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  • Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels

    A Secular Reading

    by Geoffrey Rans ...
    James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America’s first major works of fiction. Here, Geoffrey Rans provides not simply a new reading of the five novels that comprise the series but also a new way of reading them.Rans analyzes each of the five novels (The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie, The Pathfinder, and The ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Twelve Angry Men

    by Reginald Rose ...
    A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • I Love You More Than You Know

    Essays

    by Jonathan Ames ...
    "Utterly delightful" essays from the creator of the HBO's Bored to Death reveal intimate details of his life as a famously neurotic New York writer ( Brendan Halpin, Los Angeles Times) .Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the ... Read more

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  • On Reading The Grapes of Wrath

    by Susan Shillinglaw ...
    In this compelling biography of a book, Susan Shillinglaw delves into John Steinbeck's classic to explore the cultural, social, political, scientific, and creative impact of The Grapes of Wrath upon first publication, as well as its enduring legacy. First published in April 1939, Steinbeck's National Book Award-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of The Great Gatsby

    Based on the Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    by Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Great Gatsby tells you what you need to know—before or after you read F. Scott Fitzgerald's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald includes:Historical contextChapter-by ... Read more

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  • Sentimental Materialism

    Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Lori Merish ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts—from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars—Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers

    Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

    by Arthur Redding ...
    The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism.In Turncoats, Traitors, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Best Minds of My Generation

    A Literary History of the Beats

    by Allen Ginsberg ...
    In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem “Howl,” and Jack Kerouac’s seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this course, which he ended up teaching five times, first at the Naropa Institute and later at Brooklyn College, Ginsberg saw an opportunity to present the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Natural Aristocracy

    History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner

    by Kevin Railey ...
    Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach--which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world--to identify and historicize Faulkner’s authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces that surrounded his life, Railey explores the interrelationships between American history and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Images of the Modern Vampire

    The Hip and the Atavistic

    Edited by Barbara Brodman, James E. Doan ...
    In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Therapy Through Faёrie

    Therapeutic Properties of Fantasy Literature by the Inklings and by U. K. Le Guin

    by Anna Cholewa-Purgal ...
    This book argues that the fantasy fiction rooted in J. R. R. Tolkien’s concept of Faёrie, as represented by the fantasy works of the Inklings and of U. K. Le Guin, has certain psychotherapeutic properties. Faёrie’s generic ‘ethos’ seems to draw on ‘moral imagination’ and on logos (meaning and word), which informs its secondary worlds and encourages a search for an unconditional sense of life, ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • Nation and Migration

    The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765-1835

    by Juliet Shields ...
    Nation and Migration explores the significant contributions of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales to the development of a British Atlantic literature and culture, moving beyond traditional studies of transatlantic literature that focus on what Stephen Spender has described as the "love-hate relations" between the United States and England. By allowing England to stand in for the British archipelago, ... Read more

    $91.79 USD