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  • - 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.

  • - 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

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • - 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.

  • 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.

  • - 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.

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