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In 1887 a twenty-one-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865–1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged fifty miles a day pedalling a fifty-two-inch, high-wheeled Columb... Read More about An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887

This Companion consists of 14 essays by leading international scholars. They provide a series of new perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. Specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, the essays examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stor... Read More about The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

An action-packed retelling of the life and work of the polymath and so-called First American, Benjamin Franklin.   All Benjamin Franklin biographers face a major challenge: they must compete with their subject. In one of the greatest autobiographies in world literature, Franklin has already tol... Read More about Benjamin Franklin (Critical Lives)

The story of the critical reception of Crane's great Civil War novel from its publication to the present, with particular attention to the effects of later wars on that reception. Stephen Crane's masterpiece The Red Badge of Courage was a sensation when it first appeared in 1895: many readers were ... Read More about At War with the Red Badge of Courage: A Critical and Cultural History (Literary Criticism in Perspective #77)

Details Lawrence's reception of Melville and reveals his underacknowledged role in the Melville Revival, while contributing to the history of the book and the study of the creative process. How Lawrence Read Melville is a highly focused account of D. H. Lawrence's discovery and reception of Herman ... Read More about How D. H. Lawrence Read Herman Melville (Studies in English and American Literature and Culture #28)

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of o... Read More about Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson