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Mark Twain at Home
How Family Shaped Twain's Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
545 kr
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Twain scholar Michael Kiskis opens this fascinating new exploration of Twain with the observation that most readers have no idea that Samuel Clemens was the father of four and that he lived through the deaths of three of his children as well as his wife. In Mark Twain at Home: How Family Shaped …
Kitchen Economics
Women's Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy
Inbunden, 2020
720 kr
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An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought. Readers of late nineteenth-century female American authors are familiar with plots, characters, and households that make a virtue of economizing. Scholars often interpret these scenarios in terms of a …
Selected Literary Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Av Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cynthia C. Murillo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
724 kr
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These 250 transcribed and annotated letters reveal the personal and literary life of one of the most highly regarded African American writers and intellectuals Paul Laurence Dunbar (1873–1906) was arguably the most famous African American poet, novelist, and dramatist at the turn of the twentieth …
Jack London and the Sea
Av Anita Duneer
Inbunden, 2022
720 kr
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The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer Jack London’s fiction has been studied previously for its thematic connections to the ocean, but Jack London and the Sea marks the first time that his life as a writer has been considered extensively in relationship to his own sailing …
Canons by Consensus
Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies
Häftad, 2016
380 kr
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Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout …
Man's Game
Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism
Av John Dudley
Häftad, 2016
314 kr
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Vast and Terrible Drama
American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2016
290 kr
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A broad treatment of the cultural, social, political, and literary under-pinnings of an entire period and movement in American letters.The Vast and Terrible Drama is a critical study of the context in which authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and …
Echoes of Emerson
Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather
Häftad, 2019
314 kr
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Mark Twain
The Complete Interviews
Häftad, 2020
470 kr
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Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews is an annotated and indexed scholarly edition of every known interview with Mark Twain. In these interviews that span his entire career, Twain discusses matters as varied as his lecture style, his writings, and his bankruptcy, while holding forth on such timeless …
Chesnutt and Realism
A Study of the Novels
Av Ryan Simmons
Häftad, 2020
314 kr
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Provides an important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of realismAlthough Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, scholars have paid little attention to the central question of this study: what does it mean to call …
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
Av Monika Elbert, Wendy Ryden m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
380 kr
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An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualitiesFollowing the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often …
Stephen Crane Remembered
Häftad, 2022
445 kr
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Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintancesThis book collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. Although Crane is widely regarded as a major …
Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2013
461 kr
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Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.Sounding Real by Cristina L. Ruotolo examines landmark changes in American musical standards …
Fighting Words
Polemics and Social Change in Literary Naturalism
Av Ira Wells
Inbunden, 2013
526 kr
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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 of the genre and …
Continuing Bonds with the Dead
Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors
Inbunden, 2016
655 kr
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Harold K. Bush’s Continuing Bonds with the Dead examines the profound transfiguration that the death of a child wrought on the literary work of nineteenth-century American writers. Taking as his subjects Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois, …
