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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 Ian Watt Publisher Comments Ian Watt's classic book on the early eighteenth-century novel. Accessible, straightforward, readable, The Rise of the Novel is as relevant and important today as when it was published.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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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by Michael Holroyd Synopsis Part detective story, part family saga, and part oblique voyage into self-discovery, this memoir of an extravagant heritage is drawn from the author's parents' recollections of their early lives.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $3.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by B G Maccarthy Synopsis Had B.G. MacCarthy's criticism been available, Showalter's A Literature of Their Own would have been a very different kind of book...In some ways, contemporary could be ten years ahead if we had started the climb from MacCarthy's groundwork. -Maggie Humm... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jenny Hartley Publisher Comments Reading groups are one of the success stories of the age. But is the Reading Group really such a new phenomenon? How do they choose and use books? What kinds of social protocols and rituals do they observe and what do they mean? Why are men less likely... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $2.10 (Used - Trade Paper) 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... (read more) Your price $34.95 (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 $2.75 (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 Rachel Cohen Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-346) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Stephan Publisher Comments Thousands of writers, artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals fled Germany in the 1930s. Many settled in the United States, hoping to find allies against Nazism and a safe refuge from Hitler’s Gestapo. But in America nearly all of the exiled authors&... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $8.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Nolden Publisher Comments A wide-ranging analysis of French Jewish authors born after the Shoah, this book traces the rich development of young Jewish writing from its beginning in the late 1970s, into the 1980s and 1990s, when it gained intense momentum.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Leon Edel Publisher Comments The Visitable Past: A Wartime Memoir is a fascinating account of the late Pulitzer-Prize-winning biographer's experience as a member of a psychological warfare unit during the liberation of France. Arriving in Normandy a month after D-Day, Edel was part... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by A Horno Delgado Publisher Comments Breaking Boundaries has as its primary intention just what the title implies: to reevaluate the paradigmatic and often divisive categories set forth by the literary establishment, whether those be cultural, linguistic, literary, academic, political, or... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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