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  • Home as Found

    by James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Carl Arch, Stephen Carl Arch ...
    Series series The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper
    A novel of manners set in the drawing rooms, ballrooms, and Wall Street offices in 1830s New York, dramatizing conflicts that we are still grappling with nearly two hundred years later.Within months of publishing Homeward Bound, James Fenimore Cooper continued that story in a second, stand-alone novel, Home as Found. One of the most important of his long career, Home as Found is a novel of manners ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper

    Edited by Stephen Carl Arch, Keat Murray ...
    Series Book 172 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Cooper was also deeply concerned with the America of his day and its history. His works embrace themes that have dominated American literature since: the frontier; the oppression of Native Americans by Europeans; questions of race, gender, and class; and ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

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  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    by Michelle H. Raheja ...
    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Paraliterary

    The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

    by Merve Emre ...
    "[Emre's] intellectual moves . . . are many, subtle, and a pleasure to follow. . . . None of her bad readers could have written this very good book." — Los Angeles Review of BooksLiterature departments tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's ... 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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  • Delphi Collected Works of Frances Trollope (Illustrated)

    by Frances Trollope, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 16 - Delphi Series Seven
    The early Victorian novelist, Frances Milton Trollope, mother of famous Anthony Trollope, wrote powerful social novels, including ‘The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw’ — an anti-slavery novel said to influence Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ — and the first industrial novel, ‘Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy’. This comprehensive eBook presents Trollope’s collected ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

  • Hollywood's Indian

    The Portrayal of the Native American in Film

    Edited by Peter C. Rollins, John E. O'Connor ...
    Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals , the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Love and Friendship

    by Jane Austen ...
    The new hit movie Love and Friendship starring Kate Beckinsale is based on two early works by Jane Austen, Lady Susan and Love and Freindship – both of which are included here. Fans of the movie will find the bulk of the plot has been taken from Lady Susan and the title from Love and Freindship.This new digital edition of Love and Friendship includes an image gallery. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Playing Indian

    by Philip J. Deloria ...
    Series series Yale Historical Publications Series
    The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts: just a few examples of white Americans' tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles**"A valuable contribution to Native American studies."—**Kirkus ReviewsThis provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Lady Susan : Short Epistolary Novel

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    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Keen Press Literature
    Lady Susan is the Short Epistolary Novel by Jane Austen. This story describes the schemes of the main character—the widowed Lady Susan—as she seeks a new husband for herself, and one for her daughter. Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues.Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship ... Read more

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  • Killing the Indian Maiden

    Images of Native American Women in Film

    by M. Elise Marubbio ...
    Killing the Indian Maiden examines the fascinating and often disturbing portrayal of Native American women in film. Through discussion of thirty-four Hollywood films from the silent period to the present, M. Elise Marubbio examines the sacrificial role of what she terms the "Celluloid Maiden"—a young Native woman who allies herself with a white male hero and dies as a result of that choice. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD