Essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty r...

"e;Recommended"e; by ChoiceEnterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of n...

American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-tr...

Considers Gilman's place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships t...

Whether in the public realm as political activists, artists, teachers, biographers, editors, and ...

"e;Offers . . . a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political an...

This volume examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the nineteenth century f...

Offering a variety of critical approaches to late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic liter...

In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the cr...

The first large-scale, collaborative study of women’s voices and their vital role in the American...

An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and N...

Focusing on the concept of “dark ecology” and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspe...