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Poe's Short Storiesby J. M. Lybyer; James L. Roberts
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2001; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Edgar Allan Poe is celebrated as the genius of the gothic horror story. Emphasizing the grotesque, the mysterious, the desolate, and the horrible, he arouses fear in readers. He is the champion of storytelling that gives us a nervous sense of the ghostly and the supernatural. CliffsNotes on Poe's Short Stories takes you inside the mind of this one-of-a-kind American author. Consider his place in the Romantic movement and examine his critical theories with the insightful... more...
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 1by Philip A. Greasley
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 47.95The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume One, surveys the lives and writings of nearly 400 Midwestern authors and identifies some of the most important criticism of their writings. The Dictionary is based on the belief that the literature of any region simultaneously captures the experience and influences the worldview of its people, reflecting as well as shaping the evolving sense of individual and collective identity, meaning, and values. Volume One presents individual lives and literary orientations and offers a broad survey of the Midwestern experience as expressed by its many diverse peoples over time.Philip A. ... more...
Elizabeth Robinsby Angela V. John
Routledge 1995; US$ 89.95Elizabeth Robins considers this extraordinary actress within the context of her times, relating her own work to wider social and political issues, giving an account of the British and American cultural history of the period. more...
Edgar Allen Poeby Ian Walker
Routledge 1997; US$ 375.00Edgar Allen Poe (1809-49). Noted for the macabre and pathological element of his works. Writings include: The Raven and other poems, Tamerlane and other poems. Volume covers the period 1846-1892. more...
American Flaneurby James V. Werner
Routledge 2004; US$ 111.00Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relationship with his surrounding culture. more...
Native American and Chicano/a Literature of the Americanby Christina M. Hebebrand
Routledge 2004; US$ 90.00This book studies Native American and Chicano writers of the American Southwest as a coherent cultural group with common features and distinct efforts to deal with and to resist the dominant Euro-American culture. more...
New North American Studiesby Winfred Siemerling
Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95In this original and ground-breaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of identity and recognition in the meaning of 'American.' more...
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary Westby William R. Handley; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley examines works of historiography, as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others. more...
Poe and the Printed Wordby Kevin J. Hayes; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 26.00Kevin Hayes reappraises Edgar Allan Poe's work in the context of nineteenth-century print culture. Beginning with Poe's early exposure to the printed word, and ending with the ambitious magazine and book projects of his final years, this study is part biography, part literary history and part history of the book. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poeby Kevin J. Hayes
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 25.00The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allen Poe consists of 14 essays by leading international scholars. It examines all of Poe's major writings, and places his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. It features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading. more...