American category: 24906 books
Shifting Gears
Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to...
by Elizabeth Long
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
This title, originally published in 1985, examines conceptions of success and the good life expressed in bestselling novels – ranging from historical sagas and spy thrillers to more serious works by Updike, Bellows, Steinbeck and Mailer – published from 1945 to 1975. Using these popular books...
by John Wrighton
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
From the Objectivists to e-poetry, this thoughtful and innovative book explores the dynamic relationship between the ethical imperative and poetic practice, revitalizing the study of the most prominent post-war American poets in a fresh, provocative way. Contributing to the "turn to ethics"...
Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sounding Real by Cristina L. Ruotolo examines landmark changes in American musical...
Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature
The Complex Trauma of the Wound and the Voiceless
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties,...
First Americans
U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
A forgotten history that explores how army veterans returning to reservation life after World War I transformed Native American identity
Drawing from archival sources and oral histories, Thomas Grillot demonstrates how the relationship between Native American tribes and the United States was...
Everyday Reading
Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry...
The Original Blues
The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Blues Book of the Year —Living Blues
Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence
Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018)
With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on...
Return Narratives
Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of the authors' return, either metaphorical or literal to the country of origin and its culture, Return...
Transnational Na(rra)tion
Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body" as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself. This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely insofar as both citizen/subject...
Documenting the Black Experience
Essays on African American History, Culture and Identity in Nonfiction Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
History taught at the elementary, middle, high school and even college levels often excludes significant events from African American history, such as the murder of Emmett Till or the murder of four black girls by the Ku Klux Klan in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham. Such...
Three Traveling Women Writers
Cross-Cultural Perspectives of Brazil, Patagonia, and the U.S from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book presents an alternative framework for reading nineteenth century women’s travel narratives by challenging the traditional paradigms which often limit women’s space in print culture. For the first time, through a comparative lens, a Latin American woman’s travel narrative is analyzed...
American Terror
The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors—Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe,...
Rereading the Spanish American Essay
Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
"The essays are clearly chosen to be different in style and content from the 'malestream' canon, and the book as a whole is full of old friends and welcome new surprises.... It will be of interest not only to Latin Americanists, but also to the wider community interested in non-European gender studies...