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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 30.00The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to Emerson's work. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. more...
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00Esteve examines crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve analyses the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes. more...
Fictions of Adolescent Carnality
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 143.00Fictions of Adolescent Carnality considers one of the most controversial topics related to adolescents: their experience of desire. In fiction for adolescents, carnal desire is variously presented as a source of angst, an overwhelming experience over which one has no control, bestial, disgusting and, just occasionally, a source of pleasure. The on-set... more...
Bloom's How to Write about Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infobase Publishing 2008; US$ 45.00Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of America's most influential thinkers and indisputably the central figure of the American Renaissance of the mid-19th century. His essay Nature is considered to be the founding document for the transcendentalist movement, and his influence can be seen in the writings of Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and others. Bloom's... more...
Emerson and Thoreau
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 44.00This book represents the first comprehensive collection of contemporary reviews of the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. more...
Creative Awakenings
F+W Media 2011; US$ 24.99Utilize your creativity to manifest your personal intention. Work in the spirit of the laws of attraction to visualize the life of your dreams. Follow the journey of twelve artists, each who will set a personal dream or intention. Witness the process that each artist takes, as they create a mixed-media piece that sows the seeds of their intention.... more...
Heartland of the Imagination
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 40.00Conservative strands in American literature are often overlooked on America's largely liberal university campuses. This book focuses on the works of conservative American writers and of others who have written of America from a conservative perspective. Beginning with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, the book explores the traditionalist temper in books... more...
Horizons of Enchantment
Dartmouth College Press 2011; US$ 27.99A unique and original reading of the American imaginary more...
The Exotic Booze Club
Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 20.70It was a club created in flagrant violation of his employer's rules. A club for intrepid film-makers to share their hair-raising stories - of deadly snakes, acid lakes, enormous crocodiles and other examples of nature at its most dangerous - over a glass (or ten) of rotgut booze from the world's most dangerous zones. A memoir of alcoholic proportions! more...









