A History of American Literature

838 Further Reading

Levander, Caroline Field, Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-

Century American Literature and Culture (1998).

Levin, David, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman (1959).

Levin, Harry, The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville (1958).

Lewis, R. W. B., The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth

Century (1955).

Lively, Robert C., Fiction Fights the Civil War (1957).

Lynn, Kenneth, The Comic Tradition in America (1958).

Lyon, Thomas J. et al. (eds.), A Literary History of the American West (1974).

McKinsey, Elizabeth R., Niagara Falls: Icon of the American Sublime (1985).

McWilliams, John P., Jr., Hawthorne, Melville, and the American Character (1984).

McWilliams, John P., Jr., The American Epic: Transforming the Genre, 1770–1860 (1990).

Matthiessen, F. O., American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and

Whitman (1941).

Miller, David, Dark Eden: The Swamp in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (1989).

Miller, Perry, The Raven and the Whale: The War of Wits and Words in the Era of Poe and

Melville (1956).

Miller, Perry, Nature’s Nation (1967).

Morrison, Toni, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992).

Mott, Frank Luther, A History of American Magazines (5 vols.; 1938–1968), Volume 2:

1850–1865.

Papashvily, Helen White, All the Happy Endings: A Study of the Domestic Novel in America, the

Women Who Wrote It, the Women Who Read It, in the Nineteenth Century (1956).

Pearce, Roy Harvey, The Continuity of American Poetry (1961).

Pease, Donald E., Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Contexts (1987).

Pease, Donald E. (ed.), National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives (1994).

Pease, Donald E. (ed.), Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon (1994).

Peterson, Carla, Doers of the Word: African-American Speakers and Writers in the North,

1830–1880 (1998).

Poirier, Richard, A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature (1966).

Porte, Joel, The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James

(1969).

Porte, Joel, In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing (1991).

Pryse, Marjorie, The Mark of Knowledge: Social Stigma in Classical American Fiction (1979).

Radaway, Janice, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1991).

Reynolds, David, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of

Emerson and Melville (1988).

Reynolds, David, Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography (1995).

Ridgely, J. V., Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature (1980).

Riss, Arthur, Race, Slavery and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2006).

Romero, Lora, Home Fronts: Domesticity and its Critics in the Antebellum United States (1997).

Rose, Anne C., Transcendentalism as a Social Movement (1982).

Rose, Anne C., Victorian America and the Civil War (1992).

Rourke, Constance, American Humor: A Study of the National Character (1931).

Rowe, John Carlos, At Emerson’s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature (1997).

Ryan, Mary P., The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830–1860

(1982).

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