In the twentieth century, many great works of American fiction took the form of collections of short stories by a single author, such as Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio or Ernest…

This volume in The Oxford History of the Novel in English reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel.

Examining work by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine M. Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Lydia Maria Child, Strange Nation investigates America’s often vexed relationships with the practice…

This book focuses on social and environmental regulation as they evaluate problems of costly and ineffective regulatory measures and argues that, although some programs have been made more cost efficient…