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  • Literary Executions

    Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Yours for Humanity

    New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

    par John Cyril Barton, Elizabeth Cali, Sabine Engwer, Karin L. Hooks, Courtney Novosat, Colleen O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Valerie Sirenko, Hanna Wallinger, Edlie L. Wong ...
    Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. Her particular form of cultural activism was groundbreaking for its time and continues to influence and inspire authors and scholars today. This collection of essays ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Transatlantic Sensations

    par John Cyril Barton, Kristin N. Huston, a Preface by David S. Reynolds ...
    Collections series Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
    Bringing together sensation writing and transatlantic studies, this collection makes a convincing case for the symbiotic relationship between literary works on both sides of the Atlantic. Transatlantic Sensations begins with the 'prehistories' of the genre, looking at the dialogue and debate generated by the publication of sentimental and gothic fiction by William Godwin, Susanna Rowson, and ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD

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  • A History of American Working-Class Literature

    Modifié par Nicholas Coles, Paul Lauter ...
    A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place ... En savoir plus

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    par Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... En savoir plus

    $39.59 CAD

  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    par Andrew Warnes ...
    Collections series Routledge Guides to Literature
    Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world.This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Native Sona critical ... En savoir plus

    $81.06 CAD

  • Whiteness of a Different Color

    par Matthew Frye Jacobson ...
    America's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    par Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The New Era

    American Thought and Culture in the 1920s

    par Paul V. Murphy ...
    Collections series American Thought and Culture
    In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity.The New Era provides a history of American thought and culture in the 1920s through the eyes of American ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • CULTURE AS HISTORY

    par warren susman ...
    Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    par George Hutchinson ...
    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars

    A New Pandora's Box

    par Anthony Dawahare ...
    During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with nationalist leanings wrote the most relevant fiction, poetry, and prose of the day.Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature Between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box challenges that notion. ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD