The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field.

• The most inclusive survey yet published of American regional literature.
• Represents a wide variety of theoretical and historical approaches.
• Surveys the literature of specific regions from California to New England and from Alaska to Hawaii.
• Discusses authors and groups who have been important in defining regional American literature.

Charles L. Crow is Emeritus Professor at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is co-editor of The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920 (1984) and The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives (1983), and editor of American Gothic: An Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 1999). He has been president of the Frank Norris Society, and a member of the executive council of the Western Literature Association.