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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential writers of the nineteenth century. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that... (more)

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Galaxy Books)

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (Galaxy Books)

by F. O. Matthiessen

"<Matthiessen's> exploration of the haunted mind of Hawthorne, of Emerson's integrity, of the mental hell in which Melville lived, of Whitman's schizophrenia, of Thoreau's chosen solitude, <has> produced a book unequaled in American critical writing."--The New Republic

The Yemassee: A Romance Of Carolina

by William Gilmore Simms

The determination of the whole was soon made. Huspah, the superior but superannuated chief, tottering in advance, and singing mournfully the song of death with which the Indian always prepares for its approach, the song became general with the victims, and with drawn knives and ready hatchets, they threw wide the entrance, and rushing forth with a fury duly heightened by the utter hopelessness of escape, they... (more)

The Times of Melville and Whitman

by Van Wyck Brooks

Literature of the American Renaissance.Rex J. Burbank

Literature of the American Renaissance.

by Rex J. Burbank

Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States (New Americanists)

Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States (New Americanists)

by Lora Romero

Unlike studies of 19th-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romero's HOME FRONTS shows the many, sometimes contradictory, cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. HOME FRONTS revises the terms of debate on 19th-century literature, history, and gender studies .

Walden, or Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Walden, or Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau's masterwork, Walden, is a collection of his reflections on life and society. His simple but profound musings-as well as "Civil Disobedience," his protest against the government's interference with civil liberty-have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature.

Hawthorne, a Collection of Critical Essays

Hawthorne, a Collection of Critical Essays

by A.N. Kaul

The House of the Seven Gables

by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

The tale of a cursed house with a "mysterious and terrible past" and the generations linked to it. First published in 1851, The House of Seven Gables is Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries.

Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson

The only authoritative paperback collection of all of Emily Dickinson's poetry. The editor has assembled a reading text of the preferred forms of all 1,775 poems, and has included in his introduction an explanation of his selection of texts, plus a helpful outline of Emily Dickinson's career.

Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. Introduction by Andrew Delbanco Explanatory Commentary by Tom Quirk

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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman