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Literary Cultures of the Civil War

By Jane Schultz (contributor)

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9780820349602 | Univ of Georgia Pr, August 15, 2016, cover price $44.95

Ecosickness in Contemporary U.s. Fiction: Environment and Affect

By Heather Houser

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9780231165143 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 3, 2014, cover price $55.00

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9780231165150 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 7, 2016, cover price $30.00

Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism

By Paul Young

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9780813563824 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 27, 2016, cover price $90.00

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9780813563817 | Rutgers Univ Pr, July 27, 2016, cover price $27.95

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature

A survey of American literature analyzes its social and historical contexts, assessing American literature in terms of both its European roots and its uniquely American institutions and attitudes

By Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland

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9780670835928 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A survey of American literature analyzes its social and historical contexts, assessing American literature in terms of both its European roots and its uniquely American institutions and attitudes

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9781138642065 | Reprint edition (Routledge, April 7, 2016), cover price $29.95

9780140144352 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1992), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A survey of American literature analyzes its social and historical contexts, assessing American literature in terms of both its European roots and its uniquely American institutions and attitudes

Tales of Berlin in American Literature Up to the 21st Century

Product Description: Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteenth-century, postwar and contemporary transatlantic imagology. Over various periods, Berlin has been a tenuous space for American claims to cultural heritage and to real geographic space in Europe, symbolizing the ultimate evil and the power of redemption...read more

By Joshua Parker

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9789004312081 | Rodopi Bv Editions, March 17, 2016, cover price $161.00 | About this edition: Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteenth-century, postwar and contemporary transatlantic imagology.

American Tantalus: Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture

Product Description: American Tantalus argues that modern Us fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation. This keyword might seem commonplace; thesauruses, certainly, often lump it in with tease and torment in their general inventories of desire...read more

By Andrew Warnes

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9781623561079 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 23, 2014, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: American Tantalus argues that modern US fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation.

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9781501319624 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 21, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: American Tantalus argues that modern Us fictions often grow preoccupied by tantalisation.

Literature and the Conservative Ideal

By Mark Zunac (editor)

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9781498512381 | Lexington Books, April 4, 2016, cover price $85.00

The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Toni Morrison. Accessible to students and academics alike, this Companion surveys the critical landscape of a major field and lays the foundations for future studies.

By Ezra Tawil (editor)

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9781107048768 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2016, cover price $89.99

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9781107625983 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2016, cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

How Myth Became History: Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands

Product Description: The myth of Texas origin often begins at the Alamo. This story is based on ideology rather than on truth, yet ideology is the foundation for the U.S. American cultural memory that underwrites official history. The Alamo, as a narrative of national progress, supports the heroic acts that have created the âLone Star State,â a unified front of U...read more

By John E. Dean

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9780816532421 | Univ of Arizona Pr, March 17, 2016, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The myth of Texas origin often begins at the Alamo.

Uses and Abuses of Moses: Literary Representations Since the Enlightenment

By Theodore Ziolkowski

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9780268045029 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, March 15, 2016, cover price $60.00

The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

By Harold Bloom

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9780812997828 | Spiegel & Grau, May 12, 2015, cover price $35.00

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9780812987461 | Reprint edition (Spiegel & Grau, February 9, 2016), cover price $20.00

Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century

By Stephanie LeMenager

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9780199899425 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 22, 2014, cover price $53.00

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9780190461973 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 1, 2016, cover price $24.95

Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature

By Giorgio Mariani

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9780252039751 | Univ of Illinois Pr, December 7, 2015, cover price $55.00

Family and Kinship in the United States: Cultural Perspectives on Familial Belonging

By David Rose (editor)

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9783631654972 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 5, 2015, cover price $72.95

Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses

Product Description: American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots. But, as Paul Grimstad shows, the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit of earlier experiments in American literature...read more

By Paul Grimstad

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9780199874071 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 26, 2013, cover price $73.00 | About this edition: American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots.

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9780190270049 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something means, look to fruits rather than roots.

Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination

Product Description: Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors, configurations, parameters, and articulations of U...read more

By Kathy-ann Tan

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9780814341407 | Wayne State Univ Pr, December 7, 2015, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging.

Say It Hot: Industrial Strength: Essays, Reviews and Interviews

Product Description: Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics. A companion volume to Say It Hot, these essays are brutally honest and acutely intelligent...read more

By Joseph D. Haske (editor), Earle Labor (other contributor) and Eric Miles Williamson

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9781680030020 | Texas Review Pr, November 13, 2015, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Say It Hot Volume II: Industrial Strength is a collection of essays on American poets, fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and issues of interest to artists and academics.

A History of American Civil War Literature

By Coleman Hutchinson (editor)

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9781107109728 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2015, cover price $89.99

American Wild Zones: Space, Experience, Consciousness

Product Description: The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardener’s and Elaine Showalter’s), the term’s applicability has been significantly enlarged...read more

By Jacek Partyka (editor)

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9783631659588 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, October 7, 2015, cover price $72.95 | About this edition: The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.

A Passion for Getting It Right: Essays and Appreciations in Honor of Michael J. ColacurcioÂs 50 Years of Teaching

Product Description: For 50 years Michael J. Colacurcio has been a leader in the criticism of early and antebellum American literature. In The Province of Piety, New Essays on The Scarlet Letter, Doctrine and Difference, and Godly Letters, as well as editions and often-reprinted reviews and essays, Dr...read more

By Carol M. Bensick (editor)

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9781433128936, titled "A Passion for Getting It Right: Essays and Appreciations in Honor of Michael J. Colacurcioâs 50 Years of Teaching" | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 28, 2015, cover price $108.95 | About this edition: For 50 years Michael J.

Time, Tense, and American Literature: When Is Now?

Product Description: In Time, Tense, and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place. This book argues that key texts in the archive of American literature are inconsistent in their retrospective status, ricocheting between past, present and future...read more

By Cindy Weinstein

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9781107099876 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 9, 2015, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: In Time, Tense, and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place.

Imagined Frontiers: Contemporary America and Beyond

By Carl Abbott

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9780806148366 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 10, 2015, cover price $19.95

Thug Notes: A Street-Smart Guide to Classic Literature

By Sweets

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9781101873045 | Vintage Books, August 18, 2015, cover price $14.95

Maintaining a Place: Conditions of Metaphor in Modern American Literature: Essays and Poems in Honour of Ron Callan

Product Description: This international collection of critical and creative work offers compelling responses to the specifics of `tradition' and `place' in the face of formal and thematic challenges. Pointing to the ongoing transatlantic influence exerted by the American poetic tradition on contemporary Irish writers, and responding to current developments in literary studies, it includes new poetry by established poets working in Ireland and the US...read more

By Fionnula Dillane (editor), Maria Stuart (editor) and Fionnghuala Sweeney (editor)

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9781906359843 | Univ College Dublin Pr, August 10, 2015, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: This international collection of critical and creative work offers compelling responses to the specifics of `tradition' and `place' in the face of formal and thematic challenges.

Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis: Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures

Product Description: Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis continues Patrick D. Murphy's focus on transversal ecocritical praxis by considering literature and cinema in terms of the persuasive force of aesthetic activity and whether or not artistic production and its criticism can be considered forms of activism...read more

By Patrick D. Murphy

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9781498514835 | Lexington Books, August 20, 2015, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis continues Patrick D.

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