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  • Empire’s Proxy

    American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines

    by Meg Wesling ...
    Series Book 1 - American Literatures Initiative
    Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesIn the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the Spanish-American War. Motivated by President McKinley’s project of “benevolent assimilation,” they established a school system that centered on English language and American literature to advance the ... Read more

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  • Flappers and Philosophers

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    The stories are set during the Roaring Twenties and explore the experiences and desires of the young men and women of the era, particularly the "flappers" who challenged traditional gender roles and social norms.The collection includes some of Fitzgerald's most iconic stories, such as "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," which tells the story of a young woman who transforms herself from a social misfit into a ... Read more

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  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    by Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Book of the Month

    Sixty Years of Books in American Life

    by Al Silverman ...
    This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across America find their next favorite book.In this comprehensive anthology compiled from the Club's monthly News, ... Read more

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  • Jack London

    An American Life

    by Earle Labor ...
    A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved worksJack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his ... Read more

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  • Concerto for the Left Hand

    Disability and the Defamiliar Body

    by Michael Davidson ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    "Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way, making Concerto for the Left Hand one of the smartest books to date in disability studies."---Lennard Davis ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Rewiring the Real

    In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    Series Book 12 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have ... Read more

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  • The History of Science Fiction

    by Adam Roberts ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material ... Read more

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

    Edited by Robert S. Levine ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fiction and poetry, including neglected works ripe for rediscovery. The volume includes essays on such new ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction

    by Helane Androne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • James M. Cain

    Hard-Boiled Mythmaker

    by David Madden, Kristopher Mecholsky, Max Allan Collins ...
    James M. Cain wrote some of the grittiest novels in American literature, including such classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and Mildred Pierce. James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker is a critical overview of the author's life, work, and legacy. An updated and expanded edition of two of David Madden's scholarly works on Cain, this new book improves upon the previous works ... Read more

    $72.89 USD