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“allison speicher”

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  • Schooling Readers

    Reading Common Schools in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

    by Allison Speicher ...
    Schooling Readers investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common school narrative, an immensely popular genre of fiction—though now often forgotten—set in the rural one-room school in the nineteenth century.Despite hailing from different regions with diverse histories and cultures, authors in all parts ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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    All the Plays, Poems, and Sonnets by the Greatest Writer in the English Language

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    All the world's a stage—and this is the ultimate script. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare brings together every word ever written by the Bard: all 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 epic narrative poems in one authoritative volume. Whether you're rediscovering Hamlet or exploring Timon of Athens for the first time, this collection is your definitive guide to the timeless genius of English ... Read more

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  • The Long Embrace

    Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved

    by Judith Freeman ...
    Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American ... Read more

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  • American Lit 101

    From Nathaniel Hawthorne to Harper Lee and Naturalism to Magical Realism, an essential guide to American writers and works

    by Brianne Keith ...
    Series series Adams 101 Series
    From poetry to fiction to essays, American Lit 101 leaves no page unturned!Edgar Allan Poe. Willa Cather. Henry David Thoreau. Mark Twain. The list of important American writers goes on and on. These voices played a vital role in shaping the scope of American literature, and the United States itself. But too often, textbooks reduce this storied history to dry text that would put even a tenured ... Read more

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  • The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

    Edited by Robert S. Levine ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fiction and poetry, including neglected works ripe for rediscovery. The volume includes essays on such new ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Transgressive Fiction

    The New Satiric Tradition

    by R. Mookerjee ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. ... Read more

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  • Unnatural Ecopoetics

    Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry

    by Sarah Nolan ...
    What constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary spaces can be both wild and urban, or even cultural. Yet, few of the works produced to date have addressed the pronounced influence the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Secretaries of the Moon

    The Letters of Wallace Stevens and José Rodriguez Feo

    Edited by Beverly Coyle, Alan Filreis ...
    The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted Stevens's poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cuban, who quickly became Stevens's "most exciting correspondent." The two shared a Harvard education, both were anxious to see Stevens translated for a Cuban audience, and each had an enduring admiration for Santayana, whose awareness of the cultural ... Read more

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  • Whitman Possessed

    Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority

    by Mark Maslan ...
    Whitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority, Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. By reading his ... Read more

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  • American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930

    Edited by Ichiro Takayoshi ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an ... Read more

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  • Another Part of a Long Story

    Literary Traces of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton

    by William Davies King ...
    "An engrossing biography about the marital breakdown of a major literary figure, of particular interest for what it reveals about O'Neill's creative process, activities, and bohemian lifestyle at the time of his early successes and some of his most interesting experimental work. In addition, King's discussion of Boulton's efforts as a writer of pulp fiction in the early part of the 20th century ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Errant Art of Moby-Dick

    The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America’s most distinguished critics reexamines Melville’s monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick—a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication—William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD