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A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's Sheriff's Children by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375387811
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375387811Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Gale, Study... -
A Study Guide for Charles Chesnutt's the Goophered Grapevine by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375391313
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375391313Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Gale, Study... -
Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African American Fiction Writer by David Garrett Izzo 9780786441112
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19One of the best known and most widely read of early African American writers, Charles W. Chesnutt published more than fifty short stories, six novels, two plays, a biography of Frederick Douglass,... -
From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison by Trudier Harris 9780817322038
Booksplease Price: £98.55Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new... -
From Mammies to Militants: Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison by Trudier Harris 9780817361518
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new... -
Monkey Trouble: The Scandal of Posthumanism by Christopher Peterson 9780823277803
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous... -
The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature Melanie Benson Taylor 9780820373836
RRP: £124.95Booksplease Price: £104.56How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled... -
The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature Melanie Benson Taylor 9780820373843
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £15.33How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled... -
The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages by Matthew X. Vernon 9783319910888
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought. Matthew X. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but... -
Faulkner and History by Jay Watson 9781496823496
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Contributions by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Jordan Burke, Rebecca Bennett Clark, James C. Cobb, Anna Creadick, Colin Dayan, Wai Chee Dimock, Sarah E. Gardner, Hannah Godwin, Brooks E. Hefner, Andrew B... -
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World by Carole Lynn Stewart 9780271090238
Booksplease Price: £30.75Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells... -
Faulkner and History by Jay Watson 9781496809971
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50William Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians have referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of... -
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World by Carole Lynn Stewart 9780271082035
RRP: £102.99Booksplease Price: £91.45Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells... -
Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem by Jennifer L. Fleissner
Booksplease Price: £28.85An examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will. What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment... -
Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America by Tess Chakkalakal
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Novel Bondage unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors... -
Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation by Stephen Knadler 9780472054183
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £27.84Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical... -
Mythic Black Fiction: Transformation Of History by Jane Campbell 9780870495939
Booksplease Price: £18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870495939Author Jane CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Tennessee... -
Novel Bondage by Tess Chakkalakal 9780252036330
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Novel Bondage unravels the interconnections between marriage, slavery, and freedom through renewed readings of canonical nineteenth-century novels and short stories by black and white authors... -
American Scary: A History of Horror, from Salem to Stephen King and Beyond by Jeremy Dauber 9781643753560
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34From the acclaimed author of American Comics and Jewish Comedy comes a sweeping and entertaining narrative that details the rise and enduring grip of horror in American literature, cinema, and,... -
Stories of the South: Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915 by K. Stephen Prince 9781469627281
Booksplease Price: £34.68In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant... -
Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature by Hannah L. Huber 9780252045400
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits... -
Mod Lib The House Behind The Cedar by Charles W. Chesnutt
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812966169Author Charles ChesnuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher... -
Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity by Lindon Barrett 9780252038006
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14The unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of... -
Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire by Brandon J. Manning 9781978824249
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Dating back to the blackface minstrel performances of Bert Williams and the trickster figure of Uncle Julius in Charles Chesnutt's Conjure Tales, black humorists have negotiated American racial... -
Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930 by Lindgren Johnson
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a... -
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line by Charles W. Chesnutt 9781513269313
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line (1899) is a collection of short stories by African American writer, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Originally published in... -
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner 9781617038853
Booksplease Price: £88.60Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within... -
Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-century America by Richard H. Brodhead
Booksplease Price: £27.62Using a variety of historical sources, Richard H. Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of... -
The House Behind the Cedars by Charles W. Chesnutt 9781513266435
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African American writer Charles Chesnutt's debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capable of passing for white-which Chesnutt consciously... -
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt 9781513269191
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.16The Marrow of Tradition (1901) is a historical novel by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. Based on the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898-in which a group of... -
From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Studies by Bertram D. Ashe 9780415861021
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade Bambara and John... -
The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt 9781513269177
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.29The Conjure Woman (1899) is a collection of stories by African American author, lawyer, and political activist Charles Chesnutt. "The Goophered Grapevine," the collection's opening story,... -
Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels by Ryan Simmons 9780817359966
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realism Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period,... -
Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth Century America by Professor Nan Goodman
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37When someone gets hurt in an accident we reflexively ask a set of questions which ultimately comes down to who was blameworthy? Yet early nineteenth-century Americans were entirely, and to the modern... -
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies by Russ Castronovo 9781009296731
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In... -
Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by Jolene Hubbs 9781009250658
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £73.04Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature explores the role that representations of poor white people play in shaping both middle-class American identity and major American literary movements and... -
Literary Ambition and the African American Novel by Michael Nowlin
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69This book shows how African American literature emerged as a world-recognized literature: less as the product of a seamless tradition of writers signifying upon their ancestors and more the product... -
Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by Jolene Hubbs 9781009250641
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.14Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature explores the role that representations of poor white people play in shaping both middle-class American identity and major American literary movements and... -
Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White by Sarah Gilbreath Ford 9780817318239
Booksplease Price: £36.64In Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White, Sarah Gilbreath Ford explores how both black and white southern writers such as Joel Chandler Harris, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism by Phillip J. Barrish 9780521897693
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith...