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Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural...

Author: Evan Brier
ISBN: 9781609389390
Format: Paperback
$224.40

Describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. This book...  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484959
Format: Paperback
$82.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781612499420
Format: Paperback
$77.00

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Conversations with Ben Okri

Conversations with Ben Okri

Author: Vanessa Guignery
ISBN: 9781496851567
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Collects twenty-six interviews that range from 1986 to 2023 and reflect the international resonance of Nigerian...  Read More >>

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production

Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural...

Author: Azariah Alfante
ISBN: 9781684484966
Format: Hardback
$266.99

In this elegantly-written study, Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals,...  Read More >>

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781612499413
Format: Hardback
$169.40

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Conversations with Ben Okri

Conversations with Ben Okri

Author: Vanessa Guignery
ISBN: 9781496851550
Format: Hardback
$185.90

Over three decades of interviews with the innovative Nigerian author and first Black African winner of the Booker...  Read More >>

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary...

Author: David Greven
ISBN: 9780813951027
Format: Paperback
$104.28

Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race....  Read More >>

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary Influence

All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary...

Author: David Greven
ISBN: 9780813951010
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Explores the English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race....  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse

Author: Markus Wierschem
ISBN: 9781611864823
Format: Paperback
$112.20

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The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

Author: Conrad Steel
ISBN: 9781609389314
Format: Paperback
$244.20

Shows how the history of poetry - with its particular formal affordances, and the particular hopes and fears we...  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in America, 1909-1964

Flying Adventurers: Juvenile Aviation Series Books in...

Author: David K. Vaughan
ISBN: 9781476688787
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Heroes with a Hundred Names: Mythology and Folklore in the Early Fiction of Robert Penn Warren

Heroes with a Hundred Names: Mythology and Folklore...

Author: Leverett Butts
ISBN: 9781476684598
Format: Paperback
$93.50

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Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and Legacy

Jules Verne Lives!: Essays on His Works and Legacy

Author: Gary Westfahl
ISBN: 9781476687735
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Offers a fresh examination of the works of Jules Verne, the pioneering and enduringly popular science fiction writer....  Read More >>

The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary American and British Crime Fiction

The Place It Was Done: Location and Community in Contemporary...

Author: Šárka Bubíková ,  Olga Roebuck
ISBN: 9781476687773
Format: Paperback
$93.50

Locations play an important role in every story, but in British and American contemporary crime fiction, they are...  Read More >>

The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity in Six American Novels

The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity...

Author: Jeff Morgan
ISBN: 9781476685656
Format: Paperback
$77.00

An exploration of the possibilities of intercultural training through literature, especially related to collegiate...  Read More >>

Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays

Author: Charles D. Augello
ISBN: 9781476690704
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in Speculative Utopias

Disability in Wonderland: Health and Normativity in...

Author: Amanda Martin Sandino
ISBN: 9781476683034
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Spanning from Lewis Carroll’s 1865 Alice in Wonderland to Jordan Peele’s 2019 film Us, this examination of the wonderland...  Read More >>

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William Powell and the Classic Film Series

In Search of The Thin Man: Dashiell Hammett, William...

Author: Philip Zwerling
ISBN: 9781476686578
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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Nordic Sagas as Children's Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures

Nordic Sagas as Children's Literature: Victorian and...

Author: Velma Bourgeois Richmond
ISBN: 9781476691633
Format: Paperback
$127.60

Examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children’s literature that they inspired,...  Read More >>

A Tale Told by a Machine: The AI Narrator in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels

A Tale Told by a Machine: The AI Narrator in Contemporary...

Author: Heather Duerre Humann
ISBN: 9781476689326
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Investigates key questions that arise from the use of AI narrators. The book describes how these narratives challenge...  Read More >>

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long Nineteenth Century

Fashion Nation: Picturing the United States in the Long...

Author: Sandra Tomc
ISBN: 9780472074891
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In the late nineteenth century, the United States was known internationally as a place full of gaudiness and glitter....  Read More >>

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from...

Author: Douglas Dowland
ISBN: 9780813950846
Format: Paperback
$77.88

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>

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