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The Plight of Feeling
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00American novels written in the wake of the Revolution overflow with self-conscious theatricality and impassioned excess. In The Plight of Feeling , Julia A. Stern shows that these sentimental, melodramatic, and gothic works can be read as an emotional history of the early republic, reflecting the hate, anger, fear, and grief that tormented the Federalist... more...
Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths
Scarecrow Press 2008; US$ 44.99Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths provides a social history of girls' series fiction in America from the mid-19th century through the early 21st century. Carpan examines popular series, sub-genres, themes, and characters found in approximately 100 popular series, noting how such books reflect or subvert the culture of the era in which they were produced. more...
Dictionary of American Young Adult Fiction, 1997-2001
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 116.00Young adult readers have special needs and concerns, and librarians have become increasingly interested in selecting books suitable for them. This reference provides information about 290 books for young adults. These books received major awards between 1997 and 2001, reflect the voices of 242 different authors, and range from new to familiar themes.||Included... more...
Deleuze and American Literature
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 85.00Bourassa demonstrates what happens when the set of concepts developed by Deleuze come into contact with the complex and philosophically problematic worlds of William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton and Ralph Ellison. more...
Visiting Elizabeth
Dundurn 2004; US$ 17.95Villeneuve harnesses the power of two languages in a story that pulls the reader through the streets of Montreal and the recesses of Arianes mind. more...
Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 40.00In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America. The lens reflects both ways, and we learn as much about the literature in the context of contemporary legal concerns as we do about the legal ideologies that the fiction... more...
The American Historical Romance
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 44.00This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It examines the historical novel's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history; with the rise of literary regionalism; with the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance;... more...
The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 30.00In this book John Limon examines the various ways American authors have approached the writing of fiction in an age increasingly dominated by science. more...
ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today
Boydell & Brewer 2009; US$ 29.95This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the new generation of African novelists is remarkably different in vision, style, and worldview from the older generation. The contention is that the older generation novelists who more...
Boys at Home
University of Tennessee Press 2009; US$ 32.00In this groundbreaking book, Ken Parille seeks to do for nineteenth-century boys what the past three decades of scholarship have done for girls: show how the complexities of the fiction and educational materials written about them reflect the lives they lived. While most studies of nineteenth-century boyhood have focused on post-Civil War male... more...









