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Imperfect Unions
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 75.00Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black–white binary that informed them in a wide variety of... more...
Delicate Pursuit
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 133.00Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued "discretion", the key concept of this study, in order to avoid censorship. Discretion marks not only the... more...
James' The Ambassadors
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... more...
Labor Pains
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95This book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Maibor reveals how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott delve into notions of equality through this emphasis on labor. In doing so she challenges the traditional view of Emerson as unconcerned with societal issues, and opens the work of Hawthorne and... more...
Revised Lives
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 139.00This book examines self-representation in US culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. more...
Henry James and the Language of Experience
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 32.00For James, experience was a dialectical process that registered and expressed his consciousness of the external world. Collin Meissner shows how James's understanding of the process of consciousness is not simply an aspect of literary form but inherently political, requiring an active engagment with the full complexity of social reality. more...
The Culture of Sentiment
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 124.99This collection of critical essays endeavours to give fuller body and scope to the subject of 19th-century American sentimentality by examining it in light of the so-called "women's culture" and the issue of race. more...
Letters, Fictions, Lives
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 144.99This volume attempts to determine the early influence shared between William Dean Howells and Henry James by reconstructing and evaluating documentary evidence of their literary cross-fertilization. The 151 letters included represent each writer's most significant criticism of the other. more...
The American Civil War
CRC Press 2006; US$ 39.95This anthology brings together a wide variety of both well-known and more obscure writing from and about the Civil War, along with supplementary appendices to facilitate use in courses. The writing includes short fiction, poetry, public addresses, diary entries, song lyrics, and essays from such figures as Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane,... more...
Bohemia in America, 1858?1920
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 67.50American Bohemias explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture. more...









