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  • The Health of the State

    Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890-1964

    by Jonathan Vincent ...
    In contrast to most studies of US war writing-those focused on trauma or memory-The Health of the State examines the way writing and thinking about war advanced new, forward-looking orientations toward national belonging, political consent, and the nature and character of state sovereignty across the long US modernism (1890-1964). To tell that story, the book examines three critical phases in ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

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  • The Long March

    How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

    by Roger Kimball ...
    In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Road to Monticello

    The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

    by Kevin J. Hayes ...
    Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

    Edited by Robert Faggen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and Wordsworth, he transformed pastoral and georgic poetry both in subject matter and form. Mastering the rhythms of ordinary speech, Frost made country ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Pynchon's Against the Day

    A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

    by Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise, Graham Benton, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Amy J. Elias, Kathryn Hume, Martin Kevorkian, Elisabeth McKetta, J Paul Narkunas, Krzysztof Piekarski, Terry Reilly, Justin St. Clair, Christopher K. Coffman, Brian McHale ...
    Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades—from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I—and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. The book’s eleven essays by ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Six by Mencken and Once by Nietzsche

    by H. L. Mencken, Frederick Nietzsche, Ronald J. Leach ...
    Series series Baltimore Authors
    This volume contains the complete text of seven books. Six of them, Damn! A Book Of Calumny, A Book Of Prefaces, A Book Of Burlesques, The American Credo, In Defense Of Women, and Europe After 8:15 were written by H. L. Mencken.

A seventh book, The Antichrist, was written by F. W. Nietzsche and translated by Mencken, who also wrote the forward to it.The book has been r... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ethnic American Literature

    An Encyclopedia for Students

    Edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson ...
    Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature.This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    Her Poetics of Loss

    by Susan McCabe ...
    Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Fashion and Fiction

    Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature

    by Lauren S. Cardon ...
    Series series Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
    During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization—shedding ethnic origins and signs of "otherness" to embrace a constructed American identity—was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of self-transformation has remained a central cultural narrative in American literary, political, and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Wrestling with the Left

    The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    by Barbara Foley ...
    In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the early years of the cold war. Foley scrutinized thousands of pages of drafts and notes for the novel, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Alan M. Levine, Daniel S. Malachuk ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned—and renounced—as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism

    by Bryce Traister ...
    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism reconsiders the standard critical view that women’s religious experiences were either silent consent or hostile response to mainstream Puritan institutions. In this groundbreaking new approach to American Puritanism, Bryce Traister asks how gendered understandings of authentic religious experience contributed to the development of seventeenth ... Read more

    $28.99 USD