It was this version of American Romanticism that captivated a subset of gay avant-garde poets in the 1960s. Jonathan Williams ...

This year, the students focused on American Romanticism, a movement that blossomed in the 19th century and defined writers from Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The period saw thinkers praise ...

The belief that the South is the only region of the United States with racist ties creates a false narrative of American history, according to Karen Cox. “It is not simply that Americans … have laid ...

Reviewing May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), from which I’ve drawn my examples, William Dean Howells gave one of the better backhanded compliments in American literary history: “Mr. Emerson ...