Skip to main content
Perlego
Browse
Institutions
Pricing
Login
DeutschEnglishEspañolFrançaisItaliano
DeutschEnglishEspañolFrançaisItaliano

Browse by topic

  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biological Sciences
  • Business
  • Computer Science
  • Design
  • Economics
  • Education
  • History
  • Languages & Linguistics
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Mathematics
  • Media & Performing Arts
  • Medicine
  • Personal Development
  • Philosophy
  • Physical Sciences
  • Politics & International Relations
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Study Aids
  • Technology & Engineering
  • Theology & Religion

Or browse by

  • Subtopics
  • Publishers
  • Index

Browse study resources

  • Knowledge Base
  • Study Guides
  • Essay Writing Guides
  1. Home
  2. Browse
  3. Literature
  4. North American Literary Criticism
Literature

North American Literary Criticism

  • Explore
  • Books
  • Related topics

Find by topic

1 of 14
  1. African American Fiction
  2. African Drama
  3. African Literary Collections
  4. African Literary Criticism
  5. African Literature
  6. African Poetry
  7. American Drama
  8. American Literature
  9. American Poetry
  10. Ancient & Classical Drama
  11. Ancient & Classical Literary Collections
  12. Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
  13. Ancient Poetry
  14. Argentinian Literature
  15. Asian Literary Collections
  16. Asian Literary Criticism
  17. Asian Literature
  18. Asian Poetry
  19. Australian & Oceanian Literature
  20. Brazilian Literature
  21. British Drama
  22. Canadian Drama
  23. Canadian Literature
  24. Canadian Poetry
  25. Caribbean Literature
  26. Central American Literature
  27. Chinese Literature
  28. Classics
  29. Colombian Literature
  30. Comics & Graphic Novels Literary Criticism
  31. Crime & Mystery Literature
  32. Drama
  33. English Literary Criticism
  34. English Literature
  35. European Drama
  36. European Literary Collections
  37. European Literary Criticism
  38. European Literature
  39. European Poetry
  40. Feminist Literary Criticism
View all

Trending on Perlego

1 of 17
  1. A Companion to American Literature
    A Companion to American Literature
    Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, Michael Soto
    2020
  2. A Companion to American Gothic
    A Companion to American Gothic
    Charles L. Crow
    2013
  3. Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
    Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
    David M. Bethea
    2014
  4. A Companion to American Poetry
    Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, Paul Jaussen
    2022
  5. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature
    Guiyou Huang
    2008
  6. The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930
    Kate Flint
    2020
  7. The Novel Art
    Mark McGurl
    2020
  8. Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater
    Wenying Xu
    2022
  9. The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics
    Brook Thomas
    2021
  10. Black Writers Interpret the Harlem Renaissance
    Cary D. Wintz
    2020
  11. Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures
    Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl
    2020
  12. History of English Literature, Volume 6 - eBook
    Franco Marucci
    2019
  13. A Companion to Modernist Poetry
    David E. Chinitz, Gail McDonald
    2014
  14. Transnational American Memories
    Udo Hebel
    2009
  15. A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama
    David Krasner
    2008
  16. A Companion to Walt Whitman
    Donald D. Kummings
    2008
  17. A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States
    Gary Totten
    2023
  18. Hemingway
    Carlos Baker
    2021
  19. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context
    Linda De Roche
    2021
  20. American Literature in Context
    Various Authors
    2021
  21. Homesickness
    Ryan Hediger
    2019
  22. L.A. Private Eyes
    Dahlia Schweitzer
    2019
  23. Post-Borderlandia
    T. Jackie Cuevas
    2018
  24. Challenges of Diversity
    Werner Sollors
    2017
  25. Who Writes for Black Children?
    2017
  26. Achievement of William Dean Howells
    Kermit Vanderbilt
    2015
  27. Writing America
    Shelley Fisher Fishkin
    2015
  28. Handbook of Intermediality
    Gabriele Rippl
    2015
  29. McClure's Magazine and the Muckrakers
    Harold S. Wilson
    2015
  30. Frontier in American Literature
    Edwin S. Fussell
    2015
  31. English Criticism in Japan
    Earl Miner
    2015
  32. Robert Frost and New England
    John C. Kemp
    2015
  33. Robert Lowell
    Steven Gould Axelrod
    2015
  34. Early American Literature
    Alfred Owen Aldridge
    2014
  35. The Genesis of Ezra Pound's CANTOS
    Ronald L. Bush
    2014
  36. The Illustrated A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
    Henry David Thoreau
    2014
  37. The Power of Historical Knowledge
    Susan L. Mizruchi
    2014
  38. Wallace Stevens and the Actual World
    Alan Filreis
    2014
  39. Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
    2013
  40. Books and Beyond
    Kenneth Womack
    2008
  41. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature
    Nicolás Kanellos
    2008
  42. A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America
    Susan Castillo, Ivy Schweitzer
    2008
  43. A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America
    Charles L. Crow
    2008
  44. Sentimental Bodies
    Bruce Burgett
    1998
  45. Reading Asian American Literature
    Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
    1993
  46. The Yale Critics
    1983
  47. Hemingway
    Jackson J. Benson
    1970
  48. On Second Thought
    James Gray
    1946
  49. Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch und Hilfswörterbuch für den Amerikanisten
    Georg Friederici

Most popular on Perlego

1 of 20
  1. Critical Theory Today
    Critical Theory Today
    Lois Tyson
    2023
  2. The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
    The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
    Michael Martone
    2012
  3. Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
    Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
    2007
  4. The American Dream
    Cal Jillson
    2016
  5. American Protest Literature
    Zoe Trodd
    2008
  6. Extraordinary Bodies
    Rosemarie Garland Thomson
    2017
  7. Transparent Minds
    Dorrit Claire Cohn
    2020
  8. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters
    Emily Dickinson
    2023
  9. Writing Wars
    David F. Eisler
    2022
  10. A Gravity's Rainbow Companion
    Steven Weisenburger
    2011
  11. Reading Joan Didion
    Lynn M. Houston, William V. Lombardi
    2009
  12. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
    2022
  13. The Textual Condition
    Jerome J. McGann
    2020
  14. A Companion to American Literature
    Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, Michael Soto
    2020
  15. Comic Books Incorporated
    Shawna Kidman
    2019
  16. Not a Catholic Nation
    Mark Paul Richard
    2017
  17. Poetry After the Invention of América
    A. Ajens
    2011
  18. Imagining the African American West
    Blake Allmendinger
    2005
  19. Poe Abroad
    Lois Davis Vines
    2002
  20. The Environmental Imagination
    Lawrence Buell
    1996
  21. The Typewriter Is Holy
    Bill Morgan
    2010
  22. Infidel Poetics
    Daniel Tiffany
    2009
  23. The Origin of Others
    Toni Morrison
    2017
  24. The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
    Gene Andrew Jarrett
    2014
  25. Keywords for Media Studies
    2017
  26. A Companion to American Gothic
    Charles L. Crow
    2013
  27. American Literature in Context to 1865
    Susan Castillo
    2010
  28. A New Literary History of America
    Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors
    2010
  29. The American Dream and Dreams Deferred
    Carlton D. Floyd, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
    2022
  30. Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico
    Thomas F. Walsh
    2014
  31. The Comic Book Western
    2022
  32. New Essays on Phillis Wheatley
    2011
  33. Partial Faiths
    John McClure
    2010
  34. Making Murder
    Philip L. Simpson
    2009
  35. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
    Stephen J. Burn
    2012
  36. Will Alexander’s Poetics
    2025
  37. The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy
    Vereen M. Bell
    2023
  38. Black to Nature
    Stefanie K. Dunning
    2021
  39. Understanding Colson Whitehead
    Derek C. Maus
    2021
  40. An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
    Dionne Brand
    2020
  41. Translingual Poetics
    Sarah Dowling
    2018
  42. Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction
    Kristin Ramsdell
    2018
  43. Empire of Conspiracy
    Timothy Melley
    2016
  44. Maximalism in Contemporary American Literature
    Nick Levey
    2016
  45. The Ink of Melancholy
    André Bleikasten
    2016
  46. The Art of Fiction
    James Salter
    2016
  47. Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile
    David M. Bethea
    2014
  48. Fate, Time, and Language
    David Foster Wallace
    2010
  49. Reading Chuck Palahniuk
    2009
  50. The Practice of Diaspora
    Brent Hayes Edwards, Brent Hayes EDWARDS
    2009
  51. Taking Haiti
    Mary A. Renda
    2004
  52. John Grisham
    Mary Beth Pringle
    1997
  53. Immigrant Acts
    Lisa Lowe
    1996
  54. Poe's Pym
    Richard Kopley
    1992
  55. Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'
    Justine Tally
    2008
  56. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    Jean Armstrong
    1987
  57. Ugly Feelings
    Sianne Ngai, Sianne NGAI
    2007
  58. Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
    M. Genevieve West
    2025
  59. The Essential Robert Duncan Milne
    Robert Duncan Milne
    2025
  60. The Child Gaze
    Amanda M. Greenwell
    2024
View all

Recently published

1 of 20
  1. Will Alexander’s Poetics
    Will Alexander’s Poetics
    2025
  2. Inhabitants of the Deep
    Inhabitants of the Deep
    Jonathan Howard
    2025
  3. Foremother Love
    Foremother Love
    Dana Murphy
    2025
  4. Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing
    Karin Kukkonen
    2025
  5. How Cormac Works
    Bill Hardwig
    2025
  6. The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    2025
  7. The Poetry of Bob Dylan
    2025
  8. American ModernismConsidered
    2025
  9. The Writings of Jesmyn Ward
    Martyn Bone
    2025
  10. Disability in Contemporary American Poetry
    Declan Gould
    2026
  11. Breaking the World
    Justin L. Mann
    2026
  12. Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature
    Penny Cartwright
    2026
  13. Edith Wharton and German Culture
    Maria Novella Mercuri
    2026
  14. Genre Bending
    Jeremy Rosen
    2025
  15. The Ghosts of Mark Twain
    ANN M. RYAN
    2025
  16. Writing Through Writer's Block
    Aaron Colton
    2025
  17. The Post-9/11 Great American Novel
    Sheheryar Sheikh
    2025
  18. The Post-Bildungsroman
    2025
  19. Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature
    Guozhong Duan, Ming Dong Gu
    2025
  20. Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    Jonathan P. Lewis
    2025
  21. Nabokov and the Art of Painting
    Gerard Vries, Donald Barton Johnson, Gerard de Vries
    2025
  22. Venus in the Dark
    Janell Hobson
    2025
  23. The New Negro
    Martha H. Patterson, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    2025
  24. Song of the Land
    2025
  25. The Witness as Educator
    David T. Hansen
    2025
  26. Engendering Blackness
    Patrice D. Douglass
    2025
  27. Digital Literary Redlining
    Amy E. Earhart
    2025
  28. Writing Black Panther
    Howard Rambsy II
    2026
  29. The Latin Poems of Christian Wedsted
    Aaron Palmore
    2026
  30. Get It While It's Hot
    2026
  31. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
    Francis Otto Matthiessen
    2026
  32. Power Plays in Transnational American Fiction
    2026
  33. Audiofuturism
    andré carrington
    2026
  34. Evelyn Scott
    Dorothy M. Scura
    2026
  35. Everyday Ideas
    Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray
    2026
  36. The Bad Poor
    Mitch Ploskonka
    2026
  37. Print Technologies and the Emergence of American Literary Cultures
    Oliver Scheiding
    2026
  38. Troubled Lands
    2026
  39. Comic Belles Lettres
    James E. Caron
    2026
  40. The Poetics of Agency
    Tymek Woodham
    2026
  41. Appalachian Gateway
    2026
  42. The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature
    Alexander Menrisky
    2026
  43. Popular Music and American Literary Culture
    Kirk Curnutt
    2026
  44. The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture
    2026
  45. Wildness
    Lydia Willsky-Ciollo
    2026
  46. Reading Length in Fantasy Fiction
    Matthew Oliver
    2026
  47. Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown
    2026
  48. One Time, One Place
    Eudora Welty
    2026
  49. Racial Beings
    Michelle N. Huang
    2026
  50. On the Road
    Sara Antonelli, Iuri Moscardi, Luca Abbattista
    2026
  51. Disability and Rurality in American Literature
    Matthew J. C. Cella
    2026
  52. Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays
    Arnab Ray
    2026
  53. Japanese Forms in American Poetry
    2026
  54. Our Fire Survives the Storm
    Daniel Heath Justice
    2026
  55. Reckoning with the Past
    Kristine Yohe
    2026
  56. Arthur Miller’s New York
    Stephen Marino
    2026
  57. Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR
    Sarah D. Phillips
    2026
  58. Illness, Literature, and Care
    Robert Leigh Davis
    2026
  59. Re-Envisioning the Freudian Mother in Southern Literature
    Jill Goad
    2026
  60. Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920
    Kari Holloway Miller
    2026
View all

Recently added

1 of 20
  1. Disability in Contemporary American Poetry
    Disability in Contemporary American Poetry
    Declan Gould
    2026
  2. Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki
    Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki
    Simon Pokagon
    2011
  3. On Our Own Ground
    On Our Own Ground
    William Apess
    2020
  4. Making War and Minting Christians
    R. Todd Romero, R. Romero
    2012
  5. Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature
    Penny Cartwright
    2026
  6. Breaking the World
    Justin L. Mann
    2026
  7. Will Alexander’s Poetics
    2025
  8. Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing
    Karin Kukkonen
    2025
  9. Genre Bending
    Jeremy Rosen
    2025
  10. Writing Through Writer's Block
    Aaron Colton
    2025
  11. The Ghosts of Mark Twain
    ANN M. RYAN
    2025
  12. We Are the Stars
    Sarah Hernandez
    2023
  13. The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    2025
  14. Chicano Sketches
    Mario Suárez
    2016
  15. Speaking for the Generations
    2022
  16. How Cormac Works
    Bill Hardwig
    2025
  17. The Post-9/11 Great American Novel
    Sheheryar Sheikh
    2025
  18. The Post-Bildungsroman
    2025
  19. Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature
    Guozhong Duan, Ming Dong Gu
    2025
  20. Rebecca
    Daphne du Maurier
    2025
  21. Inhabitants of the Deep
    Jonathan Howard
    2025
  22. Nabokov and the Art of Painting
    Gerard Vries, Donald Barton Johnson, Gerard de Vries
    2025
  23. Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
    Jonathan P. Lewis
    2025
  24. The Poetry of Bob Dylan
    2025
  25. Venus in the Dark
    Janell Hobson
    2025
  26. Inside The Great Gatsby
    A.E. Elmore
    2025
  27. The New Negro
    Martha H. Patterson, Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    2025
  28. The Writings of Jesmyn Ward
    Martyn Bone
    2025
  29. Hero Me Not
    Chesya Burke
    2023
  30. American ModernismConsidered
    2025
  31. Song of the Land
    2025
  32. The Witness as Educator
    David T. Hansen
    2025
  33. Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    Gavin Selerie
    1992
  34. Water and African American Memory
    Anissa J. Wardi
    2025
  35. Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
    M. Genevieve West
    2025
  36. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
    2010
  37. An Investigation of the Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Puritan Vernacular Tradition
    Douglas T. Root
    2020
  38. The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver
    Ayala Amir
    2010
  39. Foremother Love
    Dana Murphy
    2025
  40. A Short History of the Blockade
    Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
    2021
  41. American Trickster
    Emily Zobel Marshall
    2019
  42. The American Dream and Dreams Deferred
    Carlton D. Floyd, Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
    2022
  43. Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities
    2019
  44. Translated Poe
    2014
  45. Edgar Allan Poe
    Arthur Hobson Quinn
    1997
  46. Unclaimed Experience
    Cathy Caruth
    2016
  47. Generous Thinking
    Kathleen Fitzpatrick
    2019
  48. Experimental
    Natalia Cecire
    2019
  49. Zoopoetics
    Aaron M. Moe
    2013
  50. The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film
    2013
  51. Hunter S. Thompson
    Kevin T. McEneaney
    2016
  52. Rites of Passage, Liminality, and Community in Octavia E. Butler’s Science Fiction Novels
    Lin Knutson
    2023
  53. Anthologizing Poe
    2020
  54. Africana Critical Theory
    Reiland Rabaka
    2009
  55. African Spirituality in Black Women’s Fiction
    Elizabeth J. West
    2011
  56. Engendering Blackness
    Patrice D. Douglass
    2025
  57. Digital Literary Redlining
    Amy E. Earhart
    2025
  58. Cultural Studies in the Interregnum
    2025
  59. Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction
    James Peacock
    2025
  60. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems and Letters
    Emily Dickinson
    2023
View all

PERLEGO

PricingFAQsContact UsPerlego for InstructorsPerlego for InstitutionsPerlego for PublishersCareersPress

BROWSE

TopicsPublishersIndexKnowledge BaseStudy GuidesHarvard Referencing GuidesAPA Referencing GuidesEssay Writing GuidesResearch Assistant
ArchitectureArtBiological SciencesBusinessComputer ScienceDesignEconomicsEducationHistoryLanguages & LinguisticsLawLiteratureMathematicsMedia & Performing ArtsMedicinePersonal DevelopmentPhilosophyPhysical SciencesPolitics & International RelationsPsychologySocial SciencesStudy AidsTechnology & EngineeringTheology & Religion

Made with ☂︎ in London - © 2026 Perlego Ltd - Perlego HQ, 1 Waterhouse Sq, 138 Holborn, London, EC1N 2ST, United Kingdom - VAT 246681777

PrivacyTermsContent Policy
, (opens in new tab)
BooksSubtopicsPublishersIndexMissionCookiesSmart SearchAccessibility
, (opens in new tab)
Help Centre
, (opens in new tab)
Knowledge Base
, (opens in new tab)

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Instagram
Facebook
LinkedIn
Tiktok
X
DeutschEnglishEspañolFrançaisItaliano