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  • Anthologizing Poe

    Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

    by Emron Esplin, Margarida Vale de Gato, Jana L. Argersinger, Fernando González-Moreno, John Gruesser, Michelle Kay Hansen, J. Gerald Kennedy, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Travis Montgomery0, Scott Peeples1, Philip Edward Phillips2, Stephen Rachman3, Margarita Rigal-Aragón4, Christopher Rollason5, Jeffrey A. Savoye6, Takayuki Tatsumi7, Alexandra Urakova8, Harry Lee Poe9 ...
    Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
    This collection explores how anthologizers and editors of Edgar Allan Poe play an integral role in shaping our conceptions of Poe as the author we have come to recognize, revere, and critique today. In the spheres of literature and popular culture, Poe wields more global influence than any other U.S. author. This influence, however, cannot be attributed solely to the quality of Poe’s texts or to ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Black on Black

    Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa

    by John Cullen Gruesser ...
    Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk to Alice Walker's The Color Purple. Combining cutting-edge theory, extensive historical and archival research, and close readings of individual texts, Gruesser reveals the diversity of the African American response to Countee Cullen's ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs

    The Man on the Firing Line

    by John Cullen Gruesser ...
    Writing, publishing, and marketing five politically engaged novels that appeared between 1899 and 1908, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) was among the most prolific African American authors at the turn of the twentieth century. In contrast to his Northern contemporaries Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt, Griggs, as W. E. B. Du Bois remarked, "spoke primarily to the Negro race," using his own ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts

    by Prof John Cullen Gruesser ...
    Winner of the 2019 Patrick F. Quinn Award for the best book on Poe (awarded by the Poe Studies Association)Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century American Counterparts addresses Poe's connections with, critical assessments of, borrowings from, and effect on his literary peers. It situates Poe within his own time and place, paying particular attention to his interactions with, and impact on, ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Hagar’s Daughter

    A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

    by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins ...
    Hagar’s Daughter is Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-02). The novel features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists, including a high-profile murder trial, an abduction plot, and a steady succession of surprises as the young black maid Venus Johnson assumes male clothing to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home

    African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion

    by John Cullen Gruesser ...
    In The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home, John Cullen Gruesser establishes that African American writers at the turn of the twentieth century responded extensively and idiosyncratically to overseas expansion and its implications for domestic race relations. He contends that the work of these writers significantly informs not only African American literary studies but also U.S. political history ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction

    by John Cullen Gruesser ...
    This book highlights detection's malleability by analyzing the works of particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts.It traces the roles that gender, race and empire have played in American detective fiction from Edgar Allan Poe's works through the myriad variations upon them published before 1920 to hard-boiled fiction (the origins of which derive in ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Animals in Classic American Poetry

    How Natural History Inspired Great Verse

    by Mary McAleer Balkun, Margarida Vale de Gato, Aaron Moe, Brian Yothers, Susan L. Roberson, Philip Edward Phillips, Heather Cass White, Calista McRae, Daniel Cross Turner, Thomas C. Gannon ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    In this companion volume to Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen Gruesser brings together leading experts who explore the integral role animals play in American poetry. The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Hindered Hand

    by Sutton E. Griggs ...
    Series series Regenerations
    Between 1899 and 1908, five long works of fiction by the Nashville-based Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs appeared in print in which he examined the interrelationships among race, politics, economics, gender, culture, religion, violence, and empire, making him the most prolific African American novelist at the turn of the twentieth century, a time at which the civil rights and the very ... Read more

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  • Animals in the American Classics

    How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction

    by Susan F. Beegel, John Bird, Deborah Clarke, Robert Donahoo, William Engel, Barbara Heavilin, Stacey Peebles, Philip Edward Phillips, Anthony Reynolds, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Brian Yothers ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    As defined by conservation biologist Thomas Fleishner, natural history is “a practice of intentional, focused receptivity to the more-than-human world . . . one of the oldest continuous human traditions.” Seldom is this idea so clearly reflected as in classic works of American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.John Cullen Gruesser’s edited volume Animals in the American Classics: ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

    by Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren, Caroline Levander, Finnie Coleman, Hanna Wallinger, John Cullen Gruesser, John Ernest, M. Fabi, Andreá Williams0, Robert S. Levine1 ...
    Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Yours for Humanity

    New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

    by John Cyril Barton, Elizabeth Cali, Sabine Engwer, Karin L. Hooks, Courtney Novosat, Colleen O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Valerie Sirenko, Hanna Wallinger, Edlie L. Wong ...
    Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays ... Read more

    $29.69 USD