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  • Ralph Ellison and the Genius of America

    by Timothy Parrish ...
    Ralph Ellison has long been admired as the author of one of the most important American novels of the twentieth century, Invisible Man. Yet he has also been dismissed by some critics as a writer who only published one major work of fiction and a black intellectual out of touch with his times. In this book, Timothy Parrish offers a fundamentally different assessment of Ellison's legacy, describing ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

    Edited by Timothy Parrish ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth

    Edited by Timothy Parrish ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Lutheranism and American Culture

    The Making of a Distinctive Faith in the Civil War Era

    by Timothy D. Grundmeier, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Timothy D. Grundmeier’s Lutheranism and American Culture examines the transformation of the nation’s third-largest Protestant denomination over the course of the nineteenth century. In the antebellum era, leading voices within the church believed that the best way to become American was by modifying certain historic doctrines deemed too Catholic and cooperating with Anglo-evangelicals in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Mexican-American War Experiences of Twelve Civil War Generals

    by Sean Chick, Dr. Christian B. Keller, Dr. Ethan S. Rafuse, Dr. Thomas W. Cutrer, Dr. Stephen D. Engle, Joseph T. Glatthaar, Jennifer M. Murray, Craig L. Symonds, Timothy B. Smith, T. Michael Parrish, Brian Steel Wills, Alexander Mendoza, Cecily N. Zander ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly because of its questionable origin and controversial outcome. Rather than treat the conflict with a form of historical amnesia, the contributors to this volume argue that the Mexican-American War was a formative experience for the more than three ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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