The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature

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The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature is written by Larry J. Reynolds and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317615700 (ISBN 10) and 9781317615705 (ISBN 13).

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied. Larry J. Reynolds usefully groups authors together for more lively and fruitful discussion and engages with current as well as historical theoretical debates on the area. The book includes essential biographical and historical information to situate and contextualize the literature, and incorporates major relevant criticism in each chapter. Recommended readings for further study, along with a list of works cited, conclude each chapter.