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  • Dwellings of Enchantment

    Writing and Reenchanting the Earth

    by Bénédicte Meillon, Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Claire Cazajous-Aujé, Antonio Cuadrado-Fernandez, Yves-Charles Grandjeat, Wendy Harding, Linda Hogan, Charles Holdefer, Alan G. Johnson, Tom Lynch0, Joshua Mabie1, Jessica Maufort2, Noémie Moutel3, Rachel Hoscin Nisbet4, Randal Roorda5, Anne Simon6, Frédérique Spill7, Françoise Besson8, Joni Adamson9, Carmen Flys-Junquera0 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place

    by Wendy Harding ...
    From the moment the first English-speaking explorers and settlers arrived on the North American continent, many have described its various locations and environments as empty. Indeed, much of American national history and culture is bound up with the idea that parts of the landscape are empty and thus open for colonization, settlement, economic improvement, claim staking, taming, civilizing, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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  • Willa Cather

    Four Great Novels?O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia

    by Willa Cather ...
    This volume contains four great works (O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, My Ántonia, and One of Ours) by the author who created the first autonomous and successful women’s heroes in American literature. Willa Cather is one of America’s most treasured writers. Her childhood in the woodlands of Virginia and on the prairies of Nebraska formed the inspiration for many of her novels, and her devotion ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Henry David Thoreau

    A Life

    by Laura Dassow Walls ...
    This acclaimed biography captures the inspiring life and philosophy of an influential American thinker: "a moving portrait of a brilliant, complex man" ( The New York Times).Henry David Thoreau's attempt to "live deliberately" in the woods outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, has inspired individualists since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Understanding Pat Conroy

    by Catherine Seltzer ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    An insightful look at the life and work of the extraordinary popular Southern writer.Pat Conroy's novels and memoirs have indelibly shaped the image of the South in the American imagination. His writing has rendered the physical landscape of the South Carolina lowcountry familiar to legions of readers, and has staked out a more complex geography as well—one defined by domestic trauma, racial ... Read more

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  • T.S. Eliot Materialized: Literal Meaning and Embodied Truth

    by G. Atkins ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Great Plains Literature

    by Linda Ray Pratt ...
    Series series Discover the Great Plains
    Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived there, the attempts of settlers to conquer the land, and the tragic losses and successes of settlement that are still shaping our modern world of environmental threat, ethnic and racial hostilities, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

    Gender, Culture, and Nation Building

    by Debra J. Rosenthal ...
    Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.Rosenthal ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Critics at Work

    Interviews 1993-2003

    Edited by Jeffrey J. Williams ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies, gay and lesbian studies, philosophy, and other fields. It provides informative, timely, and often provocative commentary on a broad range of topics, from the state of theory today and the prospects for ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Republic in Print

    Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770-1870

    by Trish Loughran ...
    "In the beginning, all the world was America."-John LockeIn the beginning, everything was America, but where did America begin? In many narratives of American nationalism (both popular and academic), the United States begins in print-with the production, dissemination, and consumption of major printed texts like Common Sense , the Declaration of Independence, newspaper debates over ratification, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Racial Worldmaking

    The Power of Popular Fiction

    by Mark C. Jerng ...
    When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust practices of racial inequality. Racial Worldmaking argues that we do not just see race. We are taught ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Bret Easton Ellis

    Underwriting the Contemporary

    by G. Colby ...
    Series series American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
    This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary culture, which offers new paths of understanding and ways of critiquing the contemporary ... Read more

    $49.99 USD