LARRY J. REYNOLDS is a Distinguished Professor of English and the Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is author or editor of eight previous books including Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne’s Damned Politics and European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance.

One of those rare and important books that will seem to its readers at once strikingly new and utterly central to the study of the American Renaissance. Reynolds’s readings offer new ways to see each writer’s emotional and intellectual trajectory and to deepen our understanding of political violence—an enterprise made resonant by the question of terrorism and violence in our own time.

LARRY J. REYNOLDS is a Distinguished Professor of English and the Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is author or editor of eight previous books including Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne’s Damned Politics and European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance.

One of those rare and important books that will seem to its readers at once strikingly new and utterly central to the study of the American Renaissance. Reynolds’s readings offer new ways to see each writer’s emotional and intellectual trajectory and to deepen our understanding of political violence—an enterprise made resonant by the question of terrorism and violence in our own time.

LARRY J. REYNOLDS is a Distinguished Professor of English and the Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is author or editor of eight previous books including Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne’s Damned Politics and European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance.

One of those rare and important books that will seem to its readers at once strikingly new and utterly central to the study of the American Renaissance. Reynolds’s readings offer new ways to see each writer’s emotional and intellectual trajectory and to deepen our understanding of political violence—an enterprise made resonant by the question of terrorism and violence in our own time.