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The Public Is Invited to Dance: Representation, the Body, and Dialogue in Gertrude Stein by Harriet Scott Chessman
£73.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804714846Author Harriet Scott ChessmanFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
Cather Studies, Volume 4: Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections by Cather Studies
£33.95Cather Studies 4 contains eighteen essays and elaborates a theme, "Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections." Such connections are central to Cather's art and artistry. She transported much from the Old World to the New, shaping her... -
Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass by Martin Klammer
RRP: £29.95£26.91Although the significance of Walt Whitman's thinking about African Americans and slavery to his poetry has been largely ignored by Whitman scholars, Martin Klammer argues that Leaves of Grass is a major text dealing with race relations in the... -
American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture by Ilana Nash
RRP: £20.99£19.02Teenage girls seem to have been discovered by American pop culture in the 1930s. From that time until the present day, they have appeared in books and films, comics and television, as the embodied fantasies and nightmares of youth, women, and sexual... -
Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace by Jeremy Rosen
RRP: £55.00£42.91How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and... -
Miranda July's Intermedial Art: The Creative Class Between Self-Help and Individualism by Antje Czudaj
RRP: £38.99£31.98This first in-depth study of Miranda July's work reveals some of its major motives and consequently provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class. Through an analysis of July's award-winning... -
Chuck Palahniuk: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke by Francisco Collado Rodriguez
£109.68Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists. This book is the first... -
Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers by Lukas Hoffmann
RRP: £38.99£31.98What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and -- unfortunately -- used to postmodernism's ironic,... -
Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Native Americans by Richard F Fleck
RRP: £10.99£9.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941821466Author Richard F FleckFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Westwinds PressPublisher Westwinds PressWeight(grams) 136g -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams
£24.14Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies, gay and lesbian studies, philosophy, and other fields... -
Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology by Daniel Punday
£54.91While some cultural critics are pronouncing the death of the novel, a whole generation of novelists have turned to other media with curiosity rather than fear. These novelists are not simply incorporating references to other media into their work for the... -
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020: Volume 4 by Betsy Huang
£89.29This volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and... -
Contemporary Drift: Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present by Sir Theodore Martin
£62.65What does it mean to call something "contemporary"? More than simply denoting what's new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we're living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an... -
A Poetics of Neurosis: Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts by Elena Furlanetto
RRP: £38.99£31.98While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, literary studies have in recent years adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis... -
American Mobilities: Geographies of Class, Race, and Gender in Us Culture by Julia Leyda
RRP: £44.99£36.74American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to... -
Aged Young Adults: Age Readings of Contemporary American Novels and Films by Anita Wohlmann
RRP: £37.99£31.18When Toula's father in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) 'feels old' in 'Cosmopolis', these young characters are attributed an age awareness that has received... -
Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction by Christopher N. Phillips
RRP: £62.50£55.27This epic calls to mind the famous works of ancient poets such as Homer, Virgil, and Ovid. These long, narrative poems, defined by valiant characters and heroic deeds, celebrate events of great importance in ancient times. In this thought-provoking... -
Philip Roth in Context by Maggie McKinley
£89.29Written by leading scholars on Philip Roth from around the globe, this book offers new insight into the various contexts that inform his body of work. It opens with an overview of Roth's life and literary influences, before turning to important critical,... -
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: A Reader's Companion by Jonathan S. Cullick
£23.60Robert Penn Warren is one of the best-known and most consequential Kentucky writers of the twentieth century and the only American writer to have won three Pulitzers in two different genres. All the King's Men, generally considered one of the finest... -
From Gift to Commodity by Hildegard Hoeller
£48.23In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange. Rooting her analysis in the period's fiction, she shows how... -
Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment by Mark Sandy
£107.63This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought.Book InformationISBN 9781474421485Author Mark SandyFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express by Brian Edwards
RRP: £25.99£22.49Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "the Arab." In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American... -
American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction by David Caplan
RRP: £8.99£8.14A leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engaging volume, David Caplan proposes a new theory of American poetry. With lively writing and... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Horror by Stephen Shapiro
RRP: £22.99£20.49Opening up the warm body of American Horror - through literature, film, TV, music, video games, and a host of other mediums - this book gathers the leading scholars in the field to dissect the gruesome histories and shocking forms of American life... -
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J King
RRP: £20.00£17.38Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing-or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick... -
American Gothic: An Anthology from Salem Witchcraft to H. P. Lovecraft by Charles L. Crow 9780470659793
RRP: £37.95£33.76American Gothic remains an enduringly fascinating genre, retaining its chilling hold on the imagination. This revised and expanded anthology brings together texts from the colonial era to the twentieth century including recently discovered material,... -
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece by Michael Gorra 9780871406705
RRP: £22.50£18.29Henry James (1843-1916) has had many biographers but Michael Gorra has taken an original approach to this great American progenitor of the modern novel, combining elements of biography, criticism and travelogue in re-creating the dramatic backstory of... -
The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction by Judith Fetterley
RRP: £21.99£19.19"Fetterley's questions are often so crucial, her observations repeatedly so acute, that they force us to ask how we avoided them in the past." -Women's Studies International Quarterly" . . . thoughtful, informed, and well written." -ChoiceBook... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists by Timothy Parrish
RRP: £26.99£22.80This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics... -
The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973 by Mark Greif 9780691146393
RRP: £35.00£28.14In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the... -
Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human by Onno Oerlemans 9780231159548
RRP: £55.00£42.91Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton 9780521147958
RRP: £22.99£19.56The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern... -
Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing by Deborah Levy 9781635572247
RRP: £16.99£11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635572247Author Deborah LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher Bloomsbury PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)... -
Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction by Dorrit Claire Cohn
RRP: £45.00£35.32This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture by Christopher Bigsby
RRP: £33.99£29.66The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social,... -
Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling by Erica Fretwell
RRP: £24.99£21.67In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how... -
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 9780393924664
RRP: £13.99£12.65This Norton Critical Edition brings to life-through Cather's words, and through the words and images of others-the uniquely American frontier experience. In inscribing a copy of O Pioneers! for a childhood friend, Cather wrote, "In this one I hit... -
Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr. by J. W. Ernst 9780823215591
RRP: £45.00£39.18Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were... -
FML: And You Thought You'd Had a Bad Day... by Didier Guedj 9781843178828 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780674267206
RRP: £32.95£26.64Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays-the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)-are...