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Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation by Ato Quayson 9780231139038
RRP: €33.32€25.94Focusing primarily on the work of Samuel Beckett, Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, and J. M. Coetzee, Ato Quayson launches a thoroughly cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study of the representation of physical disability. Quayson suggests that the subliminal... -
Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods: Poetry in the Shadow of the Past by William Logan 9780231186148
RRP: €35.70€27.72In Dickinson's Nerves, Frost's Woods, William Logan, the noted and often controversial critic of contemporary poetry, returns to some of the greatest poems in English literature. He reveals what we may not have seen before and what his critical eye can... -
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War by Edmund Wilson 9780393312560
RRP: €41.65€33.56Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio
RRP: €27.36€22.51Wallace Stevens is a major American poet and a central figure in modernist studies and twentieth-century poetry. This Companion introduces students to his work. An international team of distinguished contributors presents a unified picture of Stevens'... -
The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology by Alan Heimert 9780674740662
RRP: €54.68€44.14The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from... -
Stalking Nabokov by Brian Boyd 9780231158572
RRP: €35.70€27.72At the age of twenty-one, Brian Boyd wrote a thesis on Vladimir Nabokov that the famous author called "brilliant." After gaining exclusive access to the writer's archives, he wrote a two-part, award-winning biography, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years... -
The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell
RRP: €38.02€30.43With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date... -
Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color by Nicholas Gaskill
RRP: €26.17€22.84The first major literary and cultural history of color in America, 1880-1930Chromographia tells the story of how color became modern and how literature, by engaging with modern color, became modernist. From the vivid pictures in children's books to the... -
Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster by Dennis Barone
RRP: €30.93€26.76The novels of Paul Auster-finely wrought, self-reflexive, filled with doublings, coincidences, and mysteries-have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first... -
Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties by Philip E. Wegner
RRP: €28.55€24.80Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fostered a... -
Writing Against Time by Michael W. Clune
RRP: €28.55€24.80For centuries, a central goal of art has been to make us see the world with new eyes. Thinkers from Edmund Burke to Elaine Scarry have understood this effort as the attempt to create new forms. But as anyone who has ever worn out a song by repeated... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction by Kathleen Diffley
RRP: €22.60€19.42The legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a central part of American life a century and a half later. Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and genres of... -
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Jean Armstrong 9780333398548 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€2.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel by Sarah Wasserman
RRP: €27.36€23.81A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature-and its relevance to the twenty-first century "Nothing ever really disappears from the internet" has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with... -
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park by Naomi Mandel
RRP: €38.07€33.77This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). Taking as its starting-point "American Psycho"'s seismic impact... -
Passing and the Fictions of Identity by Elaine K. Ginsberg
RRP: €29.74€25.79Passing refers to the process whereby a person of one race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation adopts the guise of another. Historically, this has often involved black slaves passing as white in order to gain their freedom. More generally, it has... -
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett Candlish Millier
RRP: €39.27€31.67Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century's finest and most beloved American poets has eluded readers for years. In this first full biography, Brett... -
The Cambridge Companion to John Updike by Stacey Olster
RRP: €39.26€33.83John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This... -
A Homemade World: American Modernist Writers by Hugh Kenner 9780714526096
RRP: €9.46€7.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714526096Author Hugh KennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
Outline of American Literature, An Paper by Peter B. High 9780582745025 [USED COPY]
RRP: €45.58€3.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Outline of American Literature, An Paper by Peter B. High
€47.14A survey of the English prose, poetry and drama of the United States from Colonial times to the1980s. Book InformationISBN 9780582745025Author Peter HighFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education Limited -
Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds by Cary Wolfe
RRP: €28.56€27.41The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us... -
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: A Norton Critical Edition by Stephen Crane 9780393950243 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€2.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: A Norton Critical Edition by Stephen Crane 9780393950243
€22.25This edition reprints the first published version, that of 1893. Misprints and errors have been corrected and are identified in "A Note on the Text." Footnotes indicate changes in wording Crane made for the 1896 edition and explain slang expressions... -
See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor by Ralph James Savarese
RRP: €33.31€29.20"We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face. Once a week, we spread the worded whale out in front of us; we dissect its head, eyes, and bones, careful not to hurt or kill it. The Professor and I are not whale hunters. We... -
The Blithedale Romance: A Norton Critical Edition by Nathaniel Hawthorne
€25.14This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations to help readers with Hawthorne's many... -
Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy 9780061924125
RRP: €17.84€11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061924125Author Mary McDonagh MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction by Gerry Canavan
RRP: €27.36€23.28The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience. Science fiction in America has long served to reflect the... -
The Passion of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr
RRP: €33.26€26.83"How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions!" complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870. "The American poet of passion is yet to come." He was, of course, unaware of the great... -
The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner by John T. Matthews
RRP: €27.36€23.28The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner offers contemporary readers a sample of innovative approaches to interpreting and appreciating William Faulkner, who continues to inspire passionate readership worldwide. The essays here address a variety... -
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America by Prof Michael Naas
RRP: €27.36€23.93Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of "last things" in Don DeLillo's works-things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and... -
The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Michelle Van Parys
RRP: €23.80€18.91How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American... -
Now Comes Good Sailing: Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau by Andrew Blauner
RRP: €23.80€19.39From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan * Kristen Case * George Howe Colt * Gerald Early * Paul Elie * Will Eno * Adam Gopnik * Lauren Groff * Celeste... -
The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and Me by Tom Santopietro
RRP: €17.84€14.53Fifty years and one billion dollars in gross box-office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The Godfather Effect skillfully analyzes the reasons behind... -
Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9781585426423
RRP: €13.08€10.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426423Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 23mm -
Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation by Peter Riley
RRP: €88.06€70.52In Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry, Peter Riley confronts our enduring and problematic investment in poetic vocation--a myth, he argues, that continues to inform how all our multifarious labors are understood, valued, and... -
Bellow's People: How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art by David Mikics 9780393246872
RRP: €43.44€36.02David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellow's work through the real-life relationships and friendships that Bellow transmuted into the genius of his art... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction by Stacey Olster
RRP: €23.79€20.38The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both... -
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays by Michael J. Meyer 9780810877221
RRP: €76.16€66.31In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published to critical acclaim. To commemorate To Kill a Mockingbird's 50th anniversary, Michael J. Meyer has assembled a collection of new essays that celebrate this enduring work of American literature. These essays... -
Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron 9780226092317
RRP: €33.32€32.59Thinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness-first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal...