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Mimetic Disillusion
Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and U.S. Dramatic Realism
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Mimetic Disillusion reevaluates the history of modern U.S. drama, showing that at mid-century it turned in the direction of a poststructuralist "disillusionment with mimesis" or mimicry.
This volume focuses on two major writers of the 1930s and 1940s--Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers.
British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining....
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Fighting Words offers an entirely new understanding of what literary naturalism is and why it matters.
Ira Wells, countering the standard narrative of literary naturalism’s much-touted concern with environmental and philosophical determinism, draws attention to the polemical essence...
by Sandra A. Zagarell, Margaret A. Amstutz, Paul Crumbley
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Elizabeth Stoddard was a gifted writer of fiction, poetry, and journalism; successfully published within her own lifetime; esteemed by such writers as William Dean Howells and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and situated at the epicenter of New York's literary world. Nonetheless, she has been almost excluded...
Natural Aristocracy
History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Kevin Railey uses a materialist critical approach--which envisions literature as a discourse necessarily interactive with other forces in the world--to identify and historicize Faulkner’s authorial identity. Working from the assumption that Faulkner was deeply affected by the sociohistorical forces...
Mark Twain and Money
Language, Capital, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life.
Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating...
Martin Buber's Formative Years
From German Culture to Jewish Renewal, 1897–1909
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
An illuminating look at an understudied, but critical, period in Buber’s early career.
Martin Buber (1878–1965) has had a tremendous impact on the development of Jewish thought as a highly influential figure in 20th-century philosophy and theology. However, most of his key publications...
Miles of Stare
Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.
The strangeness of nineteenth-century poetic vision...
Liberalism and the Culture of Security
The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
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Figures of protection and security are everywhere in American public discourse, from the protection of privacy or civil liberties to the protection of marriage or the unborn, and from social security to homeland security. Liberalism and the Culture...
The Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological...
Unitarianism in the Antebellum South
The Other Invisible Institution
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
John Macaulay's model study of Unitarianism in the antebellum south reestablishes the denomination's position as an influential religious movement in the early history of the region. By looking at benevolent societies, lay meetings, professional and civic activity, ecumenical interchange, intellectual...
At Ease in Zion
Social History of Southern Baptists, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
First published in 1967, Rufus Spain’s thorough investigation into Southern Baptist attitudes set the stage for research on religion in the American South. In At Ease in Zion, Spain questions the titular “ease” with society that Southern Baptists seemed to maintain following the Civil War. His...
Sparrow and the Hawk
Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of Jose Figueres
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2016
Using Costa Rica as a example, Longley carefully examines the development of the successful relationship between a nonindustrialized country and the United States, revealing the complex forces at work in resistance and accommodation.
During World War II and the immediate postwar era, both...
The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World
The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In March 1812, while Napoleon’s brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected from Spain and its overseas territories met in the Andalusian city of Cádiz. There, as the cornerstone of a government in exile, they drafted and...