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The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World by Ralph Bauer 9780813942568
$73.61The Age of the Discovery of the Americas was concurrent with the Age of Discovery in science. In The Alchemy of Conquest, Ralph Bauer explores the historical relationship between the two, focusing on the connections between religion and science in the... -
Sister's Choice: Tradition and Change in American Women's Writing. The Clarendon Lectures 1989 by Elaine Showalter 9780198123835
RRP: $219.38$207.66Are American women writers from different eras and different backgrounds connected by common threads in a coherent tradition? How have the relationships between women's rights, women's rites, and women's writing figured in the history of literature by... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston by Lovalerie King 9780521670951
RRP: $38.98$33.40Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural... -
Dave Borry's Bad Habits by Dave Borry 9780805029642 [USED COPY]
RRP: $11.68$5.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805029642Author Dave BorryFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 310g -
Dave Borry's Bad Habits by Dave Borry 9780805029642
$28.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805029642Author Dave BorryFormat PaperbackPage Count 227Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 310g -
A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton by Carol J. Singley 9780195135916
RRP: $59.46$49.63Edith Wharton, arguably the most important American female novelist, stands at a particular historical crossroads between sentimental lady writer and modern professional author. Her ability to cope with this collision of Victorian and modern... -
Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair by Michael Dango
RRP: $58.48$47.07In this expansive and provocative new work, Michael Dango theorizes how aesthetic style manages crisis-and why taking crisis seriously means taking aesthetics seriously. Detoxing, filtering, bingeing, and ghosting: these are four actions that have come... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman by M. Jimmie Killingsworth 9780521670944
RRP: $46.78$38.98Walt Whitman is one of the most innovative and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Focusing on his masterpiece Leaves of Grass, this book provides a foundation for the study of Whitman as an experimental poet, a radical democrat, and a... -
Other "Ariel" by Lynda K. Bundtzen 9780750941235 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$4.15With great care and critical insight, Lynda K. Bundtzen examines Plath's original typescript for Ariel and compares it to the version that was published by her estranged husband, Ted Hughes.About the AuthorLynda K. Bundtzen is Herbert H. Lehman Professor... -
Stealing Through Time: On the Writings of Jack Finney by Jack Seabrook 9780786424375
RRP: $42.88$35.04The writings of twentieth-century author Jack Finney are classic contributions to the genres of science fiction and suspense thrillers in American literature. Two of Finney's novels, ""The Body Snatchers"" and ""Good Neighbor Sam"", became the basis of... -
The Portable Western Reader by Various 9780140230260
RRP: $50.70$35.80The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as in its landforms. Yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. In the Portable Wester Reader, William Kittredge has assembled stories, poems,... -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Edward J. Rielly 9780313331640
$66.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography by Edward J. Rielly 9780313331640 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.50$27.18One of the most widely read writers in the high school curriculum, F. Scott Fitzgerald is the author of the great American novel, The Great Gatsby. While other biographies provide extensive information about Fitzgerald's life and achievements, this... -
The Cambridge History of American Poetry by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: $85.78$76.34The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars,... -
One Man's Meat by E. B. White
RRP: $25.33$23.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884481928Author E. B. WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books -
Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas by Adam Kirsch 9780393243468
RRP: $40.93$34.61Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute-[a] critic of the very first order" (The New York Times). In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of writers past and present, from intellectuals Susan Sontag, Hannah Arendt and Walter... -
Paul Auster by Mark Brown
RRP: $38.98$34.75Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By... -
Stephen Crane: Prose & Poetry (LOA #18) by Stephen Crane 9780940450172
RRP: $68.25$60.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450172Author Stephen CraneFormat HardbackPage Count 1379Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
A Companion to ""V by Kerry Grant 9780820322513
RRP: $56.45$54.41To the uninitiated, Thomas Pynchon's V. seems to defy comprehension with its open-ended and fragmented narrative, huge cast of characters (some 150 of them), and wide range of often obscure references. J. Kerry Grant's Companion to "V." takes... -
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative by Audrey Fisch
RRP: $64.33$55.34The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction by Stacey Olster
RRP: $38.98$33.40The 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... -
Elegant Complexity by Greg Carlisle 9780976146537
RRP: $63.47$45.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976146537Author Greg CarlisleFormat PaperbackImprint Sideshow Media GroupPublisher Sideshow Media GroupWeight(grams) 680g -
White Rose And The Red by H.D. 9780813035512
RRP: $48.65$39.12Never before published, White Rose and the Red is the fictional biography of Elizabeth Siddall, wife of English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This extraordinary novel explores the charged interpersonal relationships between and among Siddall,... -
War and American Literature by Jennifer Haytock
$183.71This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and... -
The Spiritual Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780807077191
RRP: $58.50$37.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807077191Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing by Alfred Bendixen 9780521678315 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.53$15.74Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing by Alfred Bendixen
RRP: $56.53$47.62Travel writing has always been intimately linked with the construction of American identity. Occupying the space between fact and fiction, it exposes cultural fault lines and reveals the changing desires and anxieties of both the traveller and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945 by Jennifer Ashton 9780521147958
RRP: $44.83$38.14The 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... -
Henry James: Literary Criticism Vol. 2 (LOA #23): European Writers and Prefaces to the New York Edition by Henry James 9780940450233
RRP: $87.75$60.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450233Author Henry JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 1442Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm)... -
The Art of Fiction by James Salter
RRP: $33.05$23.54James Salter's exalted place in American letters is based largely on the intense admiration of other writers, but his work resonates far beyond the realm of fellow craftsmen, addressing themes--youth, war, erotic love, marriage, life abroad,... -
Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays by Robert Duncan 9780520324855
RRP: $58.50$47.37A landmark in the publication of twentieth-century American poetry, this first volume of the long-awaited collected poetry, non-critical prose, and plays of Robert Duncan gathers all of Duncan's books and magazine publications up to and including... -
Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford
RRP: $42.88$34.20How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making... -
Auto/Ethnographies: Sex and Death and Symbolic Interaction in the Eighth Moment of Qualitative Inquiry: Seven Essays on the Self-Ethnography of Self by Michael Hemmingson 9781434402882
$24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434402882Author Michael HemmingsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 239gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
The Cambridge Companion to Boxing by Gerald Early 9781107631205
RRP: $60.43$52.98While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of the most popular, controversial and misunderstood sports in the world. For its advocates, it is a heroic... -
A Loving Voice: A Caregiver's Book of Read-Aloud Stories for the Elderly by Carolyn Banks 9780914783596
RRP: $40.95$40.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914783596Author Carolyn BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Charles Press Pubs(PA)Publisher Charles Press Pubs(PA)Weight(grams) 499g -
Auden and the Muse of History by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb 9781503633926
RRP: $50.68$43.86Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in... -
Two-Gun Bob: A Centennial Study of Robert E. Howard by Benjamin, Szumskyj 9780977173457
RRP: $29.25$26.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977173457Author Benjamin, SzumskyjFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 305gDimensions(mm)... -
The Unfilmable Confederacy of Dunces: How Ignatius J. Reilly Defeated Hollywood by Stephan Eicke
RRP: $56.53$46.90For more than 40 years, dozens of film directors, writers and producers tried and failed to adapt John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Along the way lawsuits were filed, filming locations destroyed, friendships... -
Script Culture and the American Screenplay by Kevin Alexander Boon 9780814332634
RRP: $56.45$40.77By considering the screenplay as a literary object worthy of critical inquiry, this volume breaks new ground in film studies.Though the history of the screenplay is as long and rich as the history of film itself, critics and scholars have neglected it as... -
Literary Criticisms of Law by Guyora Binder
RRP: $146.25$114.06In this book, the first to offer a comprehensive examination of the emerging study of law as literature, Guyora Binder and Robert Weisberg show that law is not only a scheme of social order, but also a process of creating meaning, and a crucial dimension...