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  • Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

    by Gesa Mackenthun ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The House of Mirth: With 18 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link.

    by Edith Wharton ...
    The House of Mirth is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels about manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly explore how American Victorian society offered little social mobility for women.It follows Lily’s slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence ... Read more

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  • Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

    by Michael Gorra ...
    A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel.Henry James (1843–1916) has had many biographers, but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism, and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of James’s masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady (1881). Gorra ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Henry David Thoreau

    A Life

    by Laura Dassow Walls ...
    This acclaimed biography captures the inspiring life and philosophy of an influential American thinker: "a moving portrait of a brilliant, complex man" ( The New York Times).Henry David Thoreau's attempt to "live deliberately" in the woods outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, has inspired individualists since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his ... Read more

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  • Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America

    by Deborah Nelson ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Achievement of Wendell Berry

    The Hard History of Love

    by Fritz Oehlschlaeger ...
    Series series Culture of the Land
    Arguably one of the most important American writers working today, Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books, including novels and collections of poems, short stories, and essays. A prominent spokesman for agrarian values, Berry frequently defends such practices and ideas as sustainable agriculture, healthy rural communities, connection to place, the pleasures of work, and the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Diaries, Letters, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies (Unabridged)

    Diaries, Letters, and a Literary Legacy

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne, F. P. Stearns, G. P. Lathrop ...
    This capacious unabridged anthology reconstructs Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and imaginative stature through diaries, correspondence, reminiscences, criticism, and biography. Its documentary intimacy meets a striking range of nineteenth-century prose: private observation, familial recollection, literary appraisal, and interpretive narrative. Hawthorne's own records illuminate the habits and ... Read more

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  • Parallel Encounters

    Culture at the Canada-US Border

    Edited by Gillian Roberts, David Stirrup ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional sites along the border and examine a rich variety of expressive forms, including poetry, fiction, drama, visual art, television, and ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Wolfpen Notebooks

    A Record of Appalachian Life

    by James Still ...
    After keeping school for six years at the forks of Troublesome Creek in the Kentucky hills, James Still moved to a century-old log house between the waters of Wolfpen Creek and Dead Mare Branch, on Little Carr Creek, and became "the man in the bushes" to his curious neighbors. Still joined the life of the scattered community. He raised his own food, preserved fruits and vegetables for the winter, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Demographic Angst

    Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s

    by Alan Nadel ...
    Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor.Demographic Angst argues that mandated normativity—as a political agenda and a social ethic—precluded explicit ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism

    by Greg Forter ...
    American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Male Call

    Becoming Jack London

    by Jonathan Auerbach ...
    Series series New Americanists
    When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by closely examining how the struggling young writer sought to promote himself in his early work as a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD