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Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City by Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr. 9780807179338
$86.35Focusing 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... -
Faulknerista by Catherine G. Kodat 9780807179178
$121.80Faulknerista 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
$96.08Drawing 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... -
Rough South, Rural South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature by Jean W. Cash 9781496802330
RRP: $228.90$212.00A 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
$47.86With 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... -
Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies by Sheila E. Jelen 9780814343180
RRP: $147.00$139.90Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by... -
Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration by Michal Choinski 9780807172988
$95.97In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, Micha? Choi?ski confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and representation strategies in works produced from the... -
The Dirty South: Exploring a Fantasized Region, 1970–2020 by James A. Crank 9780807180136
$91.69The Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize soil, garbage, trash, grit, litter, mud, swamp water,... -
Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards 9780807173626
$149.44Before Fanfiction investigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp... -
Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth by Taylor Hagood 9780807169964
$58.46In Faulkner's Imperialism, Taylor Hagood explores two staples of Faulkner's world: myth and place. Using an interdisciplinary approach to examine economic, sociological, and political factors in Faulkner's writing, he applies postcolonial theory,... -
Keywords for Southern Studies by Scott Romine 9780820340616
RRP: $205.80$192.70In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are... -
Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South by Conor Picken 9780807171738
$115.96Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this... -
The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy by Vereen M. Bell 9780807180372
$47.84Now back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Published in 1988,... -
Faulknerista by Catherine G. Kodat 9780807178492
RRP: $62.90$43.72Faulknerista 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... -
Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards 9780807180273
$58.82Before Fanfiction investigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp... -
Heeding the Call: A Study of Denise Giardina's Novels by William Jolliff 9781949199420
RRP: $207.90$198.05In Heeding the Call, William Jolliff offers the first book-length discussion of West Virginia writer and activist Denise Giardina, perhaps best known for her novel Storming Heaven, which helped spark renewed interest in the turn-of-the-century Mine Wars... -
California Gothic: The Dark Side of the Dream by Charles L. Crow 9781839983795
RRP: $44.08$42.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839983795Author Charles L. CrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Hawthorne's Literary History: From Salem to Somewhere Else by Michael J. Colacurcio 9781839983221
RRP: $168.00$160.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839983221Author Michael J. ColacurcioFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Gulf Gothic: Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona's Undead Voices by Dolores Flores-Silva 9781839980367
RRP: $44.08$42.29Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a single transnational region and as dynamic ground zero of North... -
The Gothic Literature and History of New England: Secrets of the Restless Dead by Faye Ringel 9781785279034
RRP: $44.08$42.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279034Author Faye RingelFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g -
Faulkner's Families by Jay Watson 9781496845030
$232.93Contributions by Josephine Adams, Jeff Allred, Garry Bertholf, Maxwell Cassity, John N. Duvall, Katherine Henninger, Maude Hines, Robert Jackson, Julie Beth Napolin, Rebecca Nisetich, George Porter Thomas, Jay Watson, and Yuko YamamotoIf it seems... -
Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West by Mark Fiege 9781496236173
RRP: $50.38$38.87Wallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain, as well as his nonfiction books and essays introduced the beauty and character of the American West to... -
Kitchen Economics: Women's Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy by Thomas Strychacz 9780817320584
$122.14An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought. Readers of late nineteenth-century female American authors are familiar with plots, characters, and households that make a virtue of economizing... -
Silas House: Exploring an Appalachian Writer's Work by Sylvia Shurbutt 9780813181127
RRP: $63.00$60.65Silas House is a beloved and celebrated Kentucky author, music journalist, and activist who has focused nearly all his work on Appalachia and its culture. His groundbreaking writings across genres have captured and catalogued Appalachian life while... -
Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020 by William P. Murray 9780807181553
$78.27Dangerous Innocence investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the U.S. South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the "southern outsider" in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020,... -
Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll by Florence Dore 9780231185226
RRP: $176.40$137.95The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American... -
We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature by Kiara Kharpertian 9781496208842
RRP: $105.00$91.16We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving from Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's representations of dispossessed Californio ranchers in the mid-nineteenth century to the... -
Faulkner's Families by Jay Watson 9781496845863
$71.40Contributions by Josephine Adams, Jeff Allred, Garry Bertholf, Maxwell Cassity, John N. Duvall, Katherine Henninger, Maude Hines, Robert Jackson, Julie Beth Napolin, Rebecca Nisetich, George Porter Thomas, Jay Watson, and Yuko YamamotoIf it seems... -
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance: Postmodern and Postcolonial Development by Dr Yoshinobu Hakutani 9780367246518
RRP: $79.78$70.10The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during the 1930s, the Chicago Renaissance originated between... -
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance: Postmodern and Postcolonial Development by Dr Yoshinobu Hakutani 9780367230173
RRP: $283.50$246.29The Chicago Renaissance has long been considered a less important literary movement than the Harlem Renaissance. While the Harlem Renaissance began and flourished during the 1920s, but faded during the 1930s, the Chicago Renaissance originated between... -
Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap by Frédérique Spill 9781496849014
$71.40Inventing Benjy: William Faulkner’s Most Splendid Creative Leap is a groundbreaking work at the intersection of Faulkner studies and disability studies. Originally published in 2009 by Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle as L’Idiotie dans l’œuvre de... -
Yankee Yarns: Storytelling and the Invention of the National Body in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Stefanie Schäfer 9781474477451
RRP: $54.58$49.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474477451Author Stefanie SchäferFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 445g -
American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race by Professor Susan Gillman 9780226819662
RRP: $46.20$26.75The story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting... -
American Mediterraneans: A Study in Geography, History, and Race by Professor Susan Gillman 9780226819648
RRP: $159.60$89.86The story of the "American Mediterranean," both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting... -
Keywords for Southern Studies by Scott Romine 9780820349626
$73.77In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are... -
The Little Art Colony and Us Modernism: Carmel, Provincetown, Taos by Geneva M Gano
RRP: $54.58$49.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474439763Author Geneva M GanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 138g -
Political Justice in a Republic: James Fenimore Cooper's America by John P. McWilliams, Jr.
RRP: $168.00$129.97This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden by Richard Francis
RRP: $54.58$47.23New England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and patterned... -
Twenty-First-Century Southern Writers: New Voices, New Perspectives by Jean W. Cash
RRP: $62.90$42.42Contributions by Destiny O. Birdsong, Jean W. Cash, Kevin Catalano, Amanda Dean Freeman, David Gates, Richard Gaughran, Rebecca Godwin, Joan Wylie Hall, Dixon Hearne, Phillip Howerton, Emily D. Langhorne, Shawn E. Miller, Melody Pritchard, Nick... -
Left in the West: Literature, Culture, and Progressive Politics in the American West by Gioia Woods
$98.97Gioia Woods and her contributors bring together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural left in the American West. Left in the West expands our understanding of what constitutes the literary left in the United...