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  • Fictions of Adolescent Carnalityby Lydia Kokkola

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 143.00

    Fictions 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 Literatureby Geoff Hamilton; Brian Jones

    McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 75.00

    This 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 Clubby Brian Armstrong

    Allen & Unwin 2013; US$ 20.70

    It 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 Writingby Alfred Hornung; Zhao Baisheng

    Universitätsverlag Winter 2013; US$ 51.77

    Hauptbeschreibung 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 Imaginationby Jonathan W. Gray

    University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 137.50

    The 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 Americanaby Colleen Glenney Boggs

    Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99

    Consulting 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 Cultureby Rocío Davis

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    This 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 Prophecyby Martin Kevorkian

    LSU Press 2013; US$ 35.00

    Writing 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 Experiencesby Carol Stone White

    University Press of New England 2012; US$ 19.99

    An anthology of adventure and life-threatening dangers atop the peaks of the Northeast more...

  • Boys Don't Cry?by Milette Shamir; Jennifer Travis

    Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 28.99

    We 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...