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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 Charles Paine Publisher Comments The Resistant Writer integrates two lively sub-fields in rhetoric and composition: nineteenth-century composition history and contemporary issues about teaching cultural studies in composition. Examining the broad cultural anxieties that nineteenth... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Hartman Publisher Comments In colonial America, tales about the capture of English settlers by Native American war parties and the captives' subsequent suffering and privations were wildly popular among readers. Despite their importance in the development of American literature... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Griseld Ohannessian Publisher Comments An unconventional family idyll set on a gentleman's farm in Pennsylvania in the 1930s, Once: As It Was is a vibrant pastoral memoir that mixes unsentimentality with childhood innocence in a moving story that builds to a spine-tingling confrontation. "Of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francine du Plessix Gray Publisher Comments The much-acclaimed biographer's unflinchingly honest, wise, and forgiving portrait of her own famous parents: two wildly talented Russian migrs who fled wartime Paris to become one of New York's first and grandest power couples. Tatiana du Plessix, the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nick Davis Book News Annotation Davis (English, U. of Liverpool) finds that , , , and , each in its own way, confront the absolute limitation of reason in the face of a reality it cannot adequately represent to itself or recruit to its own purposes. He also compares their narrative... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Tyl Hitchcock Publisher Comments A confidante to many of Britain's Romantics, Mary Lamb stood at the center of a colorful literary circle. But when she killed her mother, Mary spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses. This narrative taps into creativity and madness, the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Limon Publisher Comments In Writing After War, John Limon develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, in order to make sense of American literary history in particular. Applying the work of war theorists Carl von Clausewitz and Elaine Scarry,... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Campbell Publisher Comments Beginning in New York in 1944, James Campbell finds the leading members of what was to become the Beat Generation in the shadows of madness and criminality. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs had each seen the insides of a mental... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shari Benstock Publisher Comments This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 $14.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald - and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Bilton Publisher Comments "A welcome addition to the often-bloated scholarship on literary postmodernism. . . . Bilton's command of the fiction and scholarship is impressive." — Choice "Bilton offers a critical but accessible introduction to postmodernism in America... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gillian Brown Publisher Comments "A fine book that is sure to provoke interesting debates. . . . Paying close attention to the implications of gender and domesticity for American notions of individualism, Brown draws upon new questions of method and theory to provide fresh readings of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas C Austenfeld Publisher Comments As expatriates in Germany and Austria in the 1930s, Kay Boyle, Katherine Anne Porter, Jean Stafford, and Lillian Hellman saw the rise of Nazi ideology firsthand. And while all four clearly realized -- as their work demonstrates -- that ethical behavior... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Niro Publisher Comments This dynamic study of the history of the idea of race provides a broad historical overview of the concept from its inception to the present. Brian Niro introduces key theorists and philosophers and a wide variety of literary and theoretical concepts. A... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Russell A. Berman Publisher Comments Berman has written a powerful example of the new literary history as well as a guide to the century that brought forth the modern German Novel. His book is important to students of German literature and of social and intellectual currents in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frits P Van Oostrom Publisher Comments "While being compared favorably to Johan Huizinga's "Waning of the Middle Ages, this is in fact a livelier, more convincing analysis of the late fourteenth century."--Johan P. Snapper, University of California... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Wendy Lesser Publisher Comments The Amateur is an inquiry into how we discover our passions and how they discover us. "I am very conscious," writes Wendy Lesser, one of our shrewdest cultural observers, "of having made choices in my life. You can't plan how the choices will turn out... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Shirley Geok Li Lim Publisher Comments The author's penetrating essays demonstrate that local speech, national language and national canons have much to tell us, not only about place and region, but about the nations of the imagination.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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