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New North American Studiesby Winfred Siemerling
Routledge 2004; US$ 35.95In this original and ground-breaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of identity and recognition in the meaning of 'American.' more...
Making Love Modernby Nina Miller
Oxford University Press 1999; US$ 45.00In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways that were hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table, and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Enda St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colorful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all. Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers... more...
New England's Crises and Cultural Memoryby John McWilliams; Albert Gelpi; Ross Posnock
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00In this magisterial study, McWilliams traces the development of New England's influential cultural identity. He considers a range of writing including George Bancroft's History of the United States, the political essays of Samuel Adams, the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the poetry of Robert Lowell. more...
Margaret Fuller, Volume Iby Charles Capper
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 30.00Part of a two-volume biography of Margaret Fuller, who was recognized as a key social and literary figure of 19th-century America. This book deals with her childhood and education, her teaching, and her involvement with the Transcendentalists and their leader, Ralph Waldo Emerson. more...
The American Idealby Peter Carafiol
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 120.00This monograph argues that the institution of American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary view of history and narrative and an unrealistic view of America itself. The author also examines contemporary debates about the methods and status of literary history in general. more...
Canons and Contextsby Paul Lauter
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 38.00The essays in this volume represent the author's effort to reconstruct American literature by establishing a theory of "canonical criticism", which aims to open up the canon of American literature to the works of women, minorities and working-class writers. more...
High Resolutionby Henry S. Sussman
Oxford University Press 1989; US$ 108.00This book combines literary theory and close textual readings of works by Hawthorne, Melville, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound and Italo Calvino to explore the socio-political correlatives to literary studies. more...
American Bloomsburyby Susan Cheever
Simon & Schuster 2006; US$ 11.99Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden, and Little Women. Rendering in full color the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of these volatile and vulnerable geniuses, Cheever's dynamic narrative reminds us that, while these literary heroes now seem secure of their spots in the canon, they were once considered avant-garde, bohemian types, at odds with the establishment. These remarkable men and women were so improbably concentrated... more...
Frank Norrisby W.M. Frohock
University of Minnesota Press 1968; US$ 36.00Frank Norris - American Writers 68 was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
The Origins of American Literature Studiesby Elizabeth Renker
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 29.00An original investigation into the history and development of American literature as an academic discipline. more...









