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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the...
Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860
A Study in Social Values
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting....
Adopting America
Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
American literature abounds with orphans who experience adoption or placements that resemble adoption. These stories do more than recount adventures of children living away from home. They tell an American story of family and national identity. In narratives from the seventeenth to the early twentieth...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history. A History of American Civil War Literature examines the way in which the war has been remembered and rewritten over time in prose, poems, and other narratives. This history incorporates...
The Native American Renaissance
Literary Imagination and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko...
by Cleland Boyd McAfee
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Greatest English Classic - A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its - Influence on Life and Literature. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
This...
The Literature of Reconstruction
Not in Plain Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In this powerful book, Brook Thomas revisits the contested era of Reconstruction. He evokes literature’s immediacy to recreate arguments still unresolved today about state versus federal authority, the government’s role in education, the growing power of banks and corporations, the paternalism...
Canadian Exploration Literature
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
First published by Oxford University Press in 1993, Exploration Literature is a groundbreaking collection of early writing inspired by the opening of a continent.With maps, notes, and thumbnail biographies of these early writers, Exploration Literature is an entry point for both the casual reader...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
This 2004 volume offers an introduction to British literature that challenges the traditional divide between eighteenth-century and Romantic studies. Contributors explore the development of literary genres and modes through a period of rapid change. They show how literature was shaped by historical...
Effeminate Years
Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully...
American Literature in Context
1830-1865
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1830 to 1865, this second volume of American Literature in Context examines twelve major American writers of the three...
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature
A Historical Exploration of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most interesting eras in African American literature as well as a highly regarded period in our country's literary history. The works produced during this span reflect a turbulent social climate in America … a time fraught with both opportunities and injustices...
The Scandal of the Century
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
“The articles and columns in The Scandal of the Century demonstrate that his forthright, lightly ironical voice just seemed to be there, right from the start. . . . He’s among those rare great fiction writers whose ancillary work is almost always worth finding. . . . He had a way of connecting...
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
**Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature—in a deluxe edition with a foreword by Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr
A Penguin Classic**
Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur was the first book that John Steinbeck truly enjoyed reading...