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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as “New World” literature, examining it in relation to its...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
The American West is a complex region that has inspired generations of writers and artists. Often portrayed as a quintessential landscape that symbolizes promise and progress for a developing nation, the American West is also a diverse space that has experienced conflicting and competing hopes and...
Scare Tactics
Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award–winning film...
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that published selections from foreign writings--especially...
America's Asia
Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2009
What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a...
American Georgics
Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with...
Literature, Intertextuality, and the American Revolution
From Common Sense to Rip Van Winkle
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Dealing with Thomas Paine's Common Sense (1776), John Trumbull's M'Fingal (1776-82), Philip Freneau's "The British-Prison Ship" (1781), J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782), and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819-20), Steven Blakemore breaks new ground...
Against Self-Reliance
The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, writers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A History of American Crime Fiction places crime fiction within a context of aesthetic practices and experiments, intellectual concerns, and historical debates generally reserved for canonical literary history. Toward that end, the book is divided into sections that reflect the periods that commonly...
The Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters
The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser,...
American Trajectories
Authors and Readings, 1790–1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 1994
In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and differences. He also puts forth that there are recognizable patterns and continuities marking off what...
Realism for the Masses
Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic...