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  • Beach Reading

    A Literary and Cultural History

    by Sari Edelstein ...
    A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp, drizzly November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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    Beach Reading

    A Literary and Cultural History

    by Sari Edelstein ...

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    6 hours

    A genre-blending exploration of “beach reading” – the category, the activity, and the artists who shaped our understanding of the beaches we loveBeset with midlife malaise, Sari Edelstein turns to American literature to discover what women of the past did to combat the “damp, drizzly November of the soul.” How, she wondered, do we bring ourselves back to life when we’re stuck in the doldrums?She ... Read more

    $42.00 CAD

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  • Adulthood and Other Fictions

    American Literature and the Unmaking of Age

    by Sari Edelstein ...
    While the field of childhood studies has blossomed in recent years, few scholars have taken up the question of age more broadly as a lens for reading American literature. Adulthood and Other Fictions shows how a diverse array of nineteenth-century writers, thinkers, and artists responded to the rise of chronological age in social and political life. Over the course of the century, age was added to ... Read more

    $53.19 CAD

  • Between the Novel and the News

    The Emergence of American Women's Writing

    by Sari Edelstein ...
    While American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were also influenced by a dynamic relationship with the mainstream press. From the early republic through the turn of the twentieth century, she offers a comprehensive reassessment of writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman's Place in America

    by Peter Betjemann, Sari Edelstein, Catherine J. Golden, Brady Harrison, Denise D. Knight, Gary Scharnhorst, William C. Snyder, Jennifer S. Tuttle ...
    Series series Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism
    A compelling critical investigation into Gilman’s conception of setting and placeCharlotte Perkins Gilman and a Woman’s Place in America is a pioneering collection that probes how depictions of space, confinement, and liberation establish both the difficulty and necessity of female empowerment. Turning Victorian notions of propriety and a woman’s place on its ear, this finely crafted essay ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Valancy Stirling is a twenty-nine year old women, who is unmarried and therefore considered an old maid. Valancy has lived her entire life with her nagging mother and gossiping family members. The gossiping family greatly discourage anything that makes Valancy happy, and constantly treat her like a child. She recreate from her unhappy circumstances to her imaginary world where she explores the ... Read more

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  • The Red Fairy Book

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    Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer best known for collecting folklore, legends, and fairy tales and making a compendium of them to celebrate ethnic heritage. ... Read more

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  • The Age of Innocence

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    The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The ... Read more

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  • Everybody Behaves Badly

    The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises

    by Lesley M. M. Blume ...
    The New York Times bestseller. " Fiendishly readable . . . a deeply, almost obsessively researched biography of a book."— The Washington PostIn the summer of 1925, Ernest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

    by Laurie Rozakis ...
    You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... Read more

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  • Vita Sackville-West

    Selected Writings

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  • Huckleberry Finn

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