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James Fenimore Cooper - American Writers 48 was first published in 1965. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Spiller recalls his pilgrimage as a scholar in this moving autobiographical tour through formative years in the history of the American studies movement. He testifies to attempting to become Emerson's "American Scholar", and argues that American studies, as far as he is concerned, appear as a logical extension of his transcendentalist quest after a national literature and culture.

A selective compilation of nearly 600 of the letters Dreiser wrote between 1897 and 1945, gleaned from the massive collection on Dreiser at the University of Pennsylvania.

Discusses the literary importance of 32 books by writers such as Lewis Mumford, D.H. Lawrence, Vernon Louis Parrington, Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian, Bernard Fay, Norman Foerster, Howard Mumford Jones, Constance Rourke, Percy H. Boynton, Henry Seidel Canby, Myron F. Brightfield, Granville Hicks, Malcolm Cowley, Van Wyck Brooks, Josephine K. Piercy, Ralph H. Gabriel, F.O. Matthiessen, Augusto Santino, Donald Stauffer, Frank Luther Mott, Alfred Cazin, J. Donald Adams, Charles Cestre, Alexander Cowie, Lars Aahnebrink, Van Wyck Brooks, Frederick J. Hoffman, Harold C. Gardiner, Louise Bogan, Maxwell Geismar, Randall Stewart, and Willard Thorp.

Fifteen essays on the flowering of American national literature and its influence on our culture.