American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Linda Wagner-Martin
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century publishes works by contemporary critics that help shape critical opinion regarding literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States.
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Stephen Marino
Department of English, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, USA
David Palmer
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay, MA, USA
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
ISBN 978-3-030-37292-7 e-ISBN 978-3-030-37293-4
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37293-4
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Preface
This book is a project of the Arthur Miller Society, a group of academics committed to furthering the study and performance of Millers plays and the exploration of his ideas. The Miller Society was founded by Steven R. Centola in 1995, growing out of conferences on Miller he had organized at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. Since then the Miller Society has hosted twelve more conferences devoted to Miller and his work in addition to organizing panels on Miller at national and international literature conferences, such as the American Literature Association Conference, the Comparative Drama Conference, and the International Conference on American Drama and Theater, which generally is held in Europe. In 2006, the Miller Society launched theArthur Miller Journal, a semi-annual periodical containing articles about Miller and his works, reviews of productions of Millers plays, and notices of new books relevant to Miller studies. The journal is published by Penn State University Press. The Miller Society invites as new members anyone with an interest in Millers life and plays, his other writings and his role as a public intellectual, or the development of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American theater. More information about the Arthur Miller Society, upcoming events related to Miller, and theArthur Miller Journalcan be found at the following websites:
The Arthur Miller Society: https://arthurmillersociety.net/ .
The Arthur Miller Society on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arthurmillersociety/ .
TheArthur Miller Journalat Penn State University Press: http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_ArthurMiller.html .