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  • - Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America
    af University of Wisconsin-Madison) Castronovo, Russ (Dorothy Draheim Professor of English & Dorothy Draheim Professor of English
    385,95 - 774,95 kr.

    Propaganda 1776 reframes the culture of the U.S. Revolution and early Republic, revealing it to be rooted in a vast network of propaganda.

  • af Cody (Professor of English Marrs
    1.026,95 kr.

    In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.

  • - Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age
    af Mitchum (Associate Professor Huehls
    495,95 kr.

    Taking up four different political themes-human rights, the relation between public and private space, racial justice, and environmentalism-After Critique suggests that the ontological forms emerging in contemporary U.S. fiction articulate a version of politics that might successfully evade neoliberal appropriation.

  • - Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time
    af June (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of American Culture Howard
    1.047,95 kr.

    This book studies literary regionalism and it shows that one of the ways we imagine the world is through writing and reading about particular places. It explores how writers are shaped by particular places and how their stories shape our understanding of localities and the globe.

  • af Nathan (Assistant Professor of English Wolff
    987,95 kr.

    Focusing on the Washington political novel of the Gilded Age, circa 1869 to 1900, the volume examines the relationship between literature, politics, and democracy, and considers literature's role in defining and exploring the emotional contours of the political landscape in the nineteenth century.

  • - Risk, Writing, and Revolution in the Global Pacific
    af Michelle (Professor Burnham
    987,95 kr.

    This volume explores the role of the Pacific Ocean in the American Revolution and its influence on early American culture and literature. It studies the transoceanic connections between the Pacific and Atlantic and the political and literary developments that accompanied the period's explosion in global maritime travel.

  • - The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination
    af Nan (Professor of English Goodman
    1.015,95 kr.

    In The Puritan Cosmopolis, Nan Goodman demonstrates how the Puritans were far from an insular coterie that ignored the larger global community. Drawing on letters, diaries, political pamphlets, poetry, and other cultural materials, The Puritan Cosmopolis demonstrates how the Puritan population increasingly saw themselves as global citizens.

  • - American Literature as Cultural Analysis
    af Joel Pfister
    464,95 kr.

    Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America-its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization of power-"ticks." Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical "surveyors" of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much else.

  • - Affect, Irony, and Female Authorship in Interwar America
    af Lisa (Assistant Professor of English Mendelman
    1.047,95 kr.

    Modern Sentimentalism discusses how the iconic modern woman as presented in interwar American literature. It reveals how this literary figure carries the weight of sentiment and how the question of feminine feeling is central to modernism's preoccupations and styles.

  • af Elizabeth (Professor Renker
    946,95 kr.

    Examines the works of a diverse range of realist poets to redefine the significance of poetry to the genre of realism during the postbellum period in American literature.

  • - Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel
    af Jennifer (Associate Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College) Harford Vargas & Associate Professor of English
    388,95 - 964,95 kr.

    Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope.

  • af Ian (Associate Professor Finseth
    1.167,95 kr.

    The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead.

  • - Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett
    af Gregory S. (Professor of English Jay
    1.015,95 kr.

    White Writers, Race Matters explores the popular tradition of white-authored novels about racism in America. What explains their success, and what are their limitations? This study examines these questions through rich case studies combining biography, historical analysis, close reading, and literary theory to map the significance of this genre and its ongoing relevance.

  • af Travis M. (Associate Professor Foster
    1.036,95 kr.

    Studies the role popular literature in the systematic racism present in easy-going activities, ordinary feelings, and casual interactions. The volume uncovers this history of 'racial ordinariness' through various genres such as campus novels, Civil War elegies, regionalist sketches, and gospel sermon.

  • - American Literature as Cultural Analysis
    af Joel (Olin Professor of English Pfister
    1.214,95 kr.

    Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America-its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization of power-"ticks." Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical "surveyors" of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much else.

  • - Black Writers, White Subjects
    af Stephanie (Associate Professor of English Li
    1.068,95 kr.

    Playing in the White brings postwar white life novels back into conversations about the nature of African American literature and the unique expectations imposed upon black texts.

  • - Explaining the Economy in the Early United States
    af Elizabeth (Associate Professor of English Hewitt
    1.042,95 kr.

    Speculative Fictions places Alexander Hamilton at the center of American literary history to consider the important intersections between economics and literature.

  • - Petroleum Culture in the American Century
    af UC Santa Barbara) LeMenager, Stephanie (Associate Professor of English & Associate Professor of English
    509,95 - 1.024,95 kr.

    Drawing on novels, film, and photographs, Living Oil offers a literary and cultural history of modern environmentalism and petroleum in America.

  • - Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
    af Professor of English, University of Kentucky) Clymer & Jeffory A. (Professor of English
    401,95 - 872,95 kr.

    Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, Family Money reveals a shared preoccupation with the financial quandaries emerging from interracial sexuality in nineteenth-century America. At stake, Clymer shows, were the very notions of family and the long-term distribution of wealth in the United States.

  • - Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America
    af Philip (Professor of English, Professor of English & Brown University) Gould
    441,95 - 820,95 kr.

    Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America, dissolving the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility.

  • - U.S. Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence
    af University of Kentucky) Doolen, Andy (Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies & Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
    381,95 - 940,95 kr.

    Andy Doolen's monograph reorients literary history, turning to the neglected Western writings that shaped the distinctive process of U.S. expansionism in the years following the Louisiana Purchase

  • - Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
    af Sarah (Associate Professor of English, Princeton University) Rivett & Associate Professor of English
    463,95 - 677,95 kr.

    Unscripted America reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture.

  • - Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace
    af University of Louisville) Ryan & Susan M. (Associate Professor of English
    435,95 - 1.159,95 kr.

    The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations.

  • - Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism
    af Professor of English, University of British Columbia) Chapman & Mary (Professor of English
    416,95 - 1.134,95 kr.

    In this fascinating cultural history, Mary Chapman demonstrates the importance of the aesthetically innovative print culture produced by US suffragists in the two decades leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment, seven decades after women's rights activists first met at Seneca Falls.

  • - Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature
    af Paul Giles
    471,95 - 1.242,95 kr.

    A sweeping study that spans two continents and over three hundred years of literary history, Antipodean America identifies the surprising affinites between Australian and American literature.

  • af Maria A. (Assistant Professor Windell
    1.042,95 kr.

    This book rethinks sentimentalism by tracing it through US writings set elsewhere in the Americas.

  • - Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature
    af B. V. (Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English Olguin
    1.230,95 kr.

    Violentologies explores how different forms of violence shape identity and political vision in both familiar and unexpected ways using Latina/o writers and performers as case-studies.

  • - Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age
    af Mitchum (Visiting Assistant Professor of English Huehls
    1.214,95 kr.

    Taking up four different political themes-human rights, the relation between public and private space, racial justice, and environmentalism-After Critique suggests that the ontological forms emerging in contemporary U.S. fiction articulate a version of politics that might successfully evade neoliberal appropriation.

  • - The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolano
    af Professor of English, Rutgers-New Brunswick) Lawrence & Jeffrey (Professor of English
    397,95 - 930,95 kr.

    Anxieties of Experience offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature. Rereading a range of canonical works from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass to Roberto Bolano's 2666, it traces the development and interaction of two distinct literary strains in the Americas: the "US literature of experience" and the "Latin American literature of the reader."

  • af Thomas J. (Professor of English Ferraro
    1.064,95 kr.

    A critical study of classic American novels, Transgression and Redemption explores Catholicism in The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, The Professor's House, The Awakening, and The Sun Also Rises.

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