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by Daniel Pool  Publisher Comments For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's... (read more)  List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Nicholas Roe Publisher Comments This uniquely comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to Romantic literature presents forty-six newly commissioned chapters from an international team of contributors, both long-established scholars and cutting-edge academics. It combines an introduction to... (read more) List Price $53.75 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R Todd Felton Publisher Comments The New England towns and villages that inspired the major figures of the Transcendentalism movement are presented by region in this travel guide that devotes a chapter to each town or village famous for its relationship to one or more of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Shattuck Publisher Comments Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sylvia Beach Publisher Comments Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gershon Shaked Synopsis This matchless history traces the development of a literature from its European roots into the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor a spoken language, to its flowering on Israeli soil through the 1990s. The product of over 20 years of research, it is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sara Suleri Publisher Comments Tracing a genealogy of colonial discourse, Suleri focuses on paradigmatic moments in the multiple stories generated by the British colonization of the Indian subcontinent. Both the literature of imperialism and its postcolonial aftermath emerge here as a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francesca Sawaya Synopsis "Sawaya's treatment of the dynamic relationship between discourses of domesticity and professionalism during the early decades of the twentieth century makes a strong contribution to debates about gender, race, and work."--Alice Gambrell, University of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles R. Larson Publisher Comments 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) List Price $34.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Moon Publisher Comments Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Benfey Publisher Comments A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought. At the close of the Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Denis Hollier Publisher Comments This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume guide to the French literary tradition available in English. Conceived for the general reader, this volume presents French literature... (read more) Your price $34.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anatole Broyard 
Publisher Comments "Nineteen forty-six was a good time — perhaps the best time — in the twentieth century. The war was over and there was a terrific sense of coming back, of repossessing life. Rents were cheap, restaurants were cheap, and it seemed to me that... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barry Miles Publisher Comments Called a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s . . . [and] fun reading by Library Journal, The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Eldridg Miller Publisher Comments With the rise of women's suffrage, challenges to marriage and divorce laws, and expanding opportunities for education and employment for women, the early years of the twentieth century were a time of social revolution. Examining British novels written in... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments From the journals of one of our most distinguished critics comes an extraordinary panorama of the intellectual, social and political culture of the last half century. Written with the vividness and power of first-rate fiction, it brings to life the great... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendy Larson Publisher Comments A study of women writers in twentieth-century China.... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Erich Heller Publisher Comments Since first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, The condition it... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Yglesias Synopsis Rafe Sabas is the ideal corporate man. He is on a first name basis with the president of his company and likes to think about a deal while talking about something else. "I am not good at thinking alone," he quips, "corporate life ruins you for that... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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