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Anxieties of Experience
The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño
Häftad, 2019
628 kr
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Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of authority for New World …
After Critique
Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age
Häftad, 2026
839 kr
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Periodizing contemporary fiction against the backdrop of neoliberalism, After Critique identifies a notable turn away from progressive politics among a cadre of key twenty-first-century authors. Through authoritative readings of foundational texts from writers such as Percival Everett, Helena …
The Moral Economies of American Authorship
Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations. Using a wide …
Unscripted America
Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
Av Sarah Rivett
Häftad, 2020
635 kr
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In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had …
Forms of Dictatorship
Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o …
Family Money
Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2015
691 kr
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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners; the household traumas of mixed-race slaves; post-Emancipation calls for reparations; and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from …
The Moral Economies of American Authorship
Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace
Inbunden, 2016
1872 kr
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The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations. Using a wide …
Surveyors of Custom
American Literature as Cultural Analysis
Av Joel Pfister
Inbunden, 2016
2186 kr
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In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, fired from Salem's Customs House and returning to writing, reconceived his old job title, Surveyor of Customs, as his new one. Taking seriously this naming of the American author's project, Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can …
After Critique
Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age
Inbunden, 2016
2062 kr
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After Critique identifies an ontological turn in contemporary U.S. fiction that distinguishes our current literary moment from both postmodernism and so-called post-postmodernism. This turn to ontology takes many forms, but in general After Critique highlights a body of literature--work from Colson …
Living Oil
Petroleum Culture in the American Century
Häftad, 2016
860 kr
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Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still photography, novels, and memoirs. The book's unique focus is the aesthetic, sensory, and emotional …
Unscripted America
Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
Av Sarah Rivett
Inbunden, 2017
1069 kr
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In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had …
America's England
Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism
Häftad, 2016
902 kr
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The wealth of transatlantic scholarship to emerge in recent years has greatly enriched our understanding of the mutual, far-reaching cultural exchange between Great Britain and the United States. Yet scholars often lose sight of this relationship in the years immediately leading up to the outbreak …
Writing the Rebellion
Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America
Av Philip Gould
Häftad, 2016
776 kr
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Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America. There has been a spate of related works, but Philip Gould's narrative offers a completely different view of the loyalist/patriot contentions than appears in any of these accounts. By focusing on the literary …
Antipodean America
Australasia and the Constitution of U. S. Literature
Av Paul Giles
Häftad, 2016
716 kr
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Although North America and Australasia occupy opposite ends of the earth, they have never been that far from each other conceptually. The United States and Australia both began as British colonies and mutual entanglements continue today, when contemporary cultures of globalization have brought them …
Making Noise, Making News
Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism
Av Mary Chapman
Häftad, 2017
718 kr
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For most people, the U.S. suffrage campaign is encapsulated by images of iconic nineteenth-century orators like the tightly coifed Susan B. Anthony or the wimpled Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, as Mary Chapman shows, the campaign to secure the vote for U.S. women was also a modern and …
The Puritan Cosmopolis
The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination
Av Nan Goodman
Inbunden, 2018
1893 kr
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The Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans -- connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics -- were …
Forms of Dictatorship
Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel
Inbunden, 2017
1746 kr
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An intra-ethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, Forms of Dictatorship examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new sub-genre of Latina/o …
Propaganda 1776
Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America
Häftad, 2019
628 kr
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1776 symbolizes a moment, both historical and mythic, of democracy in action. That year witnessed the release of a document, which Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations and spin, would later label as a masterstroke of propaganda. Although the Declaration of Independence relies …
White Writers, Race Matters
Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett
Inbunden, 2018
1746 kr
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What explains the enduring popularity of white-authored protest fiction about racism in America? How have such books spoken to the racial crises of their time, and why do they remain important in our own era? White Writers, Race Matters explores these questions and the controversies they raise by …
Anxieties of Experience
The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño
Inbunden, 2018
1155 kr
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Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño offers a new interpretation of US and Latin American literature from the nineteenth century to the present. Revisiting longstanding debates in the hemisphere about whether the source of authority for New World …
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity
Av Ian Finseth
Inbunden, 2018
2041 kr
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The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a massive array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861 to 1914, Ian Finseth maintains that the war …
Surveyors of Customs
American Literature as Cultural Analysis
Av Joel Pfister
Häftad, 2018
818 kr
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In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, fired from Salem's Custom House and returning to writing, reconceived his old job title, Surveyor of Customs, as his new one. Taking seriously this naming of the American author's project, Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be …
Territories of Empire
U.S. Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence
Av Andy Doolen
Häftad, 2019
649 kr
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In contrast to later imperial pursuits in Mexico, Cuba, and the Philippines, the early United States extended its boundaries through less sensational modes of territorialization: land deals, slavery expansion, treaty diplomacy, immigration and settlement, and the addition of new states on the …
Literature in the Making
A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2019
500 kr
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In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing literary texts. Literature in …
Literary Neurophysiology
Memory, Race, Sex, and Representation in U.S. Writing, 1860-1914
Inbunden, 2021
1517 kr
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Writing about the brain and the nervous system more than a century ago, what were U.S. authors doing? Literary Neurophysiology: Memory, Race, Sex, and Representation in U.S. Writing, 1860-1914 examines their use of literature to experiment with the new materialist psychology, a science that was …
Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Inbunden, 2022
1484 kr
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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily …
The American House Poem, 1945-2021
Av Walt Hunter
Inbunden, 2023
1205 kr
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The house is perhaps the most recognizable emblem of the American ideals of self-making: prosperity, stability, domesticity, and upward mobility. Yet over the years from 1945-2021, the American house becomes more famous for the betrayal of those hopes than for their fulfilment: first, through the …
Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature
Av Kelly Ross
Inbunden, 2022
1385 kr
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Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long …
Telling America's Story to the World
Literature, Internationalism, Cultural Diplomacy
Inbunden, 2022
1648 kr
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Telling America's Story to the World argues that state and state-affiliated cultural diplomacy contributed to the making of postwar US literature. Highlighting the role of liberal internationalism in US cultural outreach, Harilaos Stecopoulos contends that the state mainly sent authors like Ralph …
Schools of Fiction
Literature and the Making of the American Educational System
Inbunden, 2023
1596 kr
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In Schools of Fiction, Morgan Day Frank considers a bizarre but integral feature of the modern educational experience: that teachers enthusiastically teach literary works that have terrible things to say about school. From Ishmael's insistence in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick that "a whale-ship was …
