Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is the author of European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance and The Making and Breaking of the Concord Circle. Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of American Literature, American Culture and Secrets and Sympathies: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthame's Novels and the editor of The American Literary History Reader.

"This volume constitutes an important, very teachable collection, and will come to serve as a central reference for both scholars and students in the fields of American Studies, American Art History, Film Studies, and African-American Studies."—Laura Rigal, author of The American Manufactory

Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is the author of European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance and The Making and Breaking of the Concord Circle. Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of American Literature, American Culture and Secrets and Sympathies: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthame's Novels and the editor of The American Literary History Reader.

"This volume constitutes an important, very teachable collection, and will come to serve as a central reference for both scholars and students in the fields of American Studies, American Art History, Film Studies, and African-American Studies."—Laura Rigal, author of The American Manufactory

Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is the author of European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance and The Making and Breaking of the Concord Circle. Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of American Literature, American Culture and Secrets and Sympathies: Forms of Disclosure in Hawthame's Novels and the editor of The American Literary History Reader.

"This volume constitutes an important, very teachable collection, and will come to serve as a central reference for both scholars and students in the fields of American Studies, American Art History, Film Studies, and African-American Studies."—Laura Rigal, author of The American Manufactory