Description: An important book for all those concerned with the course of American culture and literature.
Brief description: William J. Scheick, J.R. Miliken Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, is the author of Design in Puritan American Literature.
Review Quotes:
Straightforward and concise exploration of how the nineteenth-century American mind responded to the actual and symbolic mingling of red and white blood, barbaric and civilized societies.
-- "The South Carolina Review"