Books by Elisa New

By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests the claim that American vision is implicitly possessive. She argues that American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature as an inscription of imperial national ideology would allow.

Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America.