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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art)
by Merle L Bachman
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As a "post-assimilation" student of Jewish literature in America,
Bachman (English, Spalding U., Louisville, Kentucky) reads works by
authors who provide "thresholds" to understanding the immigrant
experience in the real/imagined "Yiddishland" of New... ( read more)
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Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s (Library of America #176)
by Edmund Wilson
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Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this... ( read more)
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