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“dr steven moore”

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  • The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800

    by Dr Steven Moore ...
    Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHaving excavated the world's earliest novels in his previous book, literary historian Steven Moore explores in this sequel the remarkable flowering of the novel between the years 1600 and 1800-from Don Quixote to America's first big novel, an homage to Cervantes entitled Modern Chivalry. This ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • William Gaddis: Expanded Edition

    by Dr Steven Moore ...
    In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of all three of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Unstuck in Time

    A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut's Life and Novels

    by Gregory D. Sumner ...
    In Unstuck in Time, Gregory Sumner guides us, with insight and passion, through a biography of fifteen of Kurt Vonnegut’s best known works, his fourteen novels starting with Player Piano (1952) all the way to an epilogue on his last book, A Man Without a Country (2005), to illustrate the quintessential American writer’s profound engagement with the "American Dream" in its various forms. Sumner ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

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  • Trimalchio

    An Early Version of The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgerald’s working methods, fresh insight into his characters, and renewed appreciation of his genius—now available in ebook for the first time.Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio, an early and complete version of The Great Gatsby, is like listening to a ... Read more

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  • Alice Munro's Narrative Art

    by I. Duncan ...
    Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories. ... Read more

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  • Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction

    by Patricia Okker ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S. minority periodicals. Beloved by readers, these serial novels helped sustain the periodicals and communities in which they circulated. With essays on serial fiction published from the 1820s through the 1960s written in ten different languages—English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, ... Read more

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  • Disciplining Girls

    Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story

    by Joe Sutliff Sanders ...
    At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic orphan girl novels of Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, and other ... Read more

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  • At the End of the Road

    Jack Kerouac in Mexico

    by Jorge García-Robles ...
    Translated by Daniel C. Schechter ...
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  • Reading Rape

    The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990

    by Sabine Sielke ...
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