For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen…

This collection of studies explores different types of historical literary studies, and develops a socio-historical criticism for literary works. While focusing on 19th-century works, its arguments are applicable to literary…

This is volume four of the landmark edition of Byron’s poetry. Indispensable for Byron scholars, it represents the most comprehensive editing of his poetry ever undertaken.

Among all manual arts used in this land, none is more famous for desert, or more beneficial to the commonwealth, than is the most necessary art of clothing. So begins…

Contributors explore Edgar Allan Poe’s anti-nationalistic Americanism as they redefine the outlines of antebellum print culture and challenge ideas that situate Poe at the margins of national thought and cultural…