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  • The Birth of the English Major

    An Origin Story

    by Dayton Haskin ...
    The Birth of the English Major tells the story of how literature written in English became established as a field of study in American universities. Dayton Haskin examines archival materials drawn from more than thirty colleges to explore the shift from prioritizing classical education, focused on Latin, Greek, and mathematics, to offering courses on English literature.Unlike accounts of the rise ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Shakespearean Educations

    Power, Citizenship, and Performance

    by Coppélia Kahn, Heather S. Nathans, Jennifer Mylander, Sandra M. Gustafson, Jonathan Burton, Nan Johnson, Elizabeth Renker, Denise Albanese0, Dayton Haskin1, Marvin McAllister2, Rosemary Kegl3, Theodore Leinwand4 ...
    Shakespearean Educations examines how and why Shakespeare’s works shaped the development of American education from the colonial period through the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, taking the reader up to the years before the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (popularly known as the GI Bill), coeducation, and a nascent civil rights movement would alter the educational landscape yet again. The essays ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2

    The Songs and Sonets: Part 2: Texts, Commentary, Notes, and Glosses

    by John Donne ...
    Series Book 2 - The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne
    This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

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    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
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    $14.99 CAD

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  • A Poet's Glossary

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore—a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium ... Read more

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  • Professing Literature

    An Institutional History

    by Gerald Graff ...
    Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that ... Read more

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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden editions guide you to a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays. This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream provides a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text and a full ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • American Dark Age

    Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism

    by Keidrick Roy ...
    How a group of Black liberal thinkers challenged the race-based feudalism that reigned in the early American republicThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many nineteenth-century Americans viewed their nation through the prism of the Old World. What they saw was a racially stratified country that reflected not the ideals of a modern republic but rather the remnants ... Read more

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  • Poetry: The Basics

    by Jeffrey Wainwright ...
    Series series The Basics
    Now in its fourth edition, Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the exciting and diverse world of poetry. Jeffrey Wainwright’s accessible introduction demystifies poetic forms and traditions, which can at first seem bewildering.Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Dylan Thomas, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

    Edited by Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, Laura Dassow Walls ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics. ... Read more

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  • The Essential Poet's Glossary

    by Edward Hirsch ...
    A Poet’s Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet’s Glossary gleans the very best from that extraordinary volume."An instant classic that belongs on the bookshelf of every serious poet and literature student."—Washington PostChancellor of the Academy of American Poets Edward Hirsch has ... Read more

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  • Accounting for Capitalism

    The World the Clerk Made

    by Michael Zakim ...
    The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account assigned with overseeing all the new buying and selling? In Accounting for Capitalism, Michael Zakim ... Read more

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