A Sampling of Scholarship on the American Renaissance

• Colacurcio, Michael J. "The American Renaissance Renaissance." The New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 64.3 (Sept. 1991: 445-93.

• Grey, Robin. The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; 106. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

• Grossman, Jay. Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

• Michaels, Walter Benn, and Donald E. Pease. The American Renaissance Reconsidered. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

• Pease, Donald E. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

•  Railton, Stephen. Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991.

• "Reexamining the American Renaissance" ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance  49:1-3:

  • Castronovo, Russ. "Death to the American Renaissance: History, Heidegger, Poe." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 49.1-3 (2003): 179-92.

  • Harris, Sharon M.  "Whose Renaissance? Women Writers in the Era of the American Renaissance." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 49.1-3 [190-192] (2003): 59-80.

  • Nerad, Julie Cary. "A Darker Woods: African American Writers in the American Renaissance." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 49.1-3 (2003): 107-28.

  • Von Frank, Albert J.  "Re-Examining the American Renaissance: Some Futures for the Past." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 49.1-3  (2003).

• Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. 1st ed. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1988.

• Reynolds, Larry J. European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

• Tompkins, Jane P. "The Other American Renaissance." In Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.