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    by Kerry Larson ...
    Series Book 157 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    The theme of inequality has often dominated academic criticism, which has been concerned with identifying, analyzing, and demystifying various regimes of power and the illicit hierarchies upon which they are built. Studies of the United States in the nineteenth century have followed this trend in focusing on slavery, women's writing, and working-class activism. Kerry Larson advocates the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

    Edited by Kerry Larson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, many of whom are currently being rediscovered. A number of anthologies in the recent past have been devoted to the verse of groups such as Native Americans, African-Americans and women. This volume offers essays covering these groups as well ... Read more

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