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Theorizes and examines the genre of white liberal race fiction from the 18th century to the present~Places recognizably important novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin, Huckleberry Finn, and To Kill a Mockingbird in a new light by linking them together in the effort to create racial liberalism through fiction~Mixes history, biography, close reading, cultural analysis, and literary theory in prose that is lively and accessible

In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: how does the choice of a particular theory after the practice of reading, and how do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more theory?

Gregory S. Fay boldly questions the future prospects of American literary studies. Jay addresses questions and others relating to American literary studies to explain why this once arcane academic discipline has found itself so often in the news during the culture wars of the 1990s.