetics of Insecurity explores how American literary writers forged a cultural imaginary in which insecurity acts as an enlivening force.

This study examines how African American writers use visual tropes as literary devices to challenge readers' conceptions of black identity.