Book of Donmon Teith

In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville produced works of fiction that even today help define American literature. In this work of

Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.

This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspe