Research Guide to American Literature

This set features seven indispensable handbooks that provide useful strategies for studying and writing literary topics. Each volume contains dozens of study guides on a particular period in American literature-including colonial literature, romanticism and transcendentalism, American modernism, postwar literature, and contemporary literature. Each guides examines a particular work, author, movement, or theme, providing an overview, suggesting fruitful areas of research and listing the best secondary sources.