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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literatureby Arthur Riss
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 30.00Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum U.S. culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. This revisionary argument promises to be unsettling for literary critics, political philosophers, and historians of U.S. slavery. more...
James' The Portrait of a Ladyby James L. Roberts
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1965; US$ 5.99With rare honesty and acuity, James examines the mythologies of American life by putting Yanks in European society and letting them sink or swim. This tale of an innocent woman abroad adds to the wealth and richness of James's contribution to literature. more...
James' The Ambassadorsby Harvey D. Bea
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background — all to help you gain greater insight into great works you're bound to study for school or pleasure. CliffsNotes on James' The Ambassadors offers a close look at perhaps the most widely admired of Henry James' novels and makes an excellent introduction to his work. In this novel, you'll dig deep into James' most significant themes and the best of his style and technique. In this study guide, you'll find Life and Background of the Author, A Brief Synopsis of the story, and more: Critical Commentaries Character Analyses Critical Essays Essay Topics and Review Questions Selected Bibliography Classic... more...
Labor Painsby Carolyn R. Maibor
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95This book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self; the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne and Alcott demonstrate that valorizing the importance of work also validates the need for gender equality. more...
Misery's Mathematicsby Peter Balaam
Routledge 2004; US$ 133.00Misery's Mathematics reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers - including Emerson, Warner, Melville and Hawthorn - to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. more...
Revised Livesby William Pannapacker
Routledge 2003; US$ 139.00This book examines self-representation in US culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. more...
William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realismby Paul Abeln
Routledge 2004; US$ 139.00William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism helps us to see him as a writer very much aware of his limitations and of his enormous importance in the development of an American literary tradition. more...
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundationalby Gesa Mackenthun
Routledge 2004; US$ 161.00This book applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of the United States and the Civil War. more...
Henry James and Queer Modernityby Eric Haralson; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 50.00In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. more...
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literatureby John D. Kerkering; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 35.00Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, Kerkering tells the story of how poetry helped define America as a nation before helping to define America into distinct racial categories. Through formal literary effects, national and racial identities become related elements of a single literary history. more...









