Established in 1981 and with well over 100 titles now in print, Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture is internationally regarded as the leading forum for high-level American critical studies. Volumes in the series are written by outstanding scholars from the United States and Europe, and cover a wide range of key topics and approaches.

• Founding Editors: Albert Gelpi, Stanford University
• General Editors: Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University, New York
• Advisory Boards: Alfred Bendixen, Texas A&M University, Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University, Massachusetts, Ronald Bush, St John's College, Oxford, Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University, Connecticut, Albert Gelpi, Stanford University, California, Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois, Chicago, Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago