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  • The New Mark Twain Handbook

    by E. Hudson Long, J. R. LeMaster ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The American Novel
    This authors of this useful handbook, originally published in 1985, not only summarise Mark Twain scholarship, but also evaluate, in much detail, the various contributions. Each chapter includes a thorough annotated bibliography. This title also includes a comprehensive chronological table of the significant events in Mark Twain’s Life, including the publication dates of his works. This title will ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

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  • Waiting for the Barbarians

    Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

    by Daniel Mendelsohn ...
    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDAND THE PEN ART OF THE ESSAY AWARDOver the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets & Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Book of the Month

    Sixty Years of Books in American Life

    by Al Silverman ...
    This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across America find their next favorite book.In this comprehensive anthology compiled from the Club's monthly News, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Workshops of Empire

    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    by Eric Bennett ...
    Series series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Mark Twain, Travel Books, and Tourism

    The Tide of a Great Popular Movement

    by Professor Jeffrey Alan Melton ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize for best manuscript in American LiteratureWith the publication of The Innocents Abroad (1869), Mark Twain embarked on a long and successful career as the 19th century's best-selling travel writer. Jeffrey Melton treats Twain's travel narratives in depth, and in the context of his contemporary travel writers and a burgeoning tourism culture. As Melton shows, Twain ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Dive Deeper:Journeys with Moby-Dick

    Journeys with Moby-Dick

    by George Cotkin ...
    Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid reader. George Cotkin's Dive Deeper provides both a guide to the novel and a record of its dazzling ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Collision

    Muslims in America

    by Robert Louis Tegenkamp ...
    COLLISION is a book written to modern America with all its technological advancements, for the purpose of understanding a strange new culture emerging from within its glory from the 7th century since Ted Kennedy opened the flood gates in 1965 without any concern for the inevitable clash that this strange culture would create in a democracy such as ours. Therefore, we will learn everything we need ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Jane Dolinger

    The Adventurous Life of an American Travel Writer

    by L. Abbott ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    For almost forty years, Jane Dolinger traveled the world and wrote about her adventures, from the Amazon jungle to the sands of the Sahara. She produced eight books and more than a thousand articles between 1955 and 1995, and she also earned a reputation as a glamorous celebrity and model. Jane Dolinger was an anomaly in her time, a dynamic and attractive woman with an impressive literary talent, ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • American Terror

    The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville

    by Paul Hurh ...
    If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors—Jonathan Edwards, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville—who not only wrote works of terror, but who defended, theorized, and championed it ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Schooling Readers

    Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

    by Allison Speicher ...
    Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction—though now often forgotten—set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century.Despite hailing from different regions with diverse histories and cultures, authors in all parts ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • The Social Imperative

    Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism

    by Paula L. Moya ...
    In the context of the ongoing crisis in literary criticism, The Social Imperative reminds us that while literature will never by itself change the world, it remains a powerful tool and important actor in the ongoing struggle to imagine better ways to be human and free. Figuring the relationship between reader and text as a type of friendship, the book elaborates the social-psychological concept of ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Sympathetic Puritans

    Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England

    by Abram Van Engen ...
    Series series Religion in America
    Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears; the standard history traces a cult of ... Read more

    $98.39 CAD