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by Eugene Walter  
Publisher Comments This sumptuous oral biography of Eugene Walter, as told to Katherine Clark, traces his unique, happy-go-lucky life as a writer, actor, translator, cryptographer, costume designer, chef, expatriot, and Southerner. Milking the Moon, already a Washington... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Sally Ledger Publisher Comments This book considers the ways in which current conflicts of ???race???, class, and gender have their roots in the 1890s.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eldred Durosi Jones Publisher Comments An analysis of the literary criticism of modern African Literature.... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Williams Publisher Comments Hungry Heart reexamines the early literary career of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), best remembered as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Combining biographical narrative with textual analysis, Gary Williams reconstructs Howe's emergence as a... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William J. Scheick Publisher Comments Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James Simpson Publisher Comments The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Todd Curtis Kontje Publisher Comments Todd Kontje's German Orientalisms offers a fresh examination of the role of the East in the "Kontje has pulled off the amazing feat of a grand narrative: from the epic literature of the Middle Ages to very recent texts on the emerging multicultural... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hilton Obenzinger Publisher Comments In the nineteenth century, American tourists, scholars, evangelists, writers, and artists flocked to Palestine as part of a "Holy Land mania." Many saw America as a New Israel, a modern nation chosen to do God's work on Earth, and produced a rich variety... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sam Gill Publisher Comments Storytracking is a work of theory and application. It is both a study of history and culture and the academic issues accompanying the interpretation and observation of other peoples. Sam Gill writes about Central Australia, but, more importantly, he... (read more) List Price $111.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicola Royan Synopsis A collection of papers offering new perspectives on Scottish early-modern literature that invite the revision and expansion of previous selections of critical choices. They introduce less familiar writers and texts, investigating contexts and... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charlotte Daniels Publisher Comments Drawing on Habermas and Freud as well as historians of the family, Subverting the Family Romance discusses Francoise de Graffigny, Isabelle de Charriere, and George Sand at three key historical moments in the parallel development of the novel genre and... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Renee Winegarten Publisher Comments Renee Winegarten probes intriguingly subtle equivocations revealed by six highly gifted fascinating French women writers who were deeply involved in the political life of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ostensibly denied any public political... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $3.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda K Hughes Publisher Comments Gaskell's (1810-65) embodiment of the conventional Victorian loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer has led 20th- century literary critics to discount her, but Hughes (literature, Texas Christian U.) and Lund (English, Longwood College) point out... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joan Acocella Publisher Comments A distinguished cultural critic presents an insightful compilation of thirty-one essays in which she reflects on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Parker, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Susan... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Evelyn B Tribble Book News Annotation Examines commentary written in the margins of the text to show how the pages of the first printed books became the arena for struggled among authors, readers, and cultural authorities. Focuses on four controversies: the printed English Bible, two... (read more) Your price $31.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dan H Laurence Publisher Comments Bernard Shaw, who made in reputation as a playwright in London, and Augusta Gregory, founder-director of the Abbey Theatre in Dublins, are generally considered as belonging to different theatrical traditions. But in 1909, when the Abbey produced The... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $11.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J Mickelson-gaughan Book News Annotation The first of a three-volume set designed to be used in a college-level humanities or European history course. Contains extracts and short full-length pieces from primary sources selected for their inherent historical importance, their ability to... (read more) List Price $57.50 Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Keen Publisher Comments An original study of debates in the 1790s about the nature and social role of literature.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $74.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sorin Parvu Book News Annotation Discusses 19 of the most important Romanian novels published from the middle of the 19th century up to World War II, all of which will eventually appear in English translation as part of the Classics of Romanian Literature series. Highlights the... (read more) Your price $9.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Moyra Haslett Publisher Comments This book defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to ideas of the public sphere... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $29.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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