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Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural...

Author: Evan Brier
ISBN: 9781609389390
Format: Paperback
$224.40

Describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. This book...  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484959
Format: Paperback
$82.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781612499420
Format: Paperback
$77.00

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Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484966
Format: Hardback
$266.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781612499413
Format: Hardback
$169.40

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All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary...

Author: David Greven
ISBN: 9780813951027
Format: Paperback
$104.28

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All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary...

Author: David Greven
ISBN: 9780813951010
Format: Hardback
$290.40

"""This book analyzes how Shakespeare and Milton influenced classic American novelists in their depictions of gender,...  Read More >>

Robert Lowell In Context

Robert Lowell In Context

Author: Thomas Austenfeld (University of Fribourg) ,  Grzegorz Kość (University of Warsaw)
ISBN: 9781009465717
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various...  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Author: Markus Wierschem
ISBN: 9781611864823
Format: Paperback
$112.20

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The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity in Six American Novels

The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity...

Author: Jeff Morgan
ISBN: 9781476685656
Format: Paperback
$77.00

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Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Author: Charles D. Augello
ISBN: 9781476690704
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

James Fenimore Cooper: A Companion

Author: Signe O. Wegener
ISBN: 9781476682570
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion

Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited: A Reader's Companion...

Author: Ronald R. Gray
ISBN: 9781476689104
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in America, 1909-1964

Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in...

Author: David K. Vaughan
ISBN: 9781476688787
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. The book weaves together several...  Read More >>

Heroes with a Hundred Names: Mythology and Folklore in the Early Fiction of Robert Penn Warren

Heroes with a Hundred Names: Mythology and Folklore...

Author: Leverett Butts
ISBN: 9781476684598
Format: Paperback
$93.50

Author Robert Penn Warren’s fiction captures centuries worth of mythology and folklore from all across the globe,...  Read More >>

Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and Legacy

Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and Legacy

Author: Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 9781476687735
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction

The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary...

Author: Šárka Bubíková ,  Olga Roebuck
ISBN: 9781476687773
Format: Paperback
$93.50

Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are...  Read More >>

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William Powell and the Classic Film Series

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William...

Author: Philip Zwerling
ISBN: 9781476686578
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Offers a complete history of The Thin Man series, covering the brightest stars, tastiest scandals, headlines and...  Read More >>

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation

The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and...

Author: Dina Schiff Massachi
ISBN: 9781476687971
Format: Paperback
$84.70

When L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he created an American myth that has endured the test of time....  Read More >>

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

Author: Conrad Steel
ISBN: 9781609389314
Format: Paperback
$244.20

Shows how the history of poetry - with its particular formal affordances, and the particular hopes and fears we...  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

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