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The Life of Robert Frost: A Critical Biography by Henry Hart
RRP: $79.70$59.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119103646Author Henry HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher Wiley-BlackwellWeight(grams) 152g -
Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" by Julian Murphet 9780826452450
RRP: $46.18$45.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Beats: A Very Short Introduction by David Sterritt 9780199796779
RRP: $18.88$13.88In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Beat Generation writers revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took... -
The Awakening: And Other Stories by Kate Chopin
RRP: $18.88$12.10'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story,... -
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward 9780743274074
$35.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274074Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory by Houston A. Baker 9780226035383
RRP: $56.70$55.59Relating the blues to American social and literary history and to Afro-American expressive culture, Houston A. Baker, Jr., offers the basis for a broader study of American culture at its "vernacular" level. He shows how the "blues voice" and its economic... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens by John N. Serio
RRP: $48.28$38.56Wallace 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 Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction by Catherine Ross Nickerson
RRP: $48.28$41.08From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide... -
Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism by Rebecca Beasley 9780521152679
RRP: $83.98$69.85Ezra Pound was deeply engaged with the avant-garde art scene in London and Paris during the early twentieth century. The effects of this engagement were not restricted to experiments in poetic form, however; they directly shaped Pound's social and... -
Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal by Jeffrey J. Kripal
RRP: $50.40$43.09In many ways, twentieth-century America was the land of superheroes and science fiction. From Superman and Batman to the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, these pop-culture juggernauts, with their "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,"... -
Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer" by Frederick W. Turner 9780300192513
$55.27The untold story of Henry Miller's explosive 1934 novel, banned in America for more than a quarter century Though branded as pornography for its graphic language and explicit sexuality, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is far more than a work that tested... -
The Beat Generation: A Beginner's Guide by Christopher Gair
RRP: $20.98$15.86The Beat Generation were a radical group of American writers whose relaxed, gritty and candid writing inspired generations. In his chronicle of the origins, adventures, and inner workings of the Beat movement, Christopher Gair reveals how it sparked one... -
Conversations with Susan Sontag by Leland A. Poague 9780878058341
RRP: $62.90$48.99Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats by Steven Belletto
RRP: $48.28$39.67The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached... -
New Orleans: A Writer's City by T. R. Johnson
RRP: $42.00$30.85The neighborhoods of New Orleans have given rise to an extraordinary outpouring of important writing. Over the last century and a half or so, these stories and songs have given the city its singular place in the human imagination. This book leads the... -
The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James D. Hart 9780195065480
RRP: $136.50$102.27For more than a half a century, James Hart's Oxford Companion to American Literature has been a matchless guide through the myriad paths and byways of American literary culture. It has been revised regularly since its first publication in 1941, although... -
H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq
RRP: $29.38$20.03Part biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the French best-selling novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever... -
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany
RRP: $33.58$30.74Winner of the Hugo Award for Non-fiction The unexpurgated edition of the award-winning autobiography Born in New York City's black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married white poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school... -
Devotion by Patti Smith
RRP: $29.38$25.73The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve... -
Student Companion to Tennessee Williams by Nancy M. Tischler 9780313312380
$103.68From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant The Glass Menagerie, until his final curtain call with the 1979 production of The Two-Character Play, Tennessee Williams never stopped experimenting with theatrical techniques and striving to explain... -
Kate Chopin's The Awakening: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook by Janet Beer 9780415238212
RRP: $41.98$37.15Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.This sourcebook combines accessible... -
Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible" by Linda Wagner-Martin 9780826452344
$37.99This 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... -
Black, White and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture by Hortense J. Spillers 9780226769806
RRP: $75.60$73.98"Black, White and in Colour" offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspiring black critics of the past 20 years. Spanning her work from the early 1980s, in which she pioneered a broadly... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
RRP: $44.10$38.14Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define... -
Cries Of The Spirit by Marilyn Sewell 9780807068496
$61.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807068496Author Marilyn SewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 9781107539785
RRP: $48.28$37.17The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic offers an accessible overview to both the breadth and depth of the American Gothic tradition. This subgenre features works from many of America's best-known authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Toni Morrison, Stephen King,... -
New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye by Jack Salzman 9780521377980
RRP: $50.38$42.78First published in 1951, Catcher in the Rye continues to be one of the most popular novels ever written as well as one of the most frequently banned books in the United States. In his introduction to this volume, Jack Salzman discusses the history of the... -
Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl
RRP: $33.58$23.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976082200Author Jerry StahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint ProcessPublisher ProcessWeight(grams) 446g -
The Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost by Robert Faggen 9780521670067
RRP: $41.98$33.87Robert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre. The... -
Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America by Christopher Bram
RRP: $84.00$59.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Gay Nonfiction) 2013. Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780446563130Author Christopher BramFormat... -
The H.D. Book by Robert Duncan 9780520272620
RRP: $65.10$52.56This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America's most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to... -
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka
RRP: $184.80$144.38The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic... -
Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance by Joseph Roach 9780231203876
RRP: $46.20$36.46In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the "feathered people" and warlike "Mohocks." Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, "Mardi Gras... -
The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance by Arthur Versluis 9780195138870
RRP: $267.75$225.94The term 'Western esotericism' refers to a wide range of spiritual currents including alchemy, Hermeticism, Kabbala, Rosicrucianism, and Christian theosophy, as well as several practical forms of esotericism like cartomancy, geomancy, necromancy,... -
The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway by Richard Bradford
RRP: $42.00$39.50A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and... -
Hemingway: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers 9780306808906
$69.91Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The... -
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature by Rosemarie Garland Thomson 9780231183178
RRP: $52.50$41.14Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. Framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, the book added depth to oppressive narratives and revealed novel,... -
Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs, Revised Edition by William S Burroughs 9780814253830
RRP: $33.50$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814253830Author William S BurroughsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)... -
Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma by Kali Tal 9780521565127
RRP: $79.78$65.75Worlds of Hurt presents a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as its focus the Holocaust, the Vietnam war, and the phenomenon of sexual violence against women. Survivors of these traumas... -
The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic by Susan Castillo Street 9781349693337
RRP: $62.98$58.38This book examines 'Southern Gothic' - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do 'Southern' and 'Gothic' mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss,...