A Companion to American Literature and Culture

This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.

• Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more
• Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter
• Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices
• Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature

A Companion to American Literature and Culture features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism

A Companion to American Literature and Culture is available in Paperback

A Companion to American Literature and Culture was written by Paul Lauter and published by Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley

A Companion to American Literature and Culture has 704 pages

Yes it is part of Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series

£35.96