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Chromographia: American Literature and the Modernization of Color by Nicholas Gaskill
RRP: $42.88$34.20The 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: $50.68$40.64The 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: $46.78$37.42Through 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... -
Faulkner and the Native South by Jay Watson 9781496837929
RRP: $68.15$62.03From new insights into the Chickasaw sources and far-reaching implications of Faulkner's fictional place-name "Yoknapatawpha," to discussions that reveal the potential for indigenous land-, family-, and story-based methodologies to deepen understanding... -
Writing Against Time by Michael W. Clune
RRP: $46.78$37.42For 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... -
Dom Delillo's "The Underworld" by John Duvall 9780826452412
$35.28This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from 'The Remains... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction by Kathleen Diffley
RRP: $37.03$31.82The 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... -
100 American Crime Writers by S. Powell 9780230525375
$176.03100 American Crime Writers features discussion and analysis of the lives of crime writers and their key works, examining the developments in American crime writing from the Golden Age to hardboiled detective fiction. This study is essential to scholars... -
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Jean Armstrong 9780333398548 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08$3.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333398548Author Jean ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 135g -
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee by Jean Armstrong
RRP: $44.83$44.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333398548Author Jean ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 135g -
The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel by Sarah Wasserman
RRP: $44.83$39.02A 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... -
Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation by Ronna C Johnson 9780813530659
RRP: $68.25$43.64What do we know about the women who played an important role in creating the literature of the Beat Generation? Until recently, very little. Studies of the movement have effaced or excluded women writers, such as Elise Cowen, Joyce Johnson, Joanne Kyger,... -
Passing and the Fictions of Identity by Elaine K. Ginsberg
RRP: $48.73$39.02Passing 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... -
Annie Proulx's "The Shipping News" by Kate Webb 9780826452337
$35.28This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist, a... -
Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park by Naomi Mandel
RRP: $62.38$55.34This 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... -
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett Candlish Millier
RRP: $64.35$51.89Elizabeth 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... -
A Homemade World: American Modernist Writers by Hugh Kenner 9780714526096
RRP: $15.50$13.01Apologies 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: $74.69$5.71A 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 -
Outline of American Literature, An Paper by Peter B. High
$77.24A 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: $46.80$44.91The 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: $29.23$3.74This 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... -
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: A Norton Critical Edition by Stephen Crane 9780393950243
$36.47This 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... -
Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom by Luc Herman 9780820345956
$60.12When published in 1973, Gravity's Rainbow expanded our sense of what the novel could be. Pynchon's extensive references to modern science, history and culture challenged any reader, while his prose bent the rules for narrative art and his satirical... -
See It Feelingly: Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor by Ralph James Savarese
RRP: $54.58$44.64"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
$41.20This 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: $29.23$18.23Apologies 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 Passion of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr
RRP: $54.50$43.97"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... -
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America by Prof Michael Naas
RRP: $44.83$39.21Apocalyptic 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: $39.00$30.99How 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: $39.00$31.77From 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: $29.23$23.81Fifty 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: $21.43$15.48Apologies 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 -
Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative by Dr James Phelan 9780814254318
$61.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254318Author Dr James PhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 386g -
Thomas Pynchon by Simon Malpas 9780719099342
RRP: $38.98$34.34Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with... -
Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the Labors of American Poetry: Against Vocation by Peter Riley
RRP: $144.30$115.56In 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: $71.18$59.03David 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... -
Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism by Tim Redman 9780521110013
RRP: $74.08$61.05Ezra Pound's vocal support for Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism and his indictment, arrest, and imprisonment without trial have been a source of considerable puzzlement and embarrassment to an entire generation of poets and critics. In this book, Tim... -
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloon by Kurt Vonnegut
$31.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333818Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays by Michael J. Meyer 9780810877221
RRP: $124.80$108.65In 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: $54.60$53.41Thinking 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...