Getting Started with The American Renaissance
If you haven't already checked it out, Mattiessen's American Renaissance is a foundational text for this period in American Literature. It is on reserve at the Library's circulation desk under the call number: 810.903 M443A. Click here to view the record.
Getting Started with Literary Analysis
Analyzing a work of literature requires you to consider how and why that work was created and how and why that work remains important. As a scholar, you should consider the perspective of the person who created the work, but also your own perspective.
Help from the Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Literary Devices