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Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel

by Gary Totten ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel examines Dreiser’s three published travel narratives, A Traveler at Forty (1913), A Hoosier Holiday (1916), and Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), along with his 1916–26 travel diaries for trips to Georgia, New Jersey, California, and Florida, and his impressions of his early days as a journalist in New York, captured in Newspaper Days (1922, 1931) and ... Read more

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Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel examines Dreiser’s three published travel narratives, A Traveler at Forty (1913), A Hoosier Holiday (1916), and Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), along with his 1916–26 travel diaries for trips to Georgia, New Jersey, California, and Florida, and his impressions of his early days as a journalist in New York, captured in Newspaper Days (1922, 1931) and
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Haunting Realities

Naturalist Gothic and American Realism

by Monika Elbert, Wendy Ryden, Stephen Arch, David Greven, Donna M. Campbell, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Steve Marsden0, Christine A. Wooley1, Dennis Berthold2, Alicia Mischa Renfroe3, Charlotte L. Quinney4, Gary Totten5, Dara Downey6, Daniel Mrozowski7, Kenneth K. Brandt8, Patricia Luedecke9, Lisa A. Long0 ...

Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities ... Read more

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An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often recognized as having taken place during the decades of American Romanticism. However, Haunting Realities
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Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom

by Jennifer Ann Ho, Joanne Lipson Freed, Yadira Gamez, C. A. Snyder, Lauren J. Gantz, Crystal R. Perez, Kristen Brown0, Norell Martinez1, Luis Cortés2, Emily R. Rutter3, Sarah Minslow4, Ariel Santos5, Kevin Pyon6, Shermaine M. Jones7, Marilyn Edelstein8, Nancy H. Carranza9, Naomi Edwards0, Martha J. Cutter1 ...

The contemporary rethinking and relearning of history and racism has sparked creative approaches for teaching the histories and representations of marginalized communities. Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten edit a collection that illuminates these ideas for a variety of fields, areas of education, and institutional contexts.The authors draw on their own racial and ethnic backgrounds to examine race ... Read more

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The contemporary rethinking and relearning of history and racism has sparked creative approaches for teaching the histories and representations of marginalized communities. Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten edit a collection that illuminates these ideas for a variety of fields, areas of education, and institutional contexts.The authors draw on their own racial and ethnic backgrounds to examine race
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A Companion to Multiethnic Literature of the United States

Edited by Gary Totten ...

Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United StatesA Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts, and new directions of American literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Engaging multiethnic literature as a distinct ... Read more

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Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United StatesA Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts, and new directions of American literature by authors of varied ethnic backgrounds. Engaging multiethnic literature as a distinct
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Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors

Edith Wharton and Material Culture

by Jamie Barlowe, Jacqueline Wilson-Jordan, Karin Roffman, J. Michael Duvall, Linda S. Watts, Deborah Zak, Lyn Bennett, Jennifer Shepherd, Carol Sapora, Dr. Emily J. Orlando ...

Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which she lived and about which she wrote. Furthermore, her meditations about issues of architecture, design ... Read more

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In Edith Wharton’s works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton evidence of cultural belief and reflect the values, assumptions, and customs of the burgeoning consumer culture in which she lived and about which she wrote. Furthermore, her meditations about issues of architecture, design
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Politics, Identity, and Mobility in Travel Writing

Edited by Miguel A. Cabañas, Jeanne Dubino, Veronica Salles-Reese, Gary Totten ...

Series series Routledge Research in Travel Writing
This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and ... Read more

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This collection examines the intersections between the personal and the political in travel writing, and the dialectic between mobility and stasis, through an analysis of specific cases across geographical and historical boundaries. The authors explore the various ways in which travel texts represent actual political conditions and thus engage in discussions about national, transnational, and
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Little Women

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by Louisa May Alcott ...

This edition of the American classic Little Women is a SmartAudioBook™ from SmartBookBinders. SmartAudioBooks feature seamlessly synchronized text and audio allowing the reader/listener to view the text, listen to the audio read by a narrator, or both simultaneously. When listening to the narrator the e-reader will highlight each phrase as it is being read. This feature can be used to assist ... Read more

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This edition of the American classic Little Women is a SmartAudioBook™ from SmartBookBinders. SmartAudioBooks feature seamlessly synchronized text and audio allowing the reader/listener to view the text, listen to the audio read by a narrator, or both simultaneously. When listening to the narrator the e-reader will highlight each phrase as it is being read. This feature can be used to assist
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The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Macabre Masterpieces, Gothic Horror, and Haunting Short Stories in One Legendary Collection

by Edgar Allan Poe ...

Dare to Enter the Shadowed World of Poe… ️ From the master of the macabre comes the ultimate anthology of dark imagination and psychological depth. "The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" brings together every chilling, mysterious, and poetic story that has cemented Poe as a literary legend. Inside This Definitive Collection: The Tell-Tale Heart – A descent into guilt and madness The Fall of the ... Read more

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Dare to Enter the Shadowed World of Poe… ️ From the master of the macabre comes the ultimate anthology of dark imagination and psychological depth. "The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" brings together every chilling, mysterious, and poetic story that has cemented Poe as a literary legend. Inside This Definitive Collection: The Tell-Tale Heart – A descent into guilt and madness The Fall of the
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Rilla of Ingleside (Unabridged)

Enriched edition. A Coming-of-Age Tale of the Blythe Family and the Home-Front Trials of World War I

by Lucy Maud Montgomery ...

In 'Rilla of Ingleside' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, readers are transported to the captivating world of Ingleside, where they follow the coming-of-age journey of Rilla Blythe during World War I. The novel is written in Montgomery's signature style, combining heartfelt storytelling with vivid descriptions of the Canadian landscape. As the last book in the 'Anne of Green Gables' series, 'Rilla of ... Read more

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In 'Rilla of Ingleside' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, readers are transported to the captivating world of Ingleside, where they follow the coming-of-age journey of Rilla Blythe during World War I. The novel is written in Montgomery's signature style, combining heartfelt storytelling with vivid descriptions of the Canadian landscape. As the last book in the 'Anne of Green Gables' series, 'Rilla of
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The Great Escape

Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton ...

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the ... Read more

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The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the
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Pride and Prejudice

With Austen for Beginners A Memoir of Jane Austen, illustrations, Free Audiobook Links

by Jane Austen ...

IllustrationsFree Audiobook LinksPride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and ... Read more

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IllustrationsFree Audiobook LinksPride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet household at Longbourn in Hertfordshire when young, eligible Mr. Charles Bingley rents the fine house nearby. He may have sisters, but he also has male friends, and
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The call of cthulhu

by H. P. Lovecraft ...

Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival...a survival of a hugely remote period when...consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity...forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds... ... Read more

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Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival...a survival of a hugely remote period when...consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity...forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...
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