Books in the Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture series

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the theme of apocalypse in America, from the colonial era to the present. Imagining the end of the world has always been a popular pastime, especially in America.

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field.

This book explores how American literature engages with the climate. By dissecting the cultural roots of American climate discourses, the book at once allows for a better understanding of the polarized reception of the findings of climate science and offers a fresh perspective on classic American texts.

This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present, and illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.