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    Beach Reading

    A Literary and Cultural History

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp, drizzly November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

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  • Beach Reading

    A Literary and Cultural History

    A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp, drizzly November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Between the Novel and the News

    The Emergence of American Women's Writing

    While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn of the twentieth century, she offers a comprehensive reassessment of writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Adulthood and Other Fictions

    American Literature and the Unmaking of Age

    While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological age in social and political life. Over the course of the century, age was added to ... Read more

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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and placeCharlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman’s place on its ear, this finely crafted essay ... Read more

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