Songs of Ourselves is a unique history of literary texts as lived experience.

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans.

Over 600 A-Z articles on a wide-range of topics in American cultural and intellectual History Explores American cultural and intellectual history from the colonial period to the present-day Annotated bibliographies to highlight the major ...

These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Over 600 A-Z articles on a wide-range of topics in American cultural and intellectual History Explores American cultural and intellectual history from the colonial period to the present-day Annotated bibliographies to highlight the major ...

Over 600 A-Z articles on a wide-range of topics in American cultural and intellectual History Explores American cultural and intellectual history from the colonial period to the present-day Annotated bibliographies to highlight the major ...

What unites these essays is the author's ongoing concern with cultural boundaries, mediation, and ideology--and the contradictions they frequently entail.