American Fiction

[ARTICLE] Landscape and Masculinity in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

This article won the 2018 British Association for American Studies (BAAS) postgraduate essay award. It was originally published on US Studies Online. Since his first works came to critical attention, Ernest Hemingway has occupied a space in the critical and cultural

The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom

The Daemon Knows is an exploration of what Bloom calls the “American sublime”: that class of literature that reaches beyond the human, in a way that is distinctly American. What is beyond the human falls, by Bloom’s estimation, into three