The British cringed over new American accents, coinages and vulgarisms. Prophets of doom flourished; the English language in America was going to disappear.

24/7 Tempo reached out to several English professors to compile a list of 20 English literature classics everyone should read at least once. (The list does not include novels written in languages ...

Broaden and deepen your critical engagement with English and American literature and its contexts. Study at a top five UK university for American Studies (Complete University Guide 2022). Access the ...

Combine English Literature with an immersion in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies; Study a broad range of literatures in English, while focusing on US literary and cultural studies from ...

Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary ...

Literature of exile, literature of place. If I chose to do so, I could make a case that in the last 50 years or so, ... written in English by a Mexican American born in Baja California, ...

As a scholar of Asian American literature, assistant professor of English Lamyu Maria Bo centers her classes around three keywords: “diaspora,” “translation” and “multilingual.” Much ...

In the 1960s, when some in academia still denied the existence of Native American literature, Paula Gunn Allen embarked on a career that proved them wrong -- and altered the required reading lists ...

No American who happened to be in England during that experience can ever again doubt the depth and reality of English and American cousinship. Thomas Wentworth Higginson . The Nineteenth Century ...

In American literature we have a fresh field and an old race ; we have new conditions, and an experience which antedates them. We were educated in the Old World, and a man carries his education ...