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  • William T. Vollmann

    A Critical Companion

    by Georg Bauer, Carla Bolte, Aaron Chandler, Heather Corcoran, John K. Cox, Okla Elliott, James Franco, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Glawogger, Mariya Gusev, Joshua Jensen, Priscilla Juvelis, Miles Liebtag, Larry McCaffery, Françoise Palleau-Papin, Melissa Petro, Jordan A. Rothacker, Bryan Santin, Geoffrey D. Smith, Mary Austin Speaker, Michael K. Walonen, Buell Wisner ...
    "This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical CompanionThe ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism

    A Literary History, 1945–2008

    by Bryan M. Santin ...
    Series Book 186 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics

    Edited by Bryan M. Santin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Surveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel. It also shows how those political phenomena were shaped in turn by long-form prose fiction. The book is made up of three major sections. The first section considers philosophical ideologies and broad political movements ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • CULTURE AS HISTORY

    by warren susman ...
    Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Twilight of the Middle Class

    Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

    by Andrew Hoberek ...
    In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Approaches to American Cultural Studies

    Edited by Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper ...
    Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts.Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers

    Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

    by Arthur Redding ...
    The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism.In Turncoats, Traitors, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Realism for the Masses

    Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947

    by Chris Vials ...
    Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s and that the left social movements of the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Reading America

    Citizenship, Democracy, and Cold War Literature

    by Kristin L. Matthews ...
    Series series Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
    During the Cold War, the editor of Time magazine declared, “A good citizen is a good reader.” As postwar euphoria faded, a wide variety of Americans turned to reading to understand their place in the changing world. Yet, what did it mean to be a good reader? And how did reading make you a good citizen?In Reading America, Kristin L. Matthews puts into conversation a range of political, educational, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park

    Activism, Culture, and American Studies

    by Paul Lauter, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as a wholly subsidiary academic program that loosely combined the study of American history, literature ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • American Modernism and Depression Documentary

    by Jeff Allred ...
    Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been an ample amount of critical inquiry on Depression ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900 - 1950

    Edited by John T. Matthews ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholarsAllows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal ... Read more

    $46.00 USD