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  • Secret Histories

    A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship

    The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar ... Leer más

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  • Il giardino davanti casa

    L'americana Prudence Wilkin ha l'unico desiderio di un giardino davanti casa; ma rimasta vedova ad appena un anno dalle nozze deve farsi carico della numerosa famiglia del marito italiano fatta di perdigiorno e di approfittatori. ... Leer más

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  • Per il Maggiore

    1868, tre anni dopo la fine della guerra di Secessione. In un piccolo villaggio del Nord Carolina vive una tranquilla comunità la cui serenità è sconvolta dall'apparizione di uno strano personaggio: un giovane artista dal passato ingoto. ... Leer más

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    Constance Fenimore Woolson «Era libera, era indipendente, aveva successo, davvero molto successo» (Henry James). Due racconti, malinconici, su donne artiste di fronte alla loro faticosa indipendenza. ... Leer más

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  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Leer más

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    Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious.In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that ... Leer más

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