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The Awakening by Kate Chopin 9780393617313
$17.20Included here are: a preface, a critical essay and explanatory annotations by Margo Culley; essays by acclaimed Kate Chopin biographers; selections from the conduct books of the period; contemporary perspectives on womanhood, motherhood and marriage; and... -
So We Read on: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures by Maureen Corrigan 9780316230063
RRP: $25.79$17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316230063Author Maureen CorriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy Timothy P. Schilling 9781647791674
RRP: $63.15$51.45The Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy provides the first critical reassessment of this celebrated author's work in more than a decade. In his study, Timothy P. Schilling focuses on Maclean's attempt, in A River Runs through It and... -
American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth by Thomas Gustafson 9781978838031
$83.35One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old... -
American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth by Thomas Gustafson 9781978838024
RRP: $36.11$32.19One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old... -
Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution by Matthew Garrett 9780190887445
RRP: $44.49$40.73The early United States was a culture of the episode. In Episodic Poetics, Matthew Garrett merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot. Since Aristotle's Poetics,... -
Placing John Haines by James Perrin Warren 9781602233096
$49.63John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947, and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries,... -
Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose: 1800 to the Present by Richard W. Etulain 9781647791421
RRP: $63.15$55.37Richard W. Etulain examines the emergence of Pacific Northwest prose beginning in the early nineteenth century up to the present. The book provides an introductory overview to a vast subject through “illuminative moments” that illustrate major shifts in... -
Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods: Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry by Christopher Chen 9781350164000
$125.39This book conducts a comparative study of three literary traditions - post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry - which are usually examined separately. In so doing, it intervenes in conventional understandings of postwar... -
Boone, Black Hawk, and Crockett in 1833: Unsettling the Mythic West by Michael A. Lofaro
RRP: $83.85$68.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621904861Author Michael A. LofaroFormat HardbackPage Count 277Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee Press -
Michigan Salvage: The Fiction of Bonnie Jo Campbell by Lisa DuRose
$52.28Michigan Salvage is the first scholarly collection on celebrated writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, the author of two novels and three short story collections, including National Book Award finalist American Salvage (2009). Her writing captures a diverse and... -
When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind by Elaine Auyoung
RRP: $19.34$17.93Why do readers claim that fictional worlds feel real? How can certain literary characters seem capable of leading lives of their own, outside the stories in which they appear? What makes the experience of reading a novel uniquely pleasurable and what do... -
The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination by Nan Goodman
$131.89The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans - connected to the cosmopolis in part... -
American Enchantment: Rituals of the People in the Post-Revolutionary World by Michelle Sizemore
RRP: $107.07$97.19The demise of the monarchy and the bodily absence of a King caused a representational crisis in the early republic, forcing the American people to reconstruct the social symbolic order in a new and unfamiliar way. Social historians have routinely... -
William Blake and the Myth of America: From the Abolitionists to the Counterculture by Linda Freedman 9780198813279
RRP: $101.91$98.81This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low... -
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity by Ian Finseth 9780190848347
RRP: $95.46$86.83The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a massive array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861... -
Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study by Catharine Savage Brosman 9781496852137
RRP: $38.64$31.13Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the distinctive Louisiana Creole peoples, chiefly in the southeastern part of the state. The book covers... -
Why I Hate Toni Morrison's Beloved: Several Decades of Reading Unwisely by Scott Bradfield 9781530581764
RRP: $16.13$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530581764Author Scott BradfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
959 Questions of William Faulkner by L Dale Richesin 9781974282708
RRP: $25.74$21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781974282708Author L Dale RichesinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Lesser-Known Works of Wyoming Fiction by John D Nesbitt 9781523476350
RRP: $7.68$6.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523476350Author John D NesbittFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Representing Rural Women by Whitney Womack Smith 9781498595544
RRP: $45.15$41.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498595544Author Whitney Womack SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
The Distance from Slaughter County: Lessons from Flyover Country by Steven Moore 9781469673950
RRP: $24.45$15.73As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, specifically rural places, and how it follows us, changes us. What Moore has to say about rural... -
Garden Prayers: Spring by T M Givens 9781949790313
RRP: $27.09$20.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949790313Author T M GivensFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint PelekinesisPublisher PelekinesisWeight(grams) 136g -
Fascist Directive by Catherine E. Paul 9781942954729
RRP: $42.51$36.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942954729Author Catherine E. PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 513g -
The GWTW Fortnight by Sarah Lawson 9781480150584
RRP: $15.48$13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480150584Author Sarah LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Tall Tales And Short Stories: An Amusing Compilation Of Rare Short Stories By Mark Twain by Mark Twain 9781516954797
RRP: $9.02$7.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516954797Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Tall Tales And Short Stories: An Amusing Compilation Of Mark Twain's Short Stories by Mark Twain 9781516926152
RRP: $9.02$7.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516926152Author Mark TwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Representing Rural Women by Margaret Thomas-Evans 9781498595520
RRP: $109.65$101.66Representing Rural Women seeks to highlight the complexity and diversity of representations of rural women in the U.S. and Canada from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The 15 chapters in the collection offer fresh perspectives on representations... -
Old-Fashioned Modernism: Rural Masculinity and Midwestern Literature by Andy Oler 9780807170786
$55.79The Midwest holds two conflicting positions in the American cultural imagination, both of which rob the region of its distinctiveness. Often, it is seen as the ""heartland,"" a pastoral ideal standing in for all of American culture... -
Ruin and Resilience: Southern Literature and the Environment by Daniel Spoth 9780807179369
$53.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807179369Author Daniel SpothFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint LSU PressPublisher LSU PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City by Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr. 9780807179338
$55.70Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In... -
Three Hundred Years of Decadence: New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World by Robert Azzarello 9780807170458
$53.61New Orleans's reputation as a decadent city stems in part from its environmental precariousness, its Francophilia, its Afro-Caribbean connections, its Catholicism, and its litany of alleged ""vices,"" encompassing prostitution,... -
Reading Reconstruction: Sherwood Bonner and the Literature of the Post-Civil War South by Kathryn B. McKee 9780807169957
$61.38Kathryn B. McKee's Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) as an astute cultural observer throughout the 1870s and 1880s who portrayed the discord and uneasiness of the Reconstruction era in her... -
Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860 by Katharine A. Burnett 9780807169308
$61.08Offering a compelling intervention in studies of antebellum writing, Katharine A. Burnett's Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860 examines how popular modes of literary production in the South... -
The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After by Joseph R. Millichap 9780807162774
$61.11The Language of Vision celebrates and interprets the complementary expressions of photography and literature in the South. Southern imagery and text affect one another, explains Joseph R. Millichap, as intertextual languages and influential visions... -
Faulknerista by Catherine G. Kodat 9780807179178
RRP: $72.24$58.66Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding... -
Postregional Fictions: Barry Hannah and the Challenges of Southern Studies by Clare Chadd 9780807174937
$60.91Drawing from recent debates about the validity of regional studies and skepticism surrounding the efficacy of the concept of authenticity, Clare Chadd's Postregional Fictions focuses on questions of southern regional authenticity in fiction published by... -
Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies by Zackary Vernon 9780807171134
RRP: $55.41$45.82As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems, carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts, scholars across academia... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496802330
RRP: $140.61$114.13A critical companion to the striking variety of contemporary southern literature. Contributions by Barbara Bennett, Thomas AErvold Bjerre, Erik Bledsoe, Linda Byrd Cook, Thomas E. Dasher, Robert Donahoo, Peter Farris, Richard Gaughran, William Giraldi,... -
Faulkner and the Politics of Reading by Karl F. Zender 9780807180440
RRP: $28.32$23.14With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner's achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to...