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by Joan Shelley Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise...
The War Within
From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the "New South Creed" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within, Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century...
In This Remote Country
French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1780-1860
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
When Anglo-Americans looked west after the Revolution, they hoped to see a blank slate upon which to build their continental republic. However, French settlers had inhabited the territory stretching from Ohio to Oregon for over a century, blending into Native American networks, economies, and communities....
Island Queens and Mission Wives
How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this important shift by focusing on two groups of women:...
Counter-revolution of the Word
The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist...
What Would Jesus Read?
Popular Religious Books and Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Since the late nineteenth century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion, and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining...
Belligerent Muse
Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper...
Self-Taught
African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's...
America Is the Prison
Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.
Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic "prison art renaissance,"...
Lost and Found in Translation
Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works...
Dislocating Race and Nation
Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
American literary nationalism is traditionally understood as a cohesive literary tradition developed in the newly independent United States that emphasized the unique features of America and consciously differentiated American literature from British literature. Robert S. Levine challenges this assessment...
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits
The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new...
by Thomas W. Devine
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
In the presidential campaign of 1948, Henry Wallace set out to challenge the conventional wisdom of his time, blaming the United States, instead of the Soviet Union, for the Cold War, denouncing the popular Marshall Plan, and calling for an end to segregation. In addition, he argued that domestic...
Epistolary Practices
Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and
history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions
have only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from...