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  • Separate Spheres No More

    Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930

    by Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Katharine Rodier, Karen S. Nulton, Karen E. Waldron, Dawn Keetley, Debra Bernardi, Jennifer Costello Brezina, Mary Louise Kete, Marianne Noble, Denise D. Knight, Ms. Darby Lewes, Frederick Newberry, Ms. Lisette Nadine Gibson ...
    Examines the intersection of male and female spheres in American literatureAlthough they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of ... Read more

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  • Dark Hollow

    by Anna Katharine Green ...
    Delve into the depths of psychological suspense in this gripping mystery from Anna Katharine Green, author of The Leavenworth Case. An innkeeper is detained, tried and ultimately executed for a horrifying murder. Many years later, a mysterious woman pays a visit to the judge who presided over the case, identifying herself as the wife of the executed prisoner—and insisting that he was wrongfully ... Read more

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  • David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

    A Reader's Guide

    by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a "three-stage rocket to the future," a work "equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life," while Time Magazine included Infinite ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • On Late Style

    Music and Literature Against the Grain

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists."These studies . . . buzz with excitement and intelligence and demonstrate...the extraordinary range of Said’s intellectual interests.” —Frank Kermode, London Review of Books**Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, ... Read more

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  • Due Considerations

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series."[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."—The Los Angeles TimesHere Updike considers ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Legacy of David Foster Wallace

    Edited by Samuel Cohen, Lee Konstantinou ...
    Series series New American Canon
    Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Canadians Are Not Americans

    Myths and Literary Traditions

    by Katherine Morrison ...
    A transplanted American, Katherine Morrison has long been fascinated with the attempts of Canadians to articulate how their culture differs from that of their southern neighbor. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Morrison takes the reader through the historical, political and sociological milieux of Canada and the United States. Comparing mythologies, she examines national views ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Grace Paley

    Illuminating Dark Lives

    by Jacqueline Taylor ...
    Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories.Drawing on interviews with the author, as well as the stories themselves, Taylor ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Bishop

    Her Poetics of Loss

    by Susan McCabe ...
    Elizabeth Bishop represents a full-scale examination of Bishop's work—poetry, prose, and selected unpublished material—to reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self as fluid and unfixed and, at the same time, how gender and sexual identity inform the experience of loss in the act of writing. Susan McCabe argues that Bishop counters modernist claims for an autonomous art ... Read more

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  • My Life on the Mississippi

    or Why I am Not Mark Twain

    by Richard Bissell ...
    “Because I myself write books about the Mississippi River, because I used to be a pilot on the Mississippi River . . . the critics for twenty-three years have been calling me ‘a modern Mark Twain.’ Now is this fair?”So begins a skillful, and frequently hilarious, comparison of Mark Twain and the author, Richard Bissell. Part commentary and part autobiography, Bissell deftly interweaves family ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Scars to Prove It

    The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction

    by Warren ...
    “When the first cannon sounded over Charleston Harbor in 1861, it announced the beginning of an American literary phenomenon. Readers North and South hungered for imaginative writing about the escalating war, and canny publishers were swift to deliver. . . . Today even the most conservative estimate would place the total number of Civil War novels at well over one thousand, and this figure does ... Read more

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  • Such a Rare Thing

    The Art of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio

    by Lindsay ...
    An important contribution to the field of American literary studies“Groundbreaking work in Anderson scholarship in particular and, on the wider scene, in American literary studies.”—Robert Dunne, author of A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson’s Early FictionThis critical study of Sherwood Anderson’s most famous and perhaps most widely taught work, Winesburg, ... Read more

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