University Press Copublishing Division / University of Delaware Press
Pages: 367
Trim: 6¾ x 9¾
978-1-61149-318-4 • Hardback • July 2007 • $136.00 • (£105.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
Martin Brückner is associate professor of English and Material Culture studies at the University of Delaware.
Hsuan L. Hsu teaches American literature at Yale University.
A product of the spatial turn in the humanities and a timely publication in the field of American Studies…. The collected essays display an immense scope and testify to the strength and productivity of studying the relationship between geography and literature. Many of these essays are inventive and perceptive, and the book offers us an overview of different approaches toward a literary geography. American Literary Geographies is highly recommendable reading for anyone who is working on space, place, and geography in American Studies.
— Amerikastudien
Overall, American Literary Geographies has many strengths….it is the contributors' imaginative use of rich archival materials and close attention to reading early geography texts that makes the best case for the necessity of literary disciplinary intervention into American space and place studies.
— Jani Scandura, University of Minnesota