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  • Reconstituting the American Renaissance

    Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation

    by Jay Grossman, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving vexed questions of who shall speak and for whom—lie at the heart of American political and literary ... Read more

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  • Arms

    The Culture and Credo of the Gun

    by Andrew Somerset ...
    After a fifteen-year hiatus from the world of guns, journalist, sports shooter, and former soldier A.J. Somerset no longer fit in with other firearm enthusiasts. Theirs was a culture much different than the one he remembered: a culture more radical, less tolerant, and more immovable in its beliefs, as if [each] gun had come with a free, bonus ideological Family Pack [of political tenets], a ready ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Liberal Imagination

    by Lionel Trilling ...
    The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Typewriter Is Holy

    The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation

    by Bill Morgan ...
    2014 ACKER AWARD WINNERAnyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation.In this highly entertaining work, Bill Morgan, the country’s leading authority on the movement and a man who personally knew most of the Beats, narrates the history of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • My Generation

    Collected Nonfiction

    by William Styron ...
    A vital, illuminating collection of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner’s elegant, passionately engaged nonfictionMy Generation is the definitive gathering of William Styron’s nonfiction, exposing the core of this greatly gifted, highly convivial, and profoundly serious artist from his literary emergence in the 1950s to his death in 2006.Here are fifty years of Styron’s essays, ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • A Cormac McCarthy Companion

    The Border Trilogy

    Edited by Edwin T. Arnold, Dianne C. Luce ...
    With essays by Edwin T. Arnold, J. Douglas Canfield, Christine Chollier, George Guillemin, Dianne C. Luce, Jacqueline Scoones, Phillip A. Snyder, Nell Sullivan, and John WegnerThe completion of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy--All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998)--marked a major achievement in American literature. Only ten years earlier this now ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Poetry in Person

    Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets

    Edited by Alexander Neubauer ...
    “In the fall of 1970, at the New School in Greenwich Village, a new teacher posted a flyer on the wall,” begins Alexander Neubauer’s introduction to this remarkable book. “It read ‘Meet Poets and Poetry, with Pearl London and Guests.’” Few students responded. No one knew Pearl London, the daughter of M. Lincoln Schuster, cofounder of Simon & Schuster. But the seminar’s first guests turned out to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Editing Emily Dickinson

    The Production of an Author

    by Lena Christensen ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the conventions of the book and the electronic archive has been informed by editors' assumptions about the literary ... Read more

    $45.99 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

  • American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War

    A Critical Reassessment

    Edited by Steven Belletto, Daniel Grausam ...
    Series series New American Canon
    The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War reveals a broad range of ways that ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Magical Muse

    Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams

    by Philip C. Kolin, Albert J. Devlin, Jeffrey B. Loomis, Robert Siegel, Nancy M. Tischler, Allean Hale, Barbara M. Harris, Michael Paller, Dan Sullivan, George W. Crandell, W. Kenneth Holditch, Jackson R. Bryer ...
    In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Selected Poems

    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...
    Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin ... Read more

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