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Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2

Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination

by Crystal S. Anderson, David D. Anderson, Kathie Ryckman Anderson, Patricia Anderson, Marilyn Judith Atlas, Thomas Fox Averill, Paul Baggett, William Barillas, Jill Barnum, Anne Beck, Robert Beasecker, James M. Boehnlein, Sheena Denney Boran, Victoria Brehm, Rachel Breneman, Roger Bresnahan, Emily Thornton Calvo, Sharon Carlson, Jennifer Cathey, Andrew R. L. Cayton, Haeja K. Chung, Emily Churilla, Hannah L. Coffey, Daniel P. Compora, Sheila Marie Contreras, Leslie Czechowski, Edward Dauterich, Todd Fleming Davis, Theresa Delgadillo, Jill Doerfler, Robert Dunne, Maureen N. Eke, Carol Fadda-Conrey, Katherine Fama, Timothy C. Frazer, Philip L. Gerber, Kenneth B. Grant, Marsha O. Greasley, Øyvind T. Gulliksen, Benjamin Hale, Willie J. Harrell, Stephen C. Holder, Ashley Hopkins, Jeffrey Hotz, William E. Huntzicker, Katherine Joslin, Immaculate Kizza, Sara Kosiba, Joyce R. Ladenson, Clarence Lindsay, Larry Lockridge, Loren Logsdon, Paul W. Miller, David Newquist, Marcia Noe, Mary DeJong Obuchowski, Sally E. Parry, Steve Paul, David Perusek, John R. Pfeiffer, Rod Phillips, Denise Pilato, Ronald Primeau, David Radavich, Kristy Nelson Raine, Milton Reigelman, Garyn G. Roberts, John Rohrkemper, Robert L. Root, Margaret Rozga, Herbert K. Russell, Mike Ryan, David K. Sauer, Ann L. Seaton, James Seaton, Marc Kelly Smith, Joyce Caldwell Smith, Crystal Stallman, Jeffrey Swenson, Guy Szuberla, Thom Tammaro, Jon C. Teaford, Catherine Tobin, Ellen Serlen Uffen, Lance Weldy, Johnnie Wilcox, Keith Wilhite, Douglas Wixson, Joseph Wydeven, Susan Yanos ...

The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and ... Read more

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The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation's Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern literary works, literary genres, literary, cultural, historical, and social movements, state and
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Beyond Nancy Drew

U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century

by LuElla D'Amico, Emily Hamilton-Honey, Jill Hobgood, Erika Johansson Lunding, Todd Latoski, Susan Ingalls Lewis, Gregory Eiselein, Robin Cadwallader, Melanie J. Fishbane0, Karen Keely1, Jill E. Anderson2, Liz W. Faber3, Michael Cornelius4 ...

Series series Children and Youth in Popular Culture
This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for ... Read more

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This book examines the narratives of series heroines that preceded and followed Nancy Drew, each in relation to their social, historical, and economic environments. Covering heroines including Miss Pickerell, Madge Sterling, and Polly the Powers Model, among others, this book illustrates that the recovery of stolen inheritances during the Great Depression serves different social ends than, for
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Gender and Environment in Science Fiction

by Jill E. Anderson, Steve Asselin, Stina Attebery, Bridgitte Barclay, Amelia Z. Greene, Tyler Harper, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Juan Juvé, Carter Soles, Christy Tidwell1, Michelle Yates2 ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and “nature” interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of living; it asks what if, and that question is the basis for alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of. What ... Read more

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Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and “nature” interact in science fiction films and fictions, exploring questions of different realities and posing new ones. Science fiction asks questions to propose other ways of living; it asks what if, and that question is the basis for alternative narratives of ourselves and the world we are a part of. What
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Disability and the Environment in American Literature

Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm

by Jill E. Anderson, Elizabeth S. Callaway, Phoebe Chen, James J. Donahue, Barbara George, Katherine Lashley, Amanda Stuckey ...

Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained for both fields by putting them in conversation, and they do so in a variety of ways. In this manner, ... Read more

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This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained for both fields by putting them in conversation, and they do so in a variety of ways. In this manner,
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California Prehistory

Colonization, Culture, and Complexity

by Ivano Aiello, Mark W. Allen, R Scott Anderson, Mark E. Basgall, Viviana Bellefemine, David G. Bieling, Brian F. Byrd, Robert Cartier, Jim Cassidy, Joseph L. Chartkoff, Jon M. Erlandson, Jason A. Eshleman, Richard T. Fitzgerald, David A. Fredrickson, LynnH Gamble, Jill K. Gardner, Donna Gillette, Amy J. Gilreath, Michael A. Glassow, Victor Golla, Andrew Gottsfield, Randy G. Groza, William R. Hildebrandt, Richard E. Hughes, Kathleen L. Hull, Mark G. Hylkema, Deborah A. Jones, Don Laylander, Alan Leventhal, Patricia M. Masters, Kelly R. McGuire, Randall Milliken, Michael J. Moratto, Tom Origer, Jennifer E. Perry, Judith F. Porcasi, L Mark Raab, Torben C. Rick, Michael F. Rondeau, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Glenn S. Russell, Jerry Schaefer, David Glenn Smith, Nathan E. Stevens, Eric Strother, Mark Q. Sutton, James A. Wanket, G James West, Gregory G. White, Randy Wiberg, Wallace Woolfenden ...

Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory ... Read more

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Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory
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More Alternative Truths

by Bob Brown, Gwyndyn T. Alexander, Lou J. Berger, Rebecca McFarland Kyle, Adam-Troy Castro, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Bobby Lee Featherston, Brad Cozzens, Bruno Lombardi, Colin Patrick Ennan, David Brin, David Gerrold, Debora Godfrey, Edd Vick, Msnny Frishberg, Edward Ahern, Susan Murrie Macdonald, Eric M. Witchey, Esther Friesner, Vonda N. McIntyre, Irene Radford, Jane Yolen, Jill Zeller, Jim Wright, John A. Pitts, K.G. Anderson, Karen L. Frank, Kerri-Leigh Grady, Kurt Newton, Lou Antonelli, Lou J Berger, Melinda LaFevers, MIchael Haynes, Mike Morgan, Philip Brian Hall, Rebecca Mix, Rivka Jacobs, Stephanie L Weippert, V. E. Mitchell, Stuart Hardy, Tais Teng, Wondra Vanian, C. A. Chesse ...

More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the future? Will it devolve into a Russian style oligarchy, or will we rise to the challenge and use our hearts, our ... Read more

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More Alternative Truths is an exploration of the potential consequences of today’s politics in our daily lives. More than our individual lives, but our American identity.This exploration defines this anthology. So many of the stories ask what has America become? What will it be in the future? Will it devolve into a Russian style oligarchy, or will we rise to the challenge and use our hearts, our
... Read more
Down the Road and Back Again

Critical Approaches to The Golden Girls

Edited by Jill E. Anderson, Alissa Burger ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies
This is the first book‑length study of The Golden Girls, which ran for seven award‑winning seasons from 1985 to 1992 and produced two spin-offs.Through a cultural studies approach, this collection examines a wide range of topics, including race, sexuality, queerness, memory, familial mythmaking, aging, health, and financial precarity. Featuring contributions from an international team of scholars, ... Read more

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This is the first book‑length study of The Golden Girls, which ran for seven award‑winning seasons from 1985 to 1992 and produced two spin-offs.Through a cultural studies approach, this collection examines a wide range of topics, including race, sexuality, queerness, memory, familial mythmaking, aging, health, and financial precarity. Featuring contributions from an international team of scholars,
... Read more
Shirley Jackson and Domesticity

Beyond the Haunted House

Edited by Prof Jill E. Anderson, Prof Melanie R. Anderson ...

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narratives – those fictionalized in her novels and short stories as well as the ones captured in her memoirs – to explore the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling.Examining various areas of homemaking – child-rearing and ... Read more

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Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narratives – those fictionalized in her novels and short stories as well as the ones captured in her memoirs – to explore the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling.Examining various areas of homemaking – child-rearing and
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The Rabbit Hole

Weird Stories, #2

by Edward Ahern, Marie Anderson, Curtis Bausse, Édgar Avilés, Jon Black, Glenn Bruce, GD Deckard, Rhonda Eikamp, Brad Fiore, J.G. Follansbee, Boris Glikman, Steven Gepp, Geoff Habiger, Jill Hand, T.A. Henry, Jessica Joy, Simone Martel, Dennis Myers, David Rae, Alistair Rey, barry rosen, kim michelle ross, JJ Steinfeld, Mack Stone, Tom Wolosz, Stanley Webb, E.F.S. Byrne, Russell Hemmell ...

Series Book 2 - Weird Stories
This second volume of The Rabbit Hole is every bit as flumbiferous as the first. Which is just as Alice likes, because weirdness abounds and the warren never ends. Are you out for revenge? You'll need the right app. Or perhaps you've done something foolish? Never mind – it can be undone. Would you like to be in a video game? That too can be arranged - at a cost.All this and more in 29 stories to ... Read more

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This second volume of The Rabbit Hole is every bit as flumbiferous as the first. Which is just as Alice likes, because weirdness abounds and the warren never ends. Are you out for revenge? You'll need the right app. Or perhaps you've done something foolish? Never mind – it can be undone. Would you like to be in a video game? That too can be arranged - at a cost.All this and more in 29 stories to
... Read more

Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only

The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker

by Patrick McGilligan ...

Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex figures in the history of American entertainment.The son of freed slaves, Micheaux ... Read more

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Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, one of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex figures in the history of American entertainment.The son of freed slaves, Micheaux
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The Song of the Dodo

Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

by David Quammen ...

“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically ... Read more

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“Compulsively readable—a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism.” —Bill McKibben, AudubonA brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times. Through personal observation, scientific theory, and history, David Quammen examines the mysteries of evolution and extinction and radically
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The Postmortal

A Novel

by Drew Magary ...

**•Finalist for the Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke Awards •The gripping first novel by Drew Magary, author of The Hike and The Night the Lights Went Out"An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer. The Postmortal is . . . even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse." — Mark Frauenfelder, Boing BoingJohn Farrell is about to get "The Cure."... ... Read more

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**•Finalist for the Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke Awards •The gripping first novel by Drew Magary, author of The Hike and The Night the Lights Went Out"An exciting page turner. . . . Drew Magary is an excellent writer. The Postmortal is . . . even more terrifying than zombie apocalypse." — Mark Frauenfelder, Boing BoingJohn Farrell is about to get "The Cure."...
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