TY - BOOK ID - 148523269 TI - The Routledge introduction to American renaissance literature PY - 2022 SN - 1138806544 1315751623 1317615719 9781315751627 9781317615705 1317615700 9781317615712 9781317615699 1317615697 9781138806542 9781138806559 PB - Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:148523269 AB - "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 contextualise the literature, and incorporates major relevant criticism into each chapter. Recommended readings for further study, along with a list of works cited, concludes each chapter"-- ER -