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Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature
by Leslie W Lewis  Publisher Comments Uncovering powerful and threatening secrets in African American...
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The American Writer: Shaping a Nation's Mind
by Jack Cady Publisher Comments Having considered the subject for more than sixty years, Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The American Writer is both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested...
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Novel History: Ther)
by Mark C Carnes Publisher Comments Historical fiction is a contradiction in terms. History is what happened; fiction, what did not. Yet great novelists have often disregarded this logical difficulty, taking up the tools of the historian to explore the shadowy recesses of the past. Their...
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Images of Germany in American Literature
by Wald Zacharasiewicz Publisher Comments Although German Americans number almost 43 million and are the largest ethnic group in the United States, scholars of American literature have paid little attention to this influential and ethnically diverse cultural group. In a work of unparalleled...
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Encyclopedia of American Literature 4 Volumes
by Elizabeth Leverton Synopsis A thoroughly expanded and revised edition of the award-winning set, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Revised Edition is an extensive reference work that spans the entire scope of American literature, from the colonial period to the present. Now in...
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Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fact and Fiction from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain
by David Sachsman Publisher Comments Memory and Myth is an interdisciplinary study of the Civil War and its enduring impact on American writers and filmmakers. Its twenty-five chapters are all concerned, in one way or another, with creative responses to the Civil War, and the ways in which...
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Hyphenated Histories: Articulations of Central European Bildung and Slavic Studies in the Contemporary Academy
by Andrew Colin Gow Synopsis The first section of the volume is general and tries to make sense of current institutional realities; the second section consists of case studies that overcome the disciplinary divisions of Slavic Studies by adding together various hyphenated approaches:...
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Writers of the American South
by Hugh Howard Publisher Comments Flannery O'Connor, Peter Taylor, Thomas Wolfe. The South has long revered its literary luminaries. Their talent for evoking a sense of place in their settings and in their characters reflects an elemental connection to their home soil. William Faulkner...
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Back Then: Two Literary Lives in 1950s New York
by Anne Bernays Publisher Comments Chapter OneWhere we lived in Manhattan had a lot to do with how my father, the person who made the hefty decisions in our family, chose to be perceived by the world beyond his front door. And this, in turn, had a lot to do with his profound and nervous...
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Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction
by Anthony Hutchison Publisher Comments In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is antipolitical and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by...
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Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction
by David Fine Publisher Comments In this first literary history of Los Angeles in more than fifty years, David Fine traces the history of the place through the work of the authors who have defined it in our imaginations....
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There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry
by Roger Lundin Publisher Comments In recent American life, religion has once again asserted its place as a motivating factor. Yet the place of religion in literary studies continues to take a back seat to trendier academic causes. There Before Us begins to remedy this deficiency by...
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Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, & Art)
by Merle L Bachman Book News Annotation 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...
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A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
by Rachel Cohen Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index....
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The American Writer: Shaping a Nation's Mind
by Jack Cady Publisher Comments Having considered the subject for more than sixty years, Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The American Writer is both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested...
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Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
by Michael Moon Publisher Comments "This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class...
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Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910
by Claudia Stokes Publisher Comments In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills"--from...
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The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion Since World War II
by David A. Hollinger Publisher Comments This volume of essays, commissioned by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, explores the interaction between the humanities and demographic changes in the university, including the link between external changes and the rise of new academic...
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Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape
by Frederick Turner Publisher Comments Award-winning author Frederick Turner examines the lives and careers of nine American authors, the locales they made famous, and the ways in which landscape played a role in the creation of their finest works. It is both a testament to the creative...
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Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
by Catherine Od Kaplan Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside...
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