Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors

Mapping Region in Early American Writing is a collection of essays that study how early American writers thought about the spaces around them. The contributors

Early American Writings brings together a wide range of writings from the era of colonization of the Americas through the period of confederation in North Ameri

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to alm

The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are el