Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture – serie
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Money and American Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1695 kr
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Few topics are as central to the American literary imagination as money. American writers' preoccupations with money predate the foundation of the United States and persist to the present day. Writers have been among the sharpest critics and most enchanted observers of an American social world …
Jazz and American Culture
Inbunden, 2023
673 kr
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Almost immediately after jazz became popular nationally in the United States in the early 20th century, American writers responded to what this exciting art form signified for listeners. This book takes an expansive view of the relationship between this uniquely American music and other aspects of …
Whiteness and American Literature
Av Jolene Hubbs
Inbunden, 2025
1704 kr
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This volume provides an illuminating exploration of how ideas about whiteness have shaped the literature and culture of the United States. Covering nearly 250 years - from the 1790 Naturalization Act, which limited access to citizenship to immigrants who were 'free white person[s],' to the present …
Hip-Hop and American Culture
Av Rob Turner
Häftad, 2026
598 kr
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Rewinding through five decades, this book listens closely to the bars, samples, and stories that have made hip-hop the true sound of America. Bringing together nineteen essays from leading figures in hip-hop studies, it traces lines of influence from Atlanta and Detroit all the way back to the …
Gender in American Literature and Culture
Av Jean M. Lutes, Jennifer Travis
Inbunden, 2021
673 kr
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Gender in American Literature and Culture introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism. It offers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present and moves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and …
Climate and American Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1947 kr
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Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to …
Race in American Literature and Culture
Av John Ernest
Inbunden, 2022
511 kr
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Exploring the unsteady foundations of American literary history, Race in American Literature and Culture examines the hardening of racial fault lines throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth while considering aspects of the literary and interrelated traditions that emerged from this …
Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
Av John Hay
Inbunden, 2020
1697 kr
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The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology …
War and American Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1697 kr
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This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American …
Climate and American Literature
Häftad, 2026
617 kr
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Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to …
The City in American Literature and Culture
Inbunden, 2021
1853 kr
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The city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in the twenty-first. Engaging the history of urban promise and struggle as represented in literature, film, and visual arts, and drawing on work in the …
