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Tomboys
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 30.95Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the “girl power” movement of the 1990’s, Tomboys is the first full-length critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. Michelle Abate uncovers the origins, charts the trajectory, and traces the literary and cultural transformations... more...
The Street Was Mine
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 115.00This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Street Was Mine looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler ( The Big... more...
Violent Affect
University of Nebraska Press 2008; US$ 45.00Countering previous studies of violent images based on representational and, consequently, moralistic assumptions, which, the author argues, inevitably reinforce the very violence they critique. He explains how violent images work upon the world. more...
Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists. more...
Dangerous Potential of Reading
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 154.00This book examines the role of literacy, reading and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature. 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...
Afterimages of Slavery
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 40.00Since the election of President Barack Obama, many pundits have declared that we are living in a "post-racial America," a culture where the legacy of slavery has been erased. The new essays in this collection, however, point to a resurgence of the theme of slavery in American cultural artifacts from the late twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.... more...
Rethinking Postmodernism(s)
Editions Rodopi 2008; US$ 70.00Rethinking Postmodernism(s) revisits three historical sites of American literary postmodernism: the early postmodernism of Thomas Pynchons V. (1961), the emancipatory postmodernism of Toni Morrisons Beloved (1987), and the late or post-postmodernism of Jonathan Safran Foers Everything Is Illuminated (2002). For the first time, it... more...
Conflicting Stories
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 36.00This study examines the work of a wide range of American women writers at the turn of the 20th century, and looks at issues of race and gender in a firm historical context. more...
The Triumph of the Thriller
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 24.95There?s been a revolution in American popular fiction. The writers who dominated the bestseller lists a generation ago with blockbuster novels about movie stars and exotic foreign lands have been replaced by a new generation writing a new kind of bestseller, one that hooks readers with crime, suspense, and ever-increasing violence. Patrick Anderson,... more...









