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American University Studies

Series 24: American Literature

The books within this series include a broad range of topics within the category of American literature. Typically, they are excellent monographs that have been subjected to a rigorous peer-review process. They tend to be written on topics that would not be suitable for our more specific series within each discipline. Many of the titles have won national and international awards. These books can be found in university library collections around the world.

Titles

  • Title: Maternal Conditions

    Maternal Conditions

    Reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki
    Volume 78
    by Melissa Schoeffel (Author)
    ©2008 Monographs 174 Pages
  • Title: The Making of Americans in Paris

    The Making of Americans in Paris

    The Autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein
    Volume 77
    by Noel Sloboda (Author)
    ©2008 Monographs 196 Pages
  • Title: The Patchwork Quilt

    The Patchwork Quilt

    Ideas of Community in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Fiction
    Volume 74
    by Suzanne V. Shepard (Author)
    ©2001 Monographs 172 Pages
  • Title: Gertrude Stein's «The Making of Americans»

    Gertrude Stein's «The Making of Americans»

    Repetition and the Emergence of Modernism
    Volume 61
    by George B. Moore (Author)
    ©1998 Others 268 Pages
  • Title: The Art of Dying

    The Art of Dying

    Suicide in the Works of Kate Chopin and Sylvia Plath
    Volume 56
    by Deborah S. Gentry (Author)
    ©2007 Monographs 102 Pages
  • Title: Spectacular Narratives

    Spectacular Narratives

    Representation of Class and War in Stephen Crane and the American 1890s
    Volume 37
    by Giorgio Mariani (Author)
    ©1992 Others 186 Pages
  • Title: Plight in Common

    Plight in Common

    Hawthorne and Percy
    Volume 34
    by Elzbieta Oleksy (Author)
    ©1993 Others 246 Pages
  • Title: The Novels of Toni Morrison

    The Novels of Toni Morrison

    The Search for Self and Place Within the Community
    Volume 31
    by Patrick Bryce Bjork (Author)
    ©1994 Others 174 Pages
  • Title: The International Theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Literature

    The International Theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Literature

    Volume 29
    by Elizabeth A. Weston (Author)
    ©1995 Others 146 Pages
  • Title: Prophets in Babylon

    Prophets in Babylon

    Five California Novelists in the 1930s
    Volume 28
    by Margaret C. Jones (Author)
    ©1992 Others 156 Pages