The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century
Counternarrative Possibilities reads Cormac McCarthy's Westerns against the backdrop of two formative tropes in American mythology: virgin land (from the 1950s)
With the publication in English in 1930 of Civilization and its Discontents and its thesis that instinct – and, ultimately: nature – had been and must be fo
This coming-to-America novel introduces men and women who were among the first to leave England and build new lives in the New World. We accompany them as they