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Arab American Literature and Culture
Universitätsverlag Winter 2013; US$ 49.60Hauptbeschreibung This volume focuses on the literature and culture of Arabs living in the United States who have gained new prominence after 9/11. For a proper assessment of their situation it seeks to provide basic information on the history and transculturation of immigrants from different parts of the Arab world. The contributions, which result... more...
The Red Thirst (Dark Hunter 4)
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 7.99A six-book series of supernatural horror scares that will hook even the most reluctant readers. The Dark Hunter Mr Blood and his young assistants Edgar and Mary take on a series of terrifying mysteries, dealing with ghosts, vampires, werewolves and even weirder threats. Dark, scary and gripping, these are high-quality, fully accessible stories for... more...
You Would Not Believe What Watches
LSU Press 2013; US$ 29.95This volume is the first of a planned series of casebooks to be published by the Cormac McCarthy Society. It is an expanded and updated version of the fourth volume of The Cormac McCarthy Journal, originally released in 2006 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the novel. The original edition consisted of papers and lectures given at the conference,... more...
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 14.95'Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes,' Emerson wrote in Nature, his statement of the principles of transcendentalism. 'I become a transparent eyeball.' Nature, published in 1836 when Emerson was thirty-three, is collected here with his book of observations on... more...
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Joshua James Press 1922; US$ 5.99Featuring the gifts of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain, this collection of the Best American Humorous Short Stories will delight and intrigue. more...
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 40.00This wide-ranging comparative study reassesses the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within its transamerican and multilingual contexts. Anna Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent from Latin American and Caribbean literatures that shaped this most formative period of literary production in the United States. more...
Sweet Freedom's Song
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 84.99Sweet Freedom's Song' is a celebration and critical exploration of the complicated musical, cultural and political roles played by the song 'America' over the 250 years. Popularly known as 'My Country Tis of Thee' - and as 'God Save the King/Queen' before that - this song is arguably the most important political song in US history. more...
American Lazarus
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 37.99The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of colour in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the dust." This book explores the means by which the very first Black and Indian authors rose up to... more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00This introduction delves behind the myth of Emily Dickinson to present her in the context of her time. more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00A guide to Stowe's long career as a professional author, with detailed readings of Uncle Toms Cabin. more...









