Description: New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.| Includes bibliographical references
and index.| Summary:“As we begin to leave the Gutenberg age, and into a era dominated by …

In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century,
literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and …

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of
the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. Drawing out the connections …

For the US South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical
landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run …

Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: A Cultural History provides a panoramic and
accessible introduction to the era in which Latin America took its first steps into the Modern …

Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use" Mark Twain"
as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his …

Blending cultural history, biography, and literary criticism, this book explores how one of
America's greatest icons used the French to help build a new sense of what it is to be …

Samuel L. Clemens died a rich man, leaving an estate of more than $600,000 in 1910
(about $14.8 million in 2014 dollars)—a success all the more remarkable in light of his many …

Although our core audience consists of the members of AHSA who sponsor StAH, serve on
its editorial board, and submit their research (we imagine them pouring over each printed …

In No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger and other late works, Mark Twain explores the
disruptions to prevailing narratives of nationality and race caused by novel patterns of …