2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American novelist — author of Moby-Dick and Bartleby, the Scrivener — who died in obscurity but whose reputation was fully restored in the 1920s — whose work is now considered the pinnacle of American Romanticism.
American historian at UMass Amherst who wrote Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom and Imperial Twilight — providing narrative accounts of the Taiping Rebellion and the Opium Wars respectively, making 19th century Chinese history accessible to general audiences.