American Literature, Lynching, and the Spectator in the Crowd: Spectacular Violence examines spectatorship in American literature at the turn of the twentieth c

Lynching in American Literature and Journalism consists of twelve essays investigating the history and development of writing about lynching as an American trag

Literary texts are artifacts of their time and ideologies. This book collection explores the working class in American literature from the colonial to the conte

Nineteenth-Century Americans saw danger lurking everywhere: in railway cars and trolleys, fireplaces and floods, and amid social and political movements, from t

The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological ent