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Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
by Noel Riley Fitch

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The story of Sylvia Beach's love for Shakespeare and Company supplies the lifeblood of this book. 'An absorbing book, backed by an impressive amount of research. Working from the rich collection of Sylvia Beach's papers, Noel Fitch has written an... (read more)

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British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age, 1914-1984 British Literary Magazines: The Modern Age, 1914-1984
by Alvin Sullivan

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Edited by a specialist in contemporary British literature, the 108 signed critiques are primarily by academicians from the US and other parts of the English-speaking world. Each of the profiles includes information such as location sources, reprint... (read more)

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Fringe Voices: Texts by and about Minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany Fringe Voices: Texts by and about Minorities in the Federal Republic of Germany
by Antje Harnisch

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Since German unification, there have been many reports about xenophobia in Germany and the government has attempted to stem the new wave of racism. In contrast, the voices of the victims of racism -- refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants -- are seldom... (read more)

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In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980 In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980
by Victor H Brombert

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In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by the consequences of their actions. Through penetrating readings of key works of modern... (read more)

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Conscience of the Nation: Writers, State, and Society in Modern Egypt Conscience of the Nation: Writers, State, and Society in Modern Egypt
by Richard Jacquemond

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Egyptian writers divided between social commitment and individual... (read more)

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Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by Katharine Cap Smith

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An essential work demonstrating the importance of children's literature to the writers of the Harlem Renaissance... (read more)

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The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848 The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848
by Virgil Nemoianu

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In this sequel to his Harry Levin Prize-winning The Taming of Romanticism, Virgil Nemoianu expands his survey of the intellectual and literary movement that swept Europe in the early and middle decades of the nine-teenth century to include rarely studied... (read more)

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Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990 (French Literature Series) Fables of the Novel: French Fiction Since 1990 (French Literature Series)
by Warren Motte

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Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France.... (read more)

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Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing
by Ved Mehta

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In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Mr. Mehta gives us the closest, most careful, and most refined description that has yet been written of Shawn's editorship of the magazine. He portrays in detail the peculiar, nurturing atmosphere at the New Yorker.... (read more)

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Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts - American Contexts Renaissance Women Writers: French Texts - American Contexts
by Anne R. Larsen

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A dozen essays analyze the formation of women's literary identity by examining the work of eight of the most read women writers of early modern France. From a feminist perspective, they consider such themes as defining a female reading community... (read more)

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The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (Victorian Literature and Culture) The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (Victorian Literature and Culture)
by Talia Schaffer

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Most critics of aestheticism focus on the Yellow Book, the glossy Victorian journal with the shocking yellow cover that counted among its contributors Aubrey Beardsley and Max Beerbohm. But one of the best-known aesthetes, Oscar Wilde, launched his own... (read more)

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Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric Voices in the Wilderness: Public Discourse and the Paradox of Puritan Rhetoric
by Patr Roberts Miller

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What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America's dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical... (read more)

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Gender & Citizenship the Dialectics Of Gender & Citizenship the Dialectics Of
by Claudia Moscovici

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Claudia Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand,... (read more)

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Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950
by Claire Culleton

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"Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950" brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. From Harlem to... (read more)

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A New History of German Literature: , (Harvard University Press Reference Library) A New History of German Literature: , (Harvard University Press Reference Library)
by David E Wellbery

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Gü nter Grass, Edward Dimendberg on Holocaust memorials.... (read more)

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Bloomsbury Recalled Bloomsbury Recalled
by Quentin Bell

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In Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell has written an extraordinary memoir of the circle of intellectuals in London early in this century know as the Bloomsbury group. Bell offers remarkable judgments about and recollections of each of the notable people... (read more)

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Victorians a Major Authors Anthology Victorians a Major Authors Anthology
by Christopher Nassaar

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As literary critics have redefined Oscar Wilde as one of the last great Victorians, anthologized works following the major authors' approach cannot ignore his many works, nor those of his mentor, Walter Pater. Christopher Nassaar has compiled a... (read more)

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Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response
by James L Machor

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"Presents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of women's and African American writing... Readers in History... (read more)

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Running the Rapids: A Writer's Life Running the Rapids: A Writer's Life
by Kildare Dobbs

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Poet, travel writer, teacher, quiz-show presenter, broadcaster, adventurer - Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, met many people, and been many places. His life journey, marked by frequent diversions and detours, reflects the exuberant eclecticism of... (read more)

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The Writer's Experience: Essays on Self and Circumstance in the Hispanic Literatures The Writer's Experience: Essays on Self and Circumstance in the Hispanic Literatures
by Peter Earle

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These essays reflect a view admittedly skeptical of the movements,... (read more)

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