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  • Reading Children

    Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Patricia Crain ...
    Series series Material Texts
    What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Reading Children

    Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Patricia Crain ...
    Series series Material Texts
    What does it mean for a child to be a "reader" and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Black on Both Sides

    A Racial History of Trans Identity

    by C. Riley Snorton ...
    Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay StudiesThe ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • 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

    $36.99 USD

  • Feminist Criticism and Social Change (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Sex, class and race in literature and culture

    Edited by Deborah Rosenfelt, Judith Newton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    This lively and controversial collection of essays sets out to theorize and practice a ‘materialist-feminist’ criticism of literature and culture. Such a criticism is based on the view that the material conditions in which men and women live are central to an understanding of culture and society. It emphasises the relation of gender to other categories of analysis, such as class and race, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Lewd and Notorious

    Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Katharine Kittredge ...
    Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson

    Edited by Wendy Martin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essays by accomplished Dickinson scholars. They cover Dickinson's biography, publication history, poetic themes and strategies, and her historical and cultural contexts. As a woman poet, Dickinson's ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Boys Don't Cry?

    Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S.

    Edited by Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis ...
    We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Emily Dickinson in Context

    Edited by Eliza Richards ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Long untouched by contemporary events, ideas and environments, Emily Dickinson's writings have been the subject of intense historical research in recent years. This volume of thirty-three essays by leading scholars offers a comprehensive introduction to the contexts most important for the study of Dickinson's writings. While providing an overview of their topic, the essays also present ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • The Political Poetess

    Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres

    by Tricia Lootens ...
    The Political Poetess challenges familiar accounts of the figure of the nineteenth-century Poetess, offering new readings of Poetess performance and criticism. In performing the Poetry of Woman, the mythic Poetess has long staked her claims as a creature of "separate spheres"—one exempt from emerging readings of nineteenth-century women's political poetics. Turning such assumptions on their heads, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century

    Edited by Lydia Moland, Alison Stone ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century disrupts the widespread impression that there were no women philosophers in this period. Building on feminist histories of philosophy that cover other eras, this volume includes chapters on a wide range of women philosophers: those who wrote explicitly philosophical texts for academic audiences, others who ... Read more

    $182.69 USD