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Books on American literature from 1830-1990 are highlighted. These books include S. Person's, 'Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity', Kenneth S. Sacks, 'Understanding Emerson: 'The American Scholar' and his Struggle for Self-Reliance' and Susan M. Ryan's, 'The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence'.

The authors summarize and comment on various aspects of American literature before 1900. Topics include general works, literature to 1830, and literature from 1830 to 1900.

The article synopsizes publications on the study and critique of American literature through the 19th century. Topics are separated chronologically, and cover American literature to 1830, from 1830 to 1865, and from 1865 to 1900. Authors of works studies include Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson.

WILLIAM V. SPANOS. Pp. xiv+374. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995. Cloth, 854.95; paper, $17.95. I must confess to struggling with the opening page of the acknowledgements to Professor Spanos's [...]

The task of writing a one-volume history of American literature grows increasingly difficult year by year, in part because of the vast quantity of recent literature that is thought worthy [...]

Books published in 2005 on American literature up to 1900 are presented. They include David Read's 'New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing', Jonathan Arc's 'The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860' and Sarah Meer's 'Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s'.

Books that cover the topics related to American literature are reviewed. The transnational character of colonial publishing and issues related to print capitalism, culture of printing, readership and the role of the book as an instrument of literate conversations is included.

This article summarizes scholarship published on American literature up to 1900. Topics include general studies, literature up to 1830, and literature from 1830 to 1900.

The Tayloring Shop: Essays on the Poetry of Edward Taylor in Honor of Thomas M. and Virginia L. Davis. Ed. by MICHAEL SCHULDINER. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: [...]

Women in European Theatre. Ed. by ELIZABETH WOODROUGH. Oxford: Intellect Books. 1995. 94 pp. 9.95 £. This volume consists of eight conference papers delivered at the University of London Institute [...]

THIS is the third volume of Michael Reynolds's immensely detailed biography of Hemingway. The first two, The Young Hemingway (1986) and Hemingway: The Paris Years (1989), took Hemingway, respectively, from [...]

Hook, A., Pp. ix + 97 (Modern Fiction Series). London, New York, Melbourne, Auckland: Edward Arnold, 1992. Paperbound 6.99 £. ANDREW HOOK's short book (a mere ninety-seven pages) on Scott [...]

By Hershel Parker. Pp. vi + 190. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $12.95. A definitive text for Melville's last great short story was established with the edition [...]

I MUST confess to being somewhat perplexed by the title of Jeanne Campbell Reesman's book; I should say its subtitle which refers to the |Late Novels of James and Faulkner' [...]

Kuehl, J., F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study of the Short Fiction. Pp. xiii + 200 (Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction). Boston: Twayne, 1991. 13.50 £. JOHN KUEHL has done much [...]

Teaching the Literatures of Early America. Ed. by CARLA MULFORD. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 1999. xii + 402 pp. $40 (pbk $22). This, the fifteenth volume in [...]

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, ed. WILLIAM E. CAIN. Pp. xvi + 512 (Bedford Cultural Editions). Boston: Bedford Books of St Martin's Press, 1996. Paperbound £7.50 (ISBN 0-312-11803-1). This edition of The Blithedale [...]