Mark Twain and Philosophy
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Mark Twain, the "Father of American Literature," and renowned humorist, satirist, and commentator on...
The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
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The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwickâs illustrious writing career,...
Poetry essays
New American Stories
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The short story is a barometer for the state and shape of literature. New American Stories presents...
Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A History of Exchange, Adaptation, and Reception
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Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the...
Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century
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Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found...
The Wire, Deadwood, Homicide, and NYPD Blue: Violence is Power
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This book offers the only examination of the television writing of David Milch and David Simon as...
The Country of the Pointed Firs
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A rich collection of classic American literature potraying the beauty of a 19th-century New England...
Memoirs
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Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses...
Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange
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This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European...
Rewriting the American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
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Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and...