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by Barry Miles  Publisher Comments The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Tew Synopsis Studies of the "contemporary" British novel often turn out not to be very contemporary at all. All too often the discussion is dominated by the literature of the immediate post-war years. Philip Tew, in contrast, provides a genuinely fresh treatment of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judy Long Publisher Comments New Orleans is a melting pot that has been stirred by French, Spanish, African, and Caribbean influences. Once the fourth-largest city in America and largest city in the South, the Crescent City embodies many contradictions. It is at once a nationally... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Fisher Publisher Comments In this bold reinterpretation of American culture, Philip Fisher describes generational life as a series of renewed acts of immigration into a new world. Along with the actual flood of immigrants, technological change brings about an immigration of... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Monty Chisholm Publisher Comments A lively and insightful biography of the Victorian mathematician and philosopher William Clifford and his wife Lucy, the influential journalist and novelist. With a personal reflection on Clifford's contribution to mathematics by Sir Roger Penrose.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by R D Fulk Publisher Comments This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. <BR> Introduces Old English texts and considers their relation to Anglo... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Davison Synopsis This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Pool Publisher Comments It was the Best of Times, it was the Worst of Times, but most of all, as Daniel Pool reveals in this delightful new book, it was a time of surprisingly outrageous behavior. Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters plunks the reader down in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kennedy Fraser Publisher Comments A brilliant collection.... Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive. -- The New York Times Book Review Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this indispensable volume the sensitivity, freshness of... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Isobel Hurst Publisher Comments Isobel Hurst examines the role of women writers in the Victorian reception of ancient Greece and Rome, showing that they had a greater imaginative engagement with classical literature than has previously been acknowledged. The restrictions which applied... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $67.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Payne Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [1130]-1134) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $25.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Laskin Publisher Comments Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the legendary group of New York intellectuals who were the Partisan Review writers. It is the women who steal... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sacvan Bercovitch Publisher Comments This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a particular ideological view nor a particular view of ideology... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas N. Baker Publisher Comments How did the stately, republican literary world of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper give way to the sensationalist, personality-saturated mass market society of the late nineteenth century? In answering this question, Sentiment and Celebrity... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Weber Publisher Comments Just as mass-market magazines and cheap books have played important roles in the creation of an American identity, those skilled craftsmen (and women) whose careers are the subjects of Ronald Weber's narrative profoundly influenced the outlook and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Laskin Publisher Comments From the Depression era of the 1930s through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, a generation of "public intellectuals" thrived in America. They were poets, novelists, critics, and commentators who were also friends, rivals, spouses, and lovers. Their... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Priya Joshi Publisher Comments Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, "In Another Country" shows how readers of the English novel transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. She further demonstrates how Indian novelists writing in English, from Krupa... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Hoyles Publisher Comments This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study explores the concept of totalitarianism in western thought from Rousseau to George Orwell, taking its examples from twentieth-century European literature.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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