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“daniel b shea”

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  • The Patience of Pearl

    Spiritualism and Authorship in the Writings of Pearl Curran

    by Daniel B. Shea ...
    When St. Louis homemaker Pearl Curran began writing fiction and poetry at a Ouija board in 1913, she attributed the work to the “discarnate entity” Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century Puritan. Though now virtually forgotten, her writing garnered both critical praise and public popularity at the time. The Patience of Pearl uncovers more of Curran’s (and thus Patience Worth’s) biography than has ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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    by Graham Thomas ...
    The Dan Brown Enigma is an insightful look into the world of Dan Brown that will not only enthral and entertain, but will unlock the secrets of one of the world's most exciting and enigmatic writers. Dan Brown is already one of the bestselling authors that the world has ever seen.Due to the success of his gripping novels Digital Fortress, Deception Point, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and ... Read more

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  • More Matter

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.”Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author ... Read more

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  • The Other Blacklist

    The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

    by Mary Washington ...
    Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Exposés and Excess

    Muckraking in America, 19 / 2

    by Cecelia Tichi ...
    Series series Personal Takes
    From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who have drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Hospitality in American Literature and Culture

    Spaces, Bodies, Borders

    by Jesús Benito Sanchez, Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This volume examines hospitality in American immigrant literature and culture, situating this ancient virtue at the crossroads of space and border theory, and exploring the relationship among the intersecting themes of migration, citizenship, identity formation, and spatiality. Assessing the conditions, duration, and shifting roles of hosts and guests in the United States, the book concentrates on ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories

    Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable

    by James Nagel ...
    Race and Culture in New Orleans Storiesposits that the Crescent City and the surrounding Louisiana bayous were a logical setting for the literary exploration of crucial social problems in America.Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories is a study of four volumes of interrelated short stories set in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana bayous: Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk; George Washington Cable ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Reading Faulkner

    Light in August

    by Hugh Ruppersburg ...

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  • A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Alan M. Levine, Daniel S. Malachuk ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned—and renounced—as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York

    Edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell, Bryan Waterman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The “White Other” in American Intermarriage Stories, 1945–2008

    by L. Cardon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Fictional depictions of intermarriage can illuminate perceptions of both 'ethnicity' and 'whiteness' at any given historical moment. Popular examples such as Lucy and Ricky in I Love Lucy (1951-1957), Joanna and John in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Toula and Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) helped raise questions about national identity: does 'American' mean 'white' or a blending of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD