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  • Playing the Races

    Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism

    by Henry B. Wonham ...
    Why did so many of the writers who aligned themselves with the social and aesthetic aims of American literary realism rely on stock conventions of ethnic caricature in their treatment of immigrant and African-American figures? As a self-described "tool of the democratic spirit," designed to "prick the bubble of abstract types," literary realism would seem to have little in common with the ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Mark Twain and Money

    Language, Capital, and Culture

    by Henry B. Wonham, Lawrence Howe, Lawrence Howe, Judith Yaross Lee, Mark Schiebe, Ann M. Ryan, Gregg Camfield, Joseph Csicsila0, Susanne Weil1, M. Christine Benner Dixon2, Sharon McCoy3, Jonathan Hayes4, Jeffery W. Miller5 ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating Samuel Clemens’s often conflicting but insightful views on the roles of money in American culture and ... Read more

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    by Thorstein Veblen ...
    Series series Unabridged Start Publishing LLC
    The Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism. Veblen argues that economic life is driven not by notions of utility, but by social vestiges from pre-historic times. Drawing examples from his time (turn-of-the-century America) and anthropology, he held that much of today's society is a variation on early tribal life. It ... Read more

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  • Cormac McCarthy

    All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road

    Edited by Sara Spurgeon ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Cormac McCarthy, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field ... Read more

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  • The Raven

    by Edgar Allan Poe ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    The RavenEdgar Allan POE (1809 - 1849)"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is ... Read more

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  • With Love and Squalor

    13 Writers Responds to the Work of J.D. Salinger

    by Kip Kotzen, Thomas Beller ...
    Reading The Catcher in the Rye has become a rite of passage for young Americans, landing the book on bestseller lists (and banned book lists) each year, even though it was published a half century ago. What is it about J. D. Salinger and his body of work that has left such a lasting mark on American fiction? And who better to answer that question than the current generation of writers?Here are ... Read more

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  • The Necessary Angel

    Essays on Reality and the Imagination

    by Wallace Stevens ...
    In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the ... Read more

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  • Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    This selection of interviews showcases the remarkable career of one of this generation’s greatest and most divisive thinkers—featuring a foreword by Stephen Fry.“ . . . pulls together some of Hitchens’s greatest dialogues, each sparkling with intelligence and wit.” —New York Times Book ReviewIf someone says I’m doing this out of faith, I say, Why don’t you do it out of conviction?One of his ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

    by Joel Dinerstein ...
    An "entertaining" study of the enduring concept of coolness, and the mix of cultures and historical events that shaped it ( The New York Times).Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a ... Read more

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  • Unlikely Collaboration

    Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

    by Barbara Will ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and ... Read more

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  • The Long Voyage

    by Malcolm Cowley ...
    Critic, poet, editor, chronicler of the Lost Generation, elder statesman of the Republic of Letters, Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was an eloquent witness to American literary and political life. His letters, mostly unpublished, provide a self-portrait of Cowley and his time and make possible a full appreciation of his long, varied career. ... Read more

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  • American Renaissance

    Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

    by Francis Otto Matthiessen ...
    This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century—Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of the nature and function of literature, and the extent to which these were realized in their writings. ... Read more

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