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The Trial of Curiosity
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 70.00In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of both brothers, Posnock is the first to place them in a rich web of... more...
Philip Roth's Rude Truth
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 23.95Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 25.00A comprehensive introduction to novelist and critic Ralph Ellison and his masterpiece Invisible Man. more...
Henry James and the Father Question
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Taylor examines the nature of both men's engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. more...
Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 32.00In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the western American past. Handley examines works of historiography, as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others. more...
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00Esteve examines crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve analyses the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes. more...
Henry James and Queer Modernity
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 51.00In Henry James and Queer Modernity, Eric Haralson examines far-reaching changes in gender politics and the emergence of modern male homosexuality as depicted in the writings of Henry James and three authors who were greatly influenced by him: Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway. more...
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 28.00Focusing on key works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige and some degree of cultural recognition. This book is the first extended treatment of a genre, realism, central to our understanding of American literature. more...
Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 37.00In Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, Peter Stoneley looks at how women fictionalised for the girl reader ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Covering a wide range of works and writers, this book will be of interest to cultural and literary scholars alike. more...
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 37.00Examining the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, Kerkering tells the story of how poetry helped define America as a nation before helping to define America into distinct racial categories. Through formal literary effects, national and racial identities become related elements of a single literary history. more...









