Publisher's Synopsis
Founded in 1971, Resources for American Literary Study soon became a favoured venue for archival scholarship and bibliographical analysis in American literature. Recent issues have featured unpublished letters from F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Bret Harte, Edith Wharton, Alice James, Willa Cather, and Nathanael West; analyses of manuscripts by Thoreau, Hemingway, Eugene O’Neill; and checklists of letters by John Cheever. Book reviews are also prominent feature in every volume.