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  • The Message of the City

    Dawn Powell’s New York Novels, 1925–1962

    de Patricia E. Palermo ...
    Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York. “From the moment she left behind her harsh upbringing in Mount Gilead, Ohio, and arrived in Manhattan, in ... Leer más

    $25.69 USD

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  • The Blue Fairy Book

    Andrew Lang's Magical Collection of Timeless Tales

    de Andrew Lang ...
    Step into a world of enchantment and wonder Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book is the first in his celebrated series of Fairy Books, offering a treasure trove of classic tales from around the world. This enchanting collection includes beloved stories such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, and many more. Each tale is brimming with magic, adventure ... Leer más

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  • Arms

    The Culture and Credo of the Gun

    de Andrew Somerset ...
    After a fifteen-year hiatus from the world of guns, journalist, sports shooter, and former soldier A.J. Somerset no longer fit in with other firearm enthusiasts. Theirs was a culture much different than the one he remembered: a culture more radical, less tolerant, and more immovable in its beliefs, as if [each] gun had come with a free, bonus ideological Family Pack [of political tenets], a ready ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Brazen Age

    New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia

    de David Reid ...
    A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West

    de S. T. Joshi ...
    The author writes:This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West," in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader’s Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Walt Whitman

    de David S. Reynolds ...
    Series series Lives and Legacies Series
    From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman, examining the author through the lens of nineteenth-century America. Reynolds shows how Whitman responded to contemporary theater, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Scare Tactics

    Supernatural Fiction by American Women, With a new Preface

    de Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    Scare Tactics identifies an important but overlooked tradition of supernatural writing by American women. Jeffrey Weinstock analyzes this tradition as an essentially feminist attempt to imagine alternatives to a world of limited possibilities. In the process, he recovers the lives and works of authors who were important during their lifetimes and in the development of the American literary ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Melville

    His World and Work

    de Andrew Delbanco ...
    If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates thatMelville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • A Companion to Mark Twain

    Edición de Peter Messent, Louis J. Budd ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent yearsBrings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to ... Leer más

    $48.00 USD

  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    de George Hutchinson ...
    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Novel After Theory

    de Judith Ryan ...
    Novels began to incorporate literary theory in unexpected ways in the late twentieth century. Through allusion, parody, or implicit critique, theory formed an additional strand in fiction that raised questions about the nature of authorship and the practice of writing. Studying this phenomenon provides fresh insight into the recent development of the novel and the persistence of modern theory ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Rhizosphere

    Gilles Deleuze and the 'Minor' American Writing of William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, and William Falkner

    de Mary Zamberlin ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    This book explores the significant intellectual impact the philosopher Jean Wahl had on the directions Gilles Deleuze took as a philosopher and writer of a philosophy of experimentation. The study of this influence also brings to light the significance of Deleuze's emphasis on la pragmatique, inspired by Wahl's writings and teachings and his fascination with American pluralism and pragmatism, ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD