The American Literary History Reader

In just five years, American Literary History has emerged as the leading journal devoted to U. S. literary and cultural studies. No other journal enjoys its range, consistency, and venturesomeness. None is as lively, as provocative, or as influential. A.L.H. has helped to redefine the theory and practice of American criticism, and it has done so by circulating essays that a generation of critics have found indispensible to restructuring the American cultural scene.