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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...
Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 75.00This encyclopedia introduces readers to American poetry, fiction and nonfiction with a focus on the environment (broadly defined as humanity's natural surroundings), from the discovery of America through the present. The work includes biographical and literary entries on material from early explorers and colonists such as Columbus, Bartolome de... 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...
Ecology and Life Writing
Universitätsverlag Winter 2013; US$ 51.77Hauptbeschreibung This volume examines the interrelations between ecological concerns and personal forms of writing in Europe, Asia, and America. It assembles contributions from an international conference of experts from four continents who provide new insights into the redefinition of the self in contact with nature in different parts of the world.... more...
Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 137.50The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron.... more...
Animalia Americana
Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99Consulting a diverse archive of literary texts, Colleen Glenney Boggs places animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. From the bestiality trials of the seventeenth-century Plymouth Plantation to the emergence of sentimental pet culture in the nineteenth, Boggs traces a history of human-animal sexuality in... more...
The Transnationalism of American Culture
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00This book studies the transnational nature of American cultural production, specifically literature, film, and music, examining how these serve as ways of perceiving the United States and American culture. The volume?s engagement with the reality of transnationalism focuses on material examples that allow for an exploration of concrete manifestations... more...
Writing beyond Prophecy
LSU Press 2013; US$ 35.00Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson?s Conduct of Life to Hawthorne?s posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscript to Melville?s... more...
Peak Experiences
University Press of New England 2012; US$ 19.99An anthology of adventure and life-threatening dangers atop the peaks of the Northeast more...
Boys Don't Cry?
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 28.99We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural... more...









