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The Sex Is Out of This World
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00This book is a collection of new essays, with the general objective of filling a gap in the literature about sex and science fiction. Although some work has been published, none of it is recent. The essays herein explore the myriad ways in which authors writing in the genre, regardless of format (e.g., print, film, television, etc.), envision very... more...
In the Shadows of a Fallen Wall
UNP - Nebraska 2013; US$ 19.95Growing up, what Sanford Tweedie knew about East Germany was basically . . . nothing. West Germans were our friends; East Germans, the enemy. In 2000, somewhat better informed, Tweedie took advantage of a Fulbright Scholarship to move his family to the eastern German town of Erfurt for the academic year. Far from home and the familiar, with temporary... more...
Colonizer Abroad
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society. more...
Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 139.00This book analyses the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. more...
Altered Egos
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 124.99This book is concerned with the "authority" of autobiography, seeing it as a shifting ground on which writers struggle for literary control over their lives against the constraints of genre, language, and society. more...
The Coupling Convention
Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 29.99Spanning the period 1853 to 1948, this study explores the nascence of literary activity among American black women and goes on to investigate the cultural climate which led some of the most prominent to use the marriage convention as a means of exploring questions of sexuality and relationships. more...
Walking Point
Oxford University Press 1988; US$ 99.99An assessment of the most important novels and memoirs written by Americans about Vietnam, considered under the headings of realism, the classical memoir, black humour, revised romanticism. and mnemonic narrative. more...
Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00Cindy Weinstein's book radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature. Weinstein argues that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested. Through intensive close readings of a wide range of novels, she demonstrates the aesthetic and political complexities in this important and influential genre. more...
Dracula Paperback Book
Saddleback Publishing 1999; US$ 12.95Each novel, complete in just 80-pages, has been painstakingly adapted to retain the integrity of the original work. Each provides the reader a sense of the author's style and an understanding of the novel's theme. more...
Different Dispatches
Routledge 2006; US$ 80.00Brings together a group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, and Robert Penn Warren. This book demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. more...









