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Turning the Pages of American Girlhood
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 45.00Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change, whether through church societies, benevolent organizations, educational institutions or political groups. By 1900, however, the socialization... more...
The Other Shore
University of California Press 2012; US$ 29.95In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the... more...
Pioneers Passionate Ladies and Private Eyes
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 108.00Despite efforts of contemporary reformers to curb the availability of dime novels, series books, and paperbacks, Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes reveals how many readers used them as means of resistance and how fictional characters became models for self-empowerment. These literary genres, whose value has long been underestimated, provide... more...
The Art of Sympathy in Fiction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 149.00By taking an interdisciplinary approach ? with methods drawn from narratology, aesthetics, social psychology, education, and the empirical study of literature ? The Art of Sympathy in Fiction will interest scholars in a variety of fields. Its focus is the sympathetic effects of stories, and the possible ways these feelings can contribute to what... more...
Violet America
University of Iowa Press 2003; US$ 39.95Violet America takes on the long habit among literary historians and critics of thinking about large segments of American literary production in terms of regionalism. Jason Arthur argues that classifying broad swaths of American literature as regionalist or “local color” writing brings with it a set of assumptions, informed by longstanding... more...
Evangelicals and the Arts in Fiction
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 45.00This book is an exploration of how the relationship of evangelicals to the arts has been portrayed in fiction for the last century. The author argues that evangelicals are consistently seen as enemies of the arts by non-evangelical writers. The artist (typically represented by a literal artist, occasionally by a scientist or reluctant messiah) typically... more...
The Detective in Fiction
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1978; 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. In CliffsNotes on The Detective in Fiction, you explore the world of science fiction writing, complete... more...
Emerging Afrikan Survivals
Routledge 2003; US$ 128.00This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and applies that theory to three novels: Invisible Man , Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville Incident . more...
Racial Blasphemies
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 184.00Racial Blasphemies , using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that we should consider religious language as a special kind of language - a language of curse words - that furiously communicates not theology or spirituality... more...
Reading the Text That Isn't There
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 147.00Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another. more...









