This literary romance draws on Jane Austen for its inspiration for its story of a lonely French bookseller and aspiring novelist who has to choose between her old friend and ...

Finer search terms than “young male sex novel”, of course, would have turned up much smarter matches. The canon itself largely comprises young male sex novels. Even our most revered critic James Wood ...

As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” Much ...

The connotations of the word “realism” in French literature are so varied that the magnitude of the subject is even greater than appears at first sight. In its later developments realistic ...

An interview with Mr. Ernest Dos, a literary critic, about English Romantic writers. It highlights the influence of historical revolutions—American, French, and Irish—on literature during the ...

Books & the Arts / February 26, 2025 Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was ...

African American literature’s exploration and explication of such complexity remains important as we grapple with questions of identity, belonging, and justice.

On the other hand, the Dark Romanticism subgenre, prevalent in German and American Romanticism, employed gloomy, tragic language to explore the relationship between the divine and humanity.

For many, however, James has become an important companion piece to Mark Twain’s work, the book “all American literature comes from,” to quote Ernest Hemingway. “I’ve been getting lots ...

In 1863, Beadle’s Dime American Speaker, an alternative low-priced textbook, published “Annabel Lee” in isolation from Poe as a person. The poem was described as a gem of “most impressive [production] ...

Throughout history and large social movements, American literature has become an outlet for documenting the past, storytelling and educating the people of today. In historical events like the Women’s ...