Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.

This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.

Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.

This book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis.

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American moder