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  • Well-Read Lives

    How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women

    by Barbara Sicherman ...
    In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America’s Gilded Age who lost — and found — themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Road to Monticello

    The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

    by Kevin J. Hayes ...
    Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Louise Erdrich

    Tracks, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, The Plague of Doves

    Edited by Professor Deborah L. Madsen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
    Leading scholars critically explore three leading novels by Louise Erdrich, one of the most important and popular Native American writers working today. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poets

    Edited by Mark Richardson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to American Poets brings together thirty-one essays on some fifty-four American poets, spanning nearly 400 years, from Anne Bradstreet to contemporary performance poetry. This book also examines such movements in American poetry as modernism, the Harlem (or New Negro) Renaissance, 'confessional' poetry, the Black Mountain School, the New York School, the Beats, and L=A=N=G ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Unlikely Collaboration

    Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma

    by Barbara Will ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In 1941, the Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government. From 1941 to 1943, Stein translated thirty-two of Pétain's speeches, in which he outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Alice Munro's Narrative Art

    by I. Duncan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • 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

    $31.99 CAD

  • Culture, Capital and Representation

    Edited by R. Balfour ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital). ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Shape of the Signifier

    1967 to the End of History

    by Walter Benn Michaels ...
    The Shape of the Signifier is a critique of recent theory--primarily literary but also cultural and political. Bringing together previously unconnected strands of Michaels's thought--from "Against Theory" to Our America--it anatomizes what's fundamentally at stake when we think of literature in terms of the experience of the reader rather than the intention of the author, and when we substitute ... Read more

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  • Wrestling with the Left

    The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

    by Barbara Foley ...
    In Wrestling with the Left, Barbara Foley presents a penetrating analysis of the creation of Invisible Man. In the process she sheds new light not only on Ralph Ellison’s celebrated novel but also on his early radicalism and the relationship between African American writers and the left during the early years of the cold war. Foley scrutinized thousands of pages of drafts and notes for the novel, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • A Dark California

    Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture

    Edited by Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Agata Zarzycka ...
    Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a central theme of darkness through literature (Toby Barlow, Angela Carter, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon, and Claire Vaye Watkins), video games (L.A. Noire), music (Death Grips, Lana Del Rey, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers), TV (True Detective and American Horror Story), and film (Starry Eyes, Southland ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Demands of the Dead

    Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States

    Edited by Katy Ryan ...
    The first work to combine literary criticism with other forms of death penalty–abolitionist writing, Demands of the Dead demonstrates the active importance of literature and literary criticism to the struggle for greater justice in the United States. Gathering personal essays, scholarly articles, and creative writings on the death penalty in American culture, this striking collection brings human ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD