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Washington Irvings Contributions to the Corrector
University of Minnesota Press 1968; US$ 60.00This volume makes available, for the first time in collected form, a series of sketches by Washington Irving which were published anonymously in a political newspaper, The Corrector, in 1804. The Corrector, a short-lived political sheet, was published in more...
What Maisie Knew
OUP Oxford 1996; US$ 8.99What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the... more...
Washington Irving
University of Minnesota Press 1963; US$ 36.00Washington Irving - American Writers 25 was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Henry James
University of Minnesota Press 1960; US$ 36.00Henry James - American Writers 4 was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 29.00An exploration of the theme of equality in Stowe, Douglass, Hawthorne, Alcott and others. more...
Aufgeklärte Zeiten?
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2011; US$ 49.77Hauptbeschreibung Seit den Terroranschlägen 2001 in den USA hat das Reden über "Toleranz" im Rahmen der Debatten um vermeintliche und tatsächliche religiöse Konflikte, um innere Sicherheit und Integration eine neue Aktualität erlangt. Zu wenig beachtet wurde bisher die Bedeutung der Literatur für diese Auseinandersetzungen: Die Beiträge des Bandes... more...
Repräsentationen des Krieges
Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 26.08Hauptbeschreibung Der Krieg und seine Inszenierungen in Literatur und audiovisuellen Medien. Seit jeher provozieren Kriege heftige Emotionen. Mit dem Fortschritt militärischer Techniken und Propagandamethoden ging aber auch eine Veränderung der Wahrnehmung von Kriegen durch die Künste einher. Bis heute werden in Medien wie der Literatur, der Fotografie,... more...
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 161.00This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework. The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American... more...
Henry James and Queer Modernity
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 51.00In 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...









