Book of Donmon Teith

Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers te

The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market f

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, ye

An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American l

Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In