A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past–and shows how we can revolutionize it to prepare students for our age of constant change

Challenges the limitations of thinking about nineteenth-century American culture within the narrow rubric of male public and female private spheres. This title examines the ways that the separate spheres binary…

The “sentimental novel’, in the tradition established by Samuel Richardson, was very popular in post-revolutionary America. This novel and "Charlotte Temple’ were two of the most successful examples.

The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each introduced by Cathy N. Davidson, who places the…