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  • The Action-Adventure Heroine

    Rediscovering an American Literary Character, 1697–1895

    by Sandra Wilson Smith ...
    Found in scores of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American narratives, the action-adventure heroine leaves the domestic space to pursue an independent adventure. This bold heroine tramps alone through the forests, demonstrates tremendous physical strength, braves dangers without hesitation, enters the public realm to earn money, and even kills her enemies when necessary. Despite her ... Read more

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

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  • Language as Liberation

    Reflections on the American Canon

    by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky ...
    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Love & Theft

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class

    by Eric Lott ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, ... Read more

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  • Validating Bachelorhood

    Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review

    by Scott Slawinski ...
    Series series Studies in American Popular History and Culture
    This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for validating bachelorhood as a viable alternative form of masculinity. ... Read more

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  • Promised Land

    Thirteen Books That Changed America

    by Jay Parini ...
    In this lively exploration of America’s intellectual heritage, acclaimed poet, novelist, and critic Jay Parini celebrates the life and times of thirteen books that helped shape the American psyche.Moving nimbly between the great watersheds in American letters—including Walden, Huckleberry Finn, The Souls of Black Folk, and On the Road—Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and ... Read more

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  • A History of American Literature

    by Richard Gray ...
    Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available todayCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • A Brief History of American Literature

    by Richard Gray ...
    A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day.Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literatureCovers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • The Color of Sex

    Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy

    by Mason Stokes, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915—literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film—and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Beyond Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Essays on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe

    by Sylvia Mayer, Martin T. Buinicki, Jennifer Cognard-Black, Maria I. Diedrich, Christiane E. Farnan, Faye Halpern, Joseph Helminski, Monika Mueller, William P. Mullaney, Astrid Recker, Sarah Robbins ...
    Ever since feminist scholarship began to reintroduce Harriet Beecher Stowe's writings to the American Literary canon in the 1970s, critical interest in her work has steadily increased. Rediscovery and ultimate canonization, however, have concentrated to a large extent on her major novelistic achievement, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Only in recent years have critics begun to focus more seriously on ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Truth's Ragged Edge

    The Rise of the American Novel

    by Philip F. Gura ...
    From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this book recovers many long-neglected but influential writers—such as the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Beneath the American Renaissance

    The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

    by David S. Reynolds ...
    The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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