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  • The Illustration of the Master

    Henry James and the Magazine Revolution

    by Amy Tucker ...
    The Illustration of the Master examines the crucial role of the illustrated press in the formation of the reading public and the writing profession during Henry James's lifetime. The book re-examines James's stories, criticism, and travel essays in light of the explosive growth of the magazine industry in the United States and abroad at the turn of the century. Using previously unpublished ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

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    by Pelagia Goulimari ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Toni Morrison's visionary explorations of freedom and identity, self and community, against the backdrop of African American history have established her as one of the foremost novelists of her time; an artist whose seriousness of purpose and imaginative power have earned her both widespread critical acclaim and great popular success.This guide to Morrison’s work offers:an accessible introduction ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Necessary Angel

    Essays on Reality and the Imagination

    by Wallace Stevens ...
    In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Edited by Ruth Prigozy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Eleven specially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Works of Catharine Sedgwick

    (7 Works)

    by Catharine Sedgwick ...
    Series series Unsecretbooks publication
    Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". She promoted Republican motherhood. Miss Sedgwick’s first publication was “The New England Tale.” In 1836, she commenced writing in quite a new vein, giving a series of illustrations of common life, called “The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man.” These were followed, in 1837, by “Live and ... Read more

    $1.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Susan Glaspell in Context

    American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

    by J. Ellen Gainor ...
    Susan Glaspell in Context not only discusses the dramatic work of this key American author -- perhaps best known for her short story "A Jury of Her Peers" and its dramatic counterpart, Trifles -- but also places it within the theatrical, cultural, political, social, historical, and biographical climates in which Glaspell's dramas were created: the worlds of Greenwich Village and Provincetown ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Dialect of Modernism

    Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Michael North ...
    Series series Race and American Culture
    The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers in ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

  • There's a Mystery There

    The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak

    by Jonathan Cott ...
    An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period.Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles

    Edited by Kevin R. McNamara ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Philip Roth Considered

    The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer

    by Steven Milowitz ...
    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    This book comprehensively surveys Philip Roth's published and unpublished works, focusing on the thematic unity which binds them together: the memory of the Holocaust and the altered universe born of that memory. The Holocaust is understood as the orienting event for Roth's fiction and non-fiction, the force that surrounds the characters and the narratives at all times. Roth's obsession with ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist

    A Philosophical Inquiry

    by Dr. Indrek Männiste ...
    Against skeptics, Männiste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even some of the most basic of Miller's ideas. Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller's philosophical ... Read more

    $55.79 CAD

  • Captivating Westerns

    The Middle East in the American West

    by Susan Kollin ...
    Series series Postwestern Horizons
    Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, “the Western,” Susan Kollin’s Captivating Westerns analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West. In particular, the book examines how experiences of contact and conflict have played a role in defining the western United States as a crucial ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD