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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814251393Author Sharon Rose WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 295g

The narrator (the answer to the question “who speaks in the text?”) is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in narrative theory. Do all fictional narratives have a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814210642Author Phyllis Sternberg PerrakisFormat HardbackPage Count 321Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Driven by intensive industrialisation and urbanisation, the nineteenth century saw radical transformations in every facet of life in the United States. Immigrants and rural Americans poured into the nation’s cities, often ahead of or without their...

The American boardinghouse once provided basic domestic shelter and constituted a uniquely modern world view for the first true generation of U.S. city-dwellers. Thomas Butler Gunn's classic 1857 account of urban habitation, The Physiology of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802063335Author B. DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1858-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up in Philadelphia, where his father was an assayer in the U.S. Mint; was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945636564Author Laura WintersFormat HardbackPage Count 127Imprint Susquehanna University PressPublisher Associated University Presses

Broadway, the main street that runs through Robert Pinsky's hometown of Long Branch, New Jersey, was once like thousands of other main streets in small towns across the country. But for Pinsky, one of America's most admired poets and its former Poet...

A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition, A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events that have shaped our cultural heritage. Kevin J. Hayes charts this history through a series of approachable...

Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document America's past and present in the midst of the Great Depression. The English poet W. H. Auden referred to...

Established in 1935, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent around 6,500 unemployed historians, teachers, writers, and librarians out to document America's past and present in the midst of the Great Depression. The English poet W. H. Auden referred to...

The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America's most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award-winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472055197Author Joseph B. EntinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

This study of late nineteenth-century American literature begins with a simple question: how did the rise of an urban society affect the ways in which the nation's writers represented the countryside? In offering an answer, Rural Fictions, Urban...

The Great American Songbooks shows how popular music shapes and permeates a host of modernism's hallmark texts. Austin Graham begins his study of 20th-century texts with a discussion of American popular music and literature in the 19th century. He posits...

In this book, Susan Edmunds explores he relationship between modernist domestic fiction and the rise of the U.S. welfare state. This relationship, which began in the Progressive era, emerged as maternalist reformers developed an inverted discourse of...

The conventional view of the family in the nineteenth-century novel holds that it venerated the traditional domestic unit as a model of national belonging. Contesting this interpretation, American Blood argues that many authors of the period challenged...

Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned...

Modernism has long been understood as a radical repudiation of the past. Reading against the narrative of modernism-as-break, Pragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernist thought that grows out of pragmatist philosophy and is...

The role of chance changed in the nineteenth century, and American literature changed with it. Long dismissed as a nominal concept, chance was increasingly treated as a natural force to be managed but never mastered. New theories of chance sparked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932195132Author Bibi WeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Tupelo Press, IncorporatedPublisher Tupelo Press, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 254g

Mark Twain on the Move gathers the very best passages from all five of Mark Twain's travel narratives: ""The Innocents Abroad"" (1869), ""Roughing It"" (1872), ""A Tramp Abroad"" (1880), ""Life on the Mississippi"" (1883), and ""Following the Equator""...

This is a critical introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820457376Author Devon BoanFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820440835Author Gil Haroian-GuerinFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 160g

Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she remains a unique and idiosyncratic figure, unassimilated by models of...

Mark Twain explores the darker side of life in these lesser-known later writings dealing with personal tragedies, nightmarish world events, and a doubtful cosmic order. He views his own situation as that of a ship trapped in a fearsome Bermuda...

The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as...

Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction in the three decades following 1945. Two particular...

In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052010335Author Marc MaufortFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which...

This study is concerned with the function of the mirror metaphor in texts by three modern African-American authors. Wright's photo-text 12 Million Black Voices, Baldwin's early essays, and Ellison's novel Invisible Man go back to the time before the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787079151Author Francesca GollFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Peter Lang LtdPublisher Peter Lang LtdWeight(grams) 390g

Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the...

During Walt Whitman's decade in Washington, DC, 1863-1873, he labored intensely, at times seeming to have three lives at once. He wrote the most distinguished journalism of his career; came into his own as a writer of letters; crafted memorable Civil War...

This is a courageous book. In a series of essays, the author takes one the major literary, critical and artistic figures who have shaped the contemporary literature of Canada. What emerges is provocative, at times outrageous, but most of all thoughtful...

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture critically reassesses the significance of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal to the transatlantic literary culture of the nineteenth century. Long appreciated...

As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. ""Heartless Immensity"" tells the story of how...