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  • Mencken

    A Life

    by Fred Hobson ...
    Ever in control, H. L. Mencken contrived that future generations would see his life as he desired them to. He even wrote Happy Days, Newspaper Days, and other books to fit the pictures he wanted: first, the carefree Baltimore boy; then, the delighted, exuberant critic of American life.But he only told part of the truth. Over the past twenty-five years, vital collections of the writer's papers have ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Off the Rim

    Basketball and Other Religions in a Carolina Childhood

    by Fred Hobson ...
    Series Book 1 - Sports and American Culture
    “Why should a particular game, played with a round ball by twenty-year-olds in short pants often hundreds of miles away, mean so much to me, since I seem to have so little to gain or lose by its outcome?” Fred Hobson thus begins Off the Rim, his narrative of college basketball and society, of growing up and not growing up. He seeks the answer to this question by delving into the particulars of his ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Faulkner and the Politics of Reading

    by Karl F. Zender, Fred Hobson ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of Faulkner’s achievement. Sympathetically acknowledging the need to decenter the canon, Zender’s searching interrogation of current theory clears a breathing space for Faulkner and his readers between the fustier ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Race, Theft, and Ethics

    Property Matters in African American Literature

    by Lovalerie King, Fred Hobson ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which human value became intricately connected with property ownership in American culture, even as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Serpent in Eden

    H. L. Mencken and the South

    by Fred C. Hobson Jr. ...
    The appearance in 1920 of H. L. Mencken’s scathing essay about the intellectual and cultural impoverishment of the South, “The Sahara of the Bozart”, set off a firestorm of reaction in the region that continued unabated for much of the next decade. In Serpent in Eden, Mencken scholar Fred Hobson examines Mencken’s love-hate relationship with the South. He explores not only Mencken’s savage ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South

    Edited by Fred Hobson, Barbara Ladd ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South--global, multicultural, plural: more Souths than South--that would not have been embraced two or three decades ago, and it similarly ... Read more

    $128.69 USD

  • South-Watching

    Selected Essays by Gerald W. Johnson

    by Gerald W. Johnson ...
    Series series Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Culture
    Gerald W. Johnson of North Carolina and Baltimore was one of the most prominent American journalists of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding essayists of any age. The author of some three dozen books of history, biography, and commentary on American politics and culture, he was an editorial writer for the Baltimore Sunpapers from 1926 to 1943, a contributing editor of the New Republic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    by Adena Spingarn ...
    Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

    Edited by Timothy Parrish ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Within the Circle

    An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

    Edited by Angelyn Mitchell ...
    Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn ... Read more

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  • American Literature from 1600 Through the 1850s

    by Adam Augustyn ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to World Literature
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