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  • A History of American Gay Autobiography

    Edited by David Bergman, Guy Davidson ...
    Telling one's own story has always been central to American gay culture. Yet until now there has been no extensive history of gay American autobiography. This volume provides the first comprehensive study of this crucial genre in all its complexity and diversity. Its lively and insightful analyses of a wealth of gay American autobiographical texts attend both to their historical significance and ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Queer Objects

    Edited by Guy Davidson, Monique Rooney ...
    Series series Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
    Pursuing the discursive or material effects of relational queerness, this book reflects on how objects can illuminate, affect, and animate queer modes of being.In the early 1990s the queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick defined queer as “multiply transitive . . . relational and strange,” rather than a fixed identity. In spite of this, much of the queer theoretical scholarship of the last three ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Categorically Famous

    Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America

    by Guy Davidson ...
    Series series Post*45
    The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers—James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal—in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers "came out" in our current sense, all contributed, through their public images and their writing, to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Literary Careers in the Modern Era

    Edited by Guy Davidson, Nicola Evans ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Great War and Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell ...
    The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

    by Laurie Rozakis ...
    You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Unbuttoning America

    A Biography of "Peyton Place"

    by Ardis Cameron ...
    Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up in poverty in a New Hampshire mill town and had aspired to be a writer from childhood, loosely based ... Read more

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  • A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Jack Turner ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    The writings of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) have captivated scholars, activists, and ecologists for more than a century. Less attention has been paid, however, to the author's political philosophy and its influence on American public life. Although Thoreau's doctrine of civil disobedience has long since become a touchstone of world history, the greater part of his political legacy has been ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Revolution and the Word

    The Rise of the Novel in America

    by Cathy N. Davidson ...
    Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of early America. By looking at everything from publishers' account books to marginalia scrawled in eighteenth-century books to the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry James

    Edited by Jonathan Freedman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • William Faulkner

    Self-Presentation and Performance

    by James G. Watson ...
    Series series Literary Modernism
    In his life and writings, William Faulkner continually created and "performed" selves. Even in letters, he often played a part—gentleman dandy, soldier, farmer—while in his fictions these and other personae are counterpoised against one another to create a world of controlled chaos, made in Faulkner's own protean image and reflective of his own multiple sense of self.In this groundbreaking book, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Interrogating Popular Culture

    Key Questions

    by Stacy Takacs ...
    Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, addressing:Definitions: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time ... Read more

    $72.99 USD