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  • 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

    $32.39 USD

  • Refocusing Chaplin

    A Screen Icon through Critical Lenses

    Edited by James E. Caron, Lawrence Howe, Benjamin Click ...
    Widely recognized in his character of the Tramp, Charlie Chaplin transcended the role of actor to become screenwriter, director, composer, producer, and finally studio head. The subject of numerous biographical studies, Chaplin has been examined as both myth and man, but these treatments fail to adequately address the often-overlooked complexity of his filmmaking.Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
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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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  • 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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  • Making Something Happen

    American Political Poetry between the World Wars

    by Michael Thurston ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    “Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W. H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s — the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth

    by Brett Ashley Kaplan ...
    Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Welcome to the Suck

    Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq

    by Stacey Peebles ...
    Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In Welcome to the Suck, Stacey Peebles examines the growing body of contemporary war stories in prose, poetry, and film that speak to the American soldier's experience in the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War.Stories about war always encompass ideas about ... Read more

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  • Thrill of the Chaste

    The Allure of Amish Romance Novels

    by Valerie Weaver-Zercher ...
    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    Take a peek beneath the bonnet.Browse the inspirational fiction section of your local bookstore, and you will likely find cover after cover depicting virtuous young women cloaked in modest dresses and wearing a pensive or playful expression. They hover innocently above sun-drenched pastures or rustic country lanes, often with a horse-drawn buggy in the background—or the occasional brawny stranger. ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Mark Twain

    Edited by Peter Messent, Louis J. Budd ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent yearsBrings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to ... Read more

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  • John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries

    Edited by Stephen K. George, Barbara A. Heavilin ...
    In March of 2006, scholars from around the world gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho for a conference devoted to not only John Steinbeck but also to the authors whose work influenced, informs, or illuminates his writings. This volume represents the many unique papers delivered at that conference by scholars from around the world. This collection includes studies on authors who influenced Steinbeck's ... Read more

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