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  • Willa Cather and Material Culture

    Real-World Writing, Writing the Real World

    de Janis P. Stout, Park Bucker, Robert K. Miller, Jennifer Bradley, Anne Raine, Ann Romines, Michael Schueth, Honor McKitrick Wallace, Deborah Lindsay Williams, Sarah Wilson0, Mary Ann O'Farrell1 ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    A compilation of essays focusing on the significance of material culture to Cather’s work and Cather scholarship.Willa Cather and Material Culture is a collection of 11 new essays that tap into a recent and resurgent interest among Cather scholars in addressing her work and her career through the lens of cultural studies. One of the volume's primary purposes is to demonstrate the extent to which ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Twelve Angry Men

    de Reginald Rose ...
    A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival—featuring an introduction by David MametA blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Why Read Moby-Dick?

    de Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    A “brilliant and provocative” (The New Yorker) celebration of Melville’s masterpiece—from the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's EyeOne of the greatest American novels finds its perfect contemporary champion in Why Read Moby-Dick?, Nathaniel Philbrick’s enlightening and entertaining tour through Melville’s classic. As he did in his National Book ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Brazen Age

    New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia

    de David Reid ...
    A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Plants of Middle-earth

    Botany and Sub-Creation

    de Hazell ...
    A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien’s Middle-earth“Rather than inventing an alien world into which human and familiar characters are introduced, as in science fiction, Tolkien created a natural environment that is also home to ‘supernatural’ beings and elements, as in medieval works like Beowulf. The Shire is always the touchstone to which the hobbits return mentally and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sense of Place and Sense of Planet

    The Environmental Imagination of the Global

    de Ursula K. Heise ...
    Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe

    Edición de Kevin J. Hayes ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

    de Paul Clements ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring Bukowski’s visceral writing of the cultural ordinary and everyday self-narrative. The study considers ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Message of the City

    Dawn Powell’s New York Novels, 1925–1962

    de Patricia E. Palermo ...
    Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York. “From the moment she left behind her harsh upbringing in Mount Gilead, Ohio, and arrived in Manhattan, in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Natural Aristocracy

    History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner

    de Kevin Railey ...
    Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach--which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world--to identify and historicize Faulkner’s authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces that surrounded his life, Railey explores the interrelationships between American history and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Searching for Jim

    Slavery in Sam Clemens's World

    de Terrell Dempsey ...
    Series Libro 1 - Mark Twain and His Circle
    Searching for Jim is the untold story of Sam Clemens and the world of slavery that produced him. Despite Clemens’s remarks to the contrary in his autobiography, slavery was very much a part of his life. Dempsey has uncovered a wealth of newspaper accounts and archival material revealing that Clemens’s life, from the ages of twelve to seventeen, was intertwined with the lives of the slaves around ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • The Sentimental Touch

    The Language of Feeling in the Age of Managerialism

    de Aaron Ritzenberg ...
    Between 1850 and 1940, with the rise of managerial capitalism in the United States, the most powerful businesses ceased to be family owned, instead becoming sprawling organizations controlled by complex bureaucracies. Sentimental literature—work written specifically to convey and inspire deep feeling—does not seem to fit with a swiftly bureaucratizing society. Surprisingly, though, sentimental ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD