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  • I Remain Yours

    Common Lives in Civil War Letters

    by Christopher Hager ...
    When North and South went to war, millions of American families endured their first long separation. For men in the armies—and their wives, children, parents, and siblings at home—letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Yet for many of these Union and Confederate families, taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task. I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Word by Word

    Emancipation and the Act of Writing

    by Christopher Hager ...
    Consigned to illiteracy, American slaves left little record of their thoughts and feelings—or so we have believed. But a few learned to use pen and paper to make sense of their experiences, despite prohibitions. These authors’ perspectives rewrite the history of emancipation and force us to rethink the relationship between literacy and freedom. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Timelines of American Literature

    Edited by Cody Marrs, Christopher Hager ...
    A collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature.It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Germany's Energy Transition

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Carol Hager, Christoph H. Stefes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy transition on multiple levels of governance, from the local to the European, focusing on the sources of institutional change that made the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The 2015 Jersey Devil Press Anthology

    by Nicola Belte, Jackson Burgess, Christopher DeWan, J.D. Hager, Anna Lea Jancewicz, Liz Kicak, Christopher Lettera, Kimberly Lojewski, Ally Malinenko, Matthew Meyers, Ben Nardolilli, Michael Sions, Danger Slater, yt sumner, Sloan Thomas, Graham Tugwell, Yvonne Yu ...
    Here at Jersey Devil Press, there are three things we look for in a story: strangeness, beauty, and poop jokes. And while this collection is admittedly a little shy on scatological humor, the 18 works collected here are easily the strangest and most beautiful things we've ever published.The 2015 Jersey Devil Press Anthology contains the best work from our last five years, written by some of our ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Literary Cultures of the Civil War

    by Samuel Graber, Coleman Hutchison, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Faith Barrett, James Berkey, Shirley Samuels, Kathleen Diffley, Christopher Hager, Jeremy Wells, John Ernest, Jane E. Schultz ...
    Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Visions of Glory

    The Civil War in Word and Image

    by James Berkey, Julia Stern, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Elizabeth Duquette, Eric Gardner, Sarah Gardner, Aston Gonzalez, Samuel Graber, Nathan Grant, Christopher Hager, Christopher Hanlon, Jeffrey Insko, Cody Marrs, Barbara McCaskill, Timothy Sweet, Kristen Treen, Jane E. Schultz, Martin T. Buinicki ...
    Series Book 15 - UnCivil Wars
    Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

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  • The African American Roots of Modernism

    From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance

    by James Smethurst ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The African American Roots of Modernism explores how the Jim Crow system triggered significant artistic and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Early African American Print Culture

    Edited by Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Within the Circle

    An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present

    Edited by Angelyn Mitchell ...
    Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Literary Executions

    Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

    by John Cyril Barton ...
    "Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser." —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of MichiganDrawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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