John Neal: Early American literary nationalist and regionalist Edgar Allan Poe: Dark Romanticism, Short-Story Theory T. S. Eliot: Modernism Harold Bloom: Aestheticism Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation, On Photography John Updike: Literary realism/modernism and aestheticist critic M. H. Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp (study of Romanticism) F. O. Matthiessen: originated the concept "American Renaissance" Perry Miller: Puritan studies Henry Nash Smith: founder of the "Myth and Symbol School" of American criticism Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden (study of technology and culture) Leslie Fiedler: Love and Death in the American Novel Stanley Fish: Pragmatism Henry Louis Gates: African-American literary theory Gerald Vizenor: Native American literary theory William Dean Howells: Literary realism Stephen Greenblatt: New Historicism Geoffrey Hartman: Yale school of deconstruction John Crowe Ransom: New Criticism Cleanth Brooks: New Criticism Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric studies Elaine Showalter: Feminist criticism Sandra M. Gilbert: Feminist criticism Susan Gubar: Feminist criticism Alicia Ostriker: feminist criticism J. Hillis Miller: Deconstruction Edward Said: Postcolonial criticism Jonathan Culler: Critical theory, deconstruction Judith Butler: Post-structuralist feminism Gloria E. Anzaldúa: Latina literary theory Ilan Stavans: Latino cultural theory Frederick Luis Aldama: Latino literature in the United States Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Queer theory Fredric Jameson: Marxist criticism