Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • In the Tennessee Mountains

    “Hardwig makes Murfree come alive for us, and he helps us to see why we should still care about her work and her understanding of her historical moment and region.”—Stephanie Foote, author of Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature“The rapid ascent and decline of Murfree’s literary reputation, her unique standing as a popular interpreter of Appalachian ... Read more

    $18.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Background in Tennessee

    by Evelyn Scott ...
    Born Elsie Dunn in 1893 Clarksville, Tennessee, Evelyn Scott lived a tumultuous life that took her to New York, Brazil, western Europe, and the Caribbean. She published twelve novels during her lifetime and was a notable literary figure in the 1920s and 1930s. Published in 1937 alongside her penultimate novel, Background in Tennessee is an autobiographical work devoted to Scott’s Tennessee ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Cormac Works

    McCarthy, Language, and Style

    by Bill Hardwig ...
    Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different from one another, show a consistent commitment to formal experimentation motivated by a love of language and the possibilities therein. While it is McCarthy’s grim depiction of violence and his texts’ complex philosophical perspectives that receive the most attention from scholars ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Upon Provincialism

    Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900

    by Bill Hardwig ...
    Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South. In many ways, he attests, the national representation of the South was ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Works of Charles W. Chesnutt

    Edited by Susanna Ashton, Bill Hardwig ...
    Series Book 149 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Growing up in Cleveland after the Civil War and during the brutal rollback of Reconstruction and the onset of Jim Crow, Charles W. Chesnutt could have passed as white but chose to identify himself as black. An intellectual and activist involved with the NAACP who engaged in debate with Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, he wrote fiction and essays that addressed issues as various as ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Love & Theft

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

    by Eric Lott ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Color of Sex

    Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

    Series series New Americanists
    In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Pictures and Progress

    Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

    Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War

    by Peter Schmidt ...
    This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists—examines how popular fiction contributed to and contested new forms of white racial dominance, collectively known as Jim Crow or the "color-line," in the U.S. in the 1880s and after. I focus in particular on the cultural work undertaken by the "command performance" scene in these texts, in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that ... Read more

    $20.49 USD