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Henry James and the Father Question
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. more...
Henry James and the Abuse of the Past
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 106.00Henry James and the Abuse of the Past explores the complex uses to which James puts his oblique experience of the American Civil War. Why does James use and abuse the past by fabricating and distorting people and events in his autobiographical work? The study integrates four elements: history, the past and problems of narration and representation;... more...
American Madonna
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 33.99This book explores a notable if unlikely undercurrent of interest in Mary as mythical Madonna that has persisted in American life and letters from fairly early in the nineteenth century into the later twentieth. This imaginative involvement with the Divine Woman -- verging at times on devotional homage -- is especially intriguing as manifested in... more...
Correspondence and American Literature, 1770-1865
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 32.00Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors, including Jefferson, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre with which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. more...
Machine and Metaphor
CRC Press 2006; US$ 65.00American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems to align itself with science, many have paired the two fields rather unproblematically. But this book demonstrates that many realist writers, from Mark... more...
Transnationalism and American Literature
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 37.95What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature? This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temporalities of the transatlantic. Boggs demonstrates... more...
Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 122.00Much has been written recently about the important changes in understandings of authorship and literary labour in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries. Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920 argues that the collaborative novels of this period were instrumental to that reconstruction. More than just a gimmick, these novels (there... more...
Men Beyond Desire
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 28.00This book makes the case that American men want neither marriage nor male friendship but only to be left alone, emotionally and sexually inviolate. more...
The Spiritual History of Ice
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 32.00At the end of the eighteenth century, scientists for the first time demonstrated what medieval and renaissance alchemists had long suspected; ice is not lifeless but vital, a crystalline revelation of vigorous powers. Studied in esoteric and exoterical representations of frozen phenomena, several Romantic figures - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy... more...
Intimacy in America
University of Minnesota Press 2005; US$ 60.00Reading seminal works by Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman, Peter Coviello traces these writers' ambivalences about the idea of an intimate nationality, revealing how race and sexuality were used as vehicles for an assumed coherence. Intimacy in America gives us a new perspective on the... more...









