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Hemingway: The Writer As Artist by Carlos Baker
RRP: $107.25$83.67In this fourth edition of the best-known critical study of Hemingway's work Carlos Baker has completely revised the two opening chapters, which deal with the young Hemingway's career in Paris, and has incorporated material uncovered after the publication... -
Lincoln's Selected Writings by Abraham Lincoln 9780393921793
RRP: $33.13$29.27Lincoln's Selected Writings includes letters, speeches, eulogies, proposals, debate transcriptions, addresses and more, accompanied by annotations, a preface, a note on the texts and a list of abbreviations. The writings are followed by contemporary... -
The Novel After Theory by Judith Ryan 9780231157438
RRP: $48.75$38.20Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the... -
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Critical Essays with a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism by Jackson J. Benson
RRP: $44.83$39.02The Grapes of Wrath is generally considered Steinbeck's masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciously theorized about, and with constant experimentation he made the form his own. Much of the best-and the... -
The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism by Henry James 9780312597061
$68.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312597061Author Henry JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Claudia Roth Pierpont 9780374534936 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.00$10.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534936Author Claudia Roth PierpontFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &... -
Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books by Claudia Roth Pierpont 9780374534936
RRP: $39.00$25.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534936Author Claudia Roth PierpontFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &... -
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 Prolific & the Devourer (Paper) by WH Auden 9780880014656
$15.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880014656Author WH AudenFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO PressWeight(grams) 113g -
A Cycle of the West: The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, The Song of Jed Smith, The Song of the Indian Wars, The Song of the Messiah by John G. Neihardt
RRP: $68.25$56.94A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the... -
The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth by Martin Barker 9780878058594
RRP: $68.15$64.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878058594Author Martin BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint University Press of MississippiPublisher University Press of MississippiWeight(grams)... -
Religion in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction: Apocryphal Borderlands by Manuel Broncano
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy's fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Current criticism is divided between those who find a theological dimension in his works, and those who reject such an... -
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor by Russell Baker 9780393035926
RRP: $97.50$79.89Baker surveys this territory in this rich treasury and stakes it out in a dozen sections. Roaming through them, the reader will find P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken, James Thurber, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.Book InformationISBN 9780393035926Author... -
Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices by Shelley Fisher Fishkin 9780195089141
RRP: $51.66$44.56Published in 1884, Huckleberry Finn has become one of the msot widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did it come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin suggests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than any other work,... -
Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance by Ellen Gruber Garvey 9780199927692
RRP: $83.83$61.05Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooksthe ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and... -
Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures by Timothy Aubry
RRP: $70.10$56.47In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies' embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature's role in supporting or challenging dominant... -
Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historic Documents by Claudia Durst Johnson 9780313291937
$117.68To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel of such profound power that it has affected the lives of readers and left and indelible mark on American culture. This rich collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary captures the essence of... -
The Art of Mystery: The Search for Questions by Maud Casey 9781555977948
RRP: $27.30$16.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555977948Author Maud CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm *... -
Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism by Rachel Greenwald Smith
RRP: $60.43$37.13Rachel Greenwald Smith's Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between American literature and politics in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Smith contends that the representation of emotions in... -
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre by Kerry Fine
RRP: $58.48$47.852021 Top Ten Finalist for the Locus Awards in Nonfiction Joshua Smith's chapter "Uncle Tom's Cabin Showdown" won the 2021 Don D. Walker Prize from the Western Literature AssociationWeird Westerns is an exploration of the hybrid western genre-an... -
American Adam by R.W.B. Lewis 9780226476810
RRP: $46.80$44.91Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"-dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De... -
Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism by Karla Armbruster 9780813920146
$68.58Ecocriticism, a field of study that has expanded dramatically over the past decade, has nevertheless remained - until recently - closely focused on critical analyses of nature writing and literature of wilderness. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace... -
Africana Womanist Literary Theory by Clenora Hudson-Weems 9781592210565
RRP: $38.90$25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592210565Author Clenora Hudson-WeemsFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 244g -
Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Christopher MacGowan 9780631220268
RRP: $68.15$60.12Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry. A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry. Written by a... -
The Notebooks by Henry James 9780226511047
RRP: $87.75$84.26"For other novelists the value of Henry James's Notebooks is immense and to brood over them a major experience. The glow of the great impresario is on the pages. They are occasionally readable and endlessly stimulating, often moving and are ocasionally... -
The Cambridge Companion to John Updike by Stacey Olster
RRP: $64.33$55.44John 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... -
The Cambridge Introduction to The Nineteenth-Century American Novel by Gregg D. Crane 9780521603997
RRP: $56.53$46.41Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period... -
The Dickens Industry - Critical Perspectives 1836-2005 by Laurence W. Mazzeno
RRP: $64.33$57.00Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was... -
The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X by Robert E. Terrill 9780521731577
RRP: $44.83$38.14Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s by Leigh Claire La Berge 9780190845988
$64.80The Long 1980s could be summed up handily in the annals of U.S. cultural history with the enduring markers of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Oliver Stone's film Wall Street, and Dire Straits's hit single "Money for Nothing." Despite their vast differences,... -
Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction by Kenneth Millard 9780748621743
RRP: $54.58$50.72This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and... -
American Literature in Context after 1929 by Philip R. Yannella 9781405186001 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.85$18.45American Literature in Context after 1929 American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the Great... -
American Literature in Context after 1929 by Philip R. Yannella 9781405186001
RRP: $40.85$36.08American Literature in Context after 1929 American Literature in Context after 1929 is the perfect companion for readers who want to familiarize themselves with the historical events and literary movements that shaped American literature from the Great... -
Contemporary American Trauma Narratives by Alan Gibbs
RRP: $56.53$52.47This book looks at the way writers present the effects of trauma in their work. It explores narrative devices, such as 'metafiction', as well as events in contemporary America, including 9/11, the Iraq War, and reactions to the Bush administration... -
Steinbeck's Typewriter: Essays on His Art by Robert Demott 9781475935127
$32.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475935127Author Robert DemottFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Walking in the Wilderness: The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting by Michaela Keck 9783825351960
$140.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825351960Author Michaela KeckFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Universitatsverlag WinterPublisher Universitatsverlag WinterWeight(grams) 4450g -
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 Mystery by H.D. 9780813035529
RRP: $48.65$38.34"Augustine's edition of The Mystery is a model of editorial excellence and an immense contribution to H.D. scholarship, crucial to an understanding of the poet's creative processes and central themes. Every reader of modernist literature will want... -
The Emotional Life of the Great Depression by John Marsh 9780198847731
RRP: $91.63$69.46The Emotional Life of the Great Depression documents how Americans responded emotionally to the crisis of the Great Depression. Unlike most books about the 1930s, which focus almost exclusively on the despair of the American people during the decade,... -
Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History by Cynthia J. Davis 9780195090536
$185.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.