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  • Fashion Nation

    Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

    by Sandra Tomc ...
    Fashion Nation argues that popular images of the United States as a place of glitter and lights, of gaudy costumes and dizzying visual surfaces—usually understood as features of technomodernity—were in fact brewed in the rich, strange world of early nineteenth-century British and European folk nationalism when nations were compelled to offer visual manifestations of their allegedly true ancestral ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Poe and Women

    Recognition and Revision

    by Amy Branam Armiento, Travis Montgomery, Melanie R. Anderson, Adam C. Bradford, Kevin Knott, John Edward Martin, Clara Petino, Alexandra Reuber, Sandra Tomc0 ...
    Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe notoriously identified “the death . . . of a beautiful woman” as “the most poetical topic in the world.” Despite this cringeworthy claim, it is widely known that Poe drew creative inspiration from female authors and that women figure prominently among the artists and critics fascinated by the writer’s creative legacy. Filling a major gap in scholarship on Poe, this volume ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Industry and the Creative Mind

    The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

    by Sandra Tomc ...
    Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord Byron and brought to life for American audiences by the gloomy person of Edgar Allan Poe, was a figure of rebellion against ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays

    by Michel de Montaigne ...
    Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'essays', inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience. He ... 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

  • Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Philip Roth ...
    On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening’s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Last Frontier: A New Edition with a Special Introduction by the Author

    by Howard Fast ...
    The story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

    John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo

    by Catherine Morley ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Toni Morrison

    Writing the Moral Imagination

    by Valerie Smith ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
    This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate’s aesthetic practice and her political vision, through an analysis of the key texts as well as her lesser-studied works, books for children, and most recent novels.Offers provocative new insights and a refreshingly original contribution to the scholarship of one of the most important contemporary American ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Ledgers of History

    William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary

    by Sally Wolff ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Emory University professor Sally Wolff has carried on a fifty-year tradition of leading students on expeditions to "Faulkner country" in and around Oxford, Mississippi. Not long ago, she decided to invite alumni on one of these field trips. One response to the invitation surprised her: "I can't go on the trip. But I knew William Faulkner." They were the words of Dr. Edgar Wiggin Francisco III, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Modernism's Print Cultures

    by Professor Faye Hammill, Professor Mark Hussey ...
    Series series New Modernisms
    The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and scholars alike. Surveying the key critical work of recent decades, the book explores such topics as:- Periodical publishing – from 'little ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Great Plains Literature

    by Linda Ray Pratt ...
    Series series Discover the Great Plains
    Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the land, and the tragic losses and successes of settlement that are still shaping our modern world of environmental threat, ethnic and racial hostilities, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD