01051cas a2200145   4500008004100000022001300041035002000054050004900074245003000123260001000153310001400163362005300177520065400230650002100884170112n                            eng u  a08967148  a(Sirsi) a199861  ahttp://www.jstor.org/subject/americanstudies  aAmerican Literary History  aJSTOR  aQuarterly  aVol. 1, No. 1 , 1989  -  Vol.  23 , No. 4 , 2011  aTables of contents for recent issues of American Literary History are available at http://www3.oup.co.uk/alhist/contents. Authorized users may be able to access the full text articles at this site.Recent Americanist scholarship has generated some of the most forceful responses to questions about literary history and theory. Yet too many of the most provocative essays have been scattered among a wide variety of narrowly focused publications. Covering the study of U.S. literature from its origins through the present, American Literary History provides a much-needed forum for the various, often competing voices of contemporary literary inquiry.  aAmerican Studies