Beneath the American Renaissance : the subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and Melville

The aware-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print in an affordable paperback edition, the volume includes a new foreword by prominent historian Sean Wilentz.