A manifesto for the humanities in the digital age, A New Republic of Letters argues that the history of texts, together with the methods by which they are preserved and made available for interpretat …

The poetry of Edgar Allan Poe has had a rough ride in America, as Emerson’s sneering quip about "The Jingle Man" testifies. That these poems have never lacked a popular audience has been a …

A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry.In this book, Jerome Mc Gann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poet …

A major poet, writer, and painter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was seen as the dominating cultural presence in the second half of the nineteenth century. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite movement, revised an …

Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period.Classic American literature, Jerome Mc …

Martin R. Delany’s Blake (1859, 1861-1862) is one of the most important African American-and indeed American-works of fiction of the nineteenth century. It tells the story of Henry Blake’s escape fro …