First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Russell J. Reising

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chapter 1 The unused past; Chapter 2 The problem of Puritan origins in literary history and theory; Chapter 3 'Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is'; Chapter 4 American Literature Should Not Mean But Be; Chapter 5 What is to Be Done?; Chapter 6 Conclusion;