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Literary History


Literary History

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United States 18th and 19th Century
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by Francis Matthiessen
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This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman... (read more)

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General
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Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America's Favorite Desperate Housewives
Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America's Favorite Desperate Housewives
by Leah Wilson
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As the hit television show "Desperate Housewives" continues to seduce viewers with its outrageous humor, absorbing mysteries, and deliciously naughty images of suburbia, this collection of essays examines the program's appeal and why it has struck a... (read more)

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United States 20th Century
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American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917
American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917
by Robert M Crunden
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In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism... (read more)

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Asia
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #296: When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism
Harvard East Asian Monographs #296: When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism
by Gregory Golley
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As industrial and scientific developments in early-twentieth-century Japan transformed the meaning of “objective observation,” modern writers and poets struggled to capture what they had come to see as an evolving network of invisible... (read more)

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England 19th Century
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
by Phyllis Rose
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In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.... (read more)

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United States General
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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
by Elaine Showalter
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A Jury of Her Peers is an unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination — brimming with Elaine Showalter's characteristic wit and... (read more)

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Eastern Europe
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Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture
Through the Russian Prism: Essays on Literature and Culture
by Joseph Frank
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Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by now recognized as one of the major achievements of this century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in any language. During the course of this long-range effort, Frank has also... (read more)

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England 20th Century
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The British Book Trade: An Oral History
The British Book Trade: An Oral History
by Sue Bradley
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The book trade underwent a radical change at the end of the twentieth century that mirrored our cultural fascinations with electronic media and consumer culture, as old family firms were replaced by corporations, the ending of the Net Book Agreement gave... (read more)

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Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission
Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission
by Perri Giovannucci
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The colonial history of the discourse and practices of contemporary, modern development may be traced in the seminal texts of anti-colonial and postcolonial literature, such as works by Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as in the... (read more)

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The Ordeal of the African Writer
The Ordeal of the African Writer
by Charles R. Larson
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This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers--like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka--have become known outside of their own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles they face within Africa to get... (read more)

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