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  • Reading Children

    Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Patricia Crain ...
    Series series Material Texts
    What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Reading Children

    Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Patricia Crain ...
    Series series Material Texts
    What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Scars to Prove It

    The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction

    by Warren ...
    “When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate would place the total number of Civil War novels at well over one thousand, and this figure does ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Such a Rare Thing

    The Art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

    by Lindsay ...
    An important contribution to the field of American literary studies“Groundbreaking work in Anderson scholarship in particular and, on the wider scene, in American literary studies.”—Robert Dunne, author of A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson’s Early FictionThis critical study of Sherwood Anderson’s most famous and perhaps most widely taught work, Winesburg, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shelby Foote

    Novelist and Historian

    by Robert L., Jr. Phillips ...
    Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi Delta country. Later in his career he transformed modern historical prose by his keen sense of the novel. His artistic distance from the elements of regionalism that lie at the heart both of his ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Grand Chorus of Complaint

    Authors and the Business Ethics of American Publishing

    by Michael J. Everton ...
    An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Trauma Narratives and Herstory

    Edited by S. Andermahr, S. Pellicer-Ortin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Literary Research and American Postmodernism

    Strategies and Sources

    by Emily Witsell ...
    Series series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
    Literary Research and American Postmodernism is a guide to scholarly research in the field of American postmodern literature, which this volume defines as the period between 1950 and 1990. This work aims to provide advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of literature with a comprehensive view of the print and online resources available in literature and related subject ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson

    Edited by Vivian R. Pollak ...
    Series series Historical Guides to American Authors
    One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large. Today her poetry is commonly anthologized and widely praised for its precision, its intensity, its depth and beauty. Dickinson's life and work, however, remain in important ways mysterious. This collection of essays, all of them previously unpublished, represent the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Akron Offering

    A Ladies' Literary Magazine, 1849–1850

    Edited by Jon Miller ...
    Series series Critical editions in early american literature
    "I am not ambitious, I seek only to please for the present moment, leaving the glory of posthumous fame, to the thousand little celebrities of the day," writes Lizzie, one of the regular contributors to The Akron Offering, a literary magazine of mid-nineteenth century Northeast Ohio. "I feel perfectly willing to let Posterity take care of itself," she continues. "If I succeed in beguiling one ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sympathetic Puritans

    Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England

    by Abram Van Engen ...
    Series series Religion in America
    Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears; the standard history traces a cult of ... Read more

    $100.79 USD