American & Canadian Literature

This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Broncano visits McCarthy’s apocryphal narrative of the Southwest in search of the religious foundations that support the narrative architecture of the texts, from Blood ..

This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Broncano visits McCarthy’s apocryphal narrative of the Southwest in search of the religious foundations that support the narrative architecture of the texts, from Blood ..

In this study, Knadler examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of U.S. national..

In this study, Knadler examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of U.S. national..

This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature and culture, and examines how artistic representations of Anne Frank over the past fifty years reflect changing American responses to the Holocaust. In addition to analysing American responses to the Holocaust, the author examines te..

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Mark Twain as a Literary Comedian looks at how Mark Twain addressed social issues through humour...

In this anthology, David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century, a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper...

This book goes beyond traditional adaptation studies approaches to show how naturalism and early cinema intervened in the era’s experiments with temporality and time management. It shows how US naturalist novels are constructed around a formal and thematic interrogation of the relationship between h..

Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Prolific and controversial writer and journalist. The volume covers the period 1893-1926...

This title, originally published in 1985, examines conceptions of success and the good life expressed in bestselling novels – ranging from historical sagas and spy thrillers to more serious works by Updike, Bellows, Steinbeck and Mailer – published from 1945 to 1975. Using these popular books as cul..

This title, originally published in 1990, is a contribution to the social and literary history of ethnic groups in America. Its sources are the writings – chiefly novels – of five authors of Eastern and Southern European descent, chosen because they depict the acculturation of their people, the meet..