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V.L. Parrington: Through the Avenue of Art by H. Lark Hall Publisher Comments H. Lark Hall herein presents the first comprehensive biography of Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929). The recipient of the 1928 Pulitzer Prize in history for the first two volumes of his Main Currents in American Thought (3 vols., 1927, 1930... (read more) List Price $31.20 Your price: $27.69 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work by Susan Cheever Publisher Comments The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Interactive Fictions: Scenes of Storytelling in the Novel by Yael Halevi-Wise Publisher Comments Arguing that genre must play a role in our study of narrative fiction, this tour of the novel examines interactive storytelling scenes in which characters argue about how to tell a tale that meets their respective social and aesthetic expectations... (read more) List Price $86.95 Your price: $77.17 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Parting the Curtains: Interviews with Southern Writers by Dannye Romine Powell Publisher Comments Offers a look at the lives, work, and writing processes of such Southern writers as Maya Angelou, William Styron, and Doug... (read more) Your price: $2.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Visual Perversity: A Re-articulation of Maternal Instinct by Alina M. Luna Publisher Comments Through her reading of Euripides'Bacchae, Colridge's "Christabel," de Sade'sPhilosophy in the Bedroom, and Hitchcock'sPsycho author Alina M. Luna finds precedent for a destructive impulse lurking beneath the maternal gaze.... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price: $69.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America by María Carla Sánchez Publisher Comments Reforming the World considers the intricate relationship between social reform and spiritual elevation and the development of fiction in the antebellum United States. Arguing that novels of the era engaged with questions about the proper role of fiction... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book by Rory Litwin Publisher Comments Speaking of Information: The Library Juice Quotation Book is a compilation of quotations originally collected for the "Quotes of the Week" section of Library Juice, an e-zine published by Rory Litwin between 1998 and 2005 that dealt with philosophical... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $10.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Socrates and Subtitles: A Philosopher's Guide to 95 Thought-Provoking Movies from around the World by William G. Smith Publisher Comments "This reference book details 95 international movies with philosophical themes. Each film entry includes an introduction and thought-provoking questions for further discussion"--Provided by publisher.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $23.12 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Lost Saranac Interviews: Forgotten Conversations with Famous Writers by Joe David Bellamy Publisher Comments The Lost Saranac Interviews takes you back in time to one of the most stimulating and dynamic writing environments of the past thirty years. From 1974-1979, distinguished writers - including Joyce Carol Oates, Gail Godwin, Russell Banks, Ann Beattie, E.L.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $18.49 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Young People, New Theatre: A Practical Guide to an Intercultural Process by Noel Greig Publisher Comments Young People, New Theatre is a 'how-to' book; exploring and explaining the process of collaborating creatively with groups of young people across cultural divides. Organised into exercises, case studies and specific topics, this book plots a route for... (read more) Your price: $32.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market by David Dowling Publisher Comments In the 1840s and 1850s, as the market revolution swept the United States, the world of literature confronted for the first time the gaudy glare of commercial culture. Amid growing technological sophistication and growing artistic rejection of the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $26.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Plantation Airs: Racial Paternalism and the Transformations of Class in Southern Fiction, 1945-1971 by Brannon Costello Publisher Comments In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the oft-neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $31.06 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988: Beyond the Pyramid by Cynthia Steele Publisher Comments The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illuminating study, Cynthia Steele explores how the writers of the next two decades responded to the massacre... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $22.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Great Quotes for All Occasions by Elaine Bernstein Partnow Publisher Comments Offers quotations by actors, writers, comediennes, and political figures from all over the world, arranged by such subjects as love, marriage, work, health, and education.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860 by Theresa Strouth Gaul Publisher Comments This volume illustrates the significance of epistolarity as a literary phenomenon intricately interwoven with eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural developments. Rejecting the common categorization of letters as primarily private documents, this... (read more) List Price $99.95 Your price: $96.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change by Lauran R. Hartley Publisher Comments Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change is the first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature, which has burgeoned only in the last thirty years. This comprehensive collection brings together fourteen pioneering scholars in the... (read more) List Price $89.95 Your price: $83.20 Google eBooks - Electronic
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American Romanticism and the Marketplace by Michael T. Gilmore Publisher Comments "This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden."—Choice "[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, engagement with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $18.50 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The World through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury by Mary F. Corey Publisher Comments Today The New Yorker is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. A self-selected community of 250,000... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $13.27 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Zen of Wilderness and Walking: Wit, Wisdom and Inspiration by Katherine Wroth Publisher Comments A whimsical series that captures our emotional, spiritual, and humorous experiences in the great outdoors Our new Zen series explores the peace, tranquility, and sense of adventure that many people discover while pursuing outdoor activities. Each book... (read more) List Price $10.36 Your price: $9.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Family Saga in the South: Generations and Destinies by Robert O. Stephens Publisher Comments The first full realization of the family saga in the southern tradition, Stephens says, was George Washington Cable's The Grandissimes (1880). Stephens gives an extensive tour of twentieth-century authors who have used and further developed the southern... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $14.16 Google eBooks - Electronic
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