A Sampling of Scholarship on the American Renaissance

  • Abrams, Robert E. Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Print.
  • Allen, Thomas M. “South of the American Renaissance.” American Literary History 16.2004 (2004): 496-508. Print.

  • Avallone, Charlene. “What American Renaissance? The Gendered Genealogy of a Critical Discourse.” PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 112.1997 (1997): 1102-20. Print.

  • Bergland, Renée. “The Native American Nineteenth Century: Rewriting the American Renaissance.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 52.2006 (2006): 141-54. Print.

  • 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.  Print.

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

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

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

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

  • "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. Print.

    • 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. Print.

    • 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. Print.

    • 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)Print.

  • 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. Print.

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

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