Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature - Paperback

by Michael J. Colacurcio (Author)

Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to study the authors of what was previously called "The American Renaissance", reading them together in the light of their shared inheritance.

Author Biography

Michael J. Colacurcio was born in Cincinnati and educated there by Jesuits. He took his Ph.D. at Illinois in 1963 and went to work at Cornell, moving to UCLA in 1985, where he is now a Distinguished Professor. Winner of teaching awards at both universities and, since 2007, a member of the American Society of Arts and Sciences, his works include The Province of Piety (1985), Doctrine and Difference (1997), Godly Letters (2006), and Emerson and Other Minds (2020).