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The "problem of the twentieth century" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as "the color line" a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that promulgated legal...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-04-03
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Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much interested in plots; she works instead by juxtaposition, leaving it up to the reader to feel the vibrations between one situation and another. Nor is she...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-30
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F.O. Matthiessen’s ''American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman'' is a seminal and important work of literary criticism. It analyzes the explosive cultural output of 1850–1855, focusing on how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau,...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-04-14
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Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald presents a compelling case for reevaluating the writer's most overlooked body of work—his short fiction. While Fitzgerald...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-10-23
Collection :
The Life of the Author
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‘Still Writing offers up a cornucopia of wisdom, insights, and practical lessons gleaned from Dani Shapiro’s long experience as a celebrated writer and teacher of writing. The beneficiaries are beginning writers, veteran writers and everyone in between’ Jennifer...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-03-13
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Edith Wharton’s sensitively observed portraits of women’s lives a century ago resonate into the present day, captivating readers now as they did then. Threaded throughout her accounts is a rich seam of secrets and silences that reveals Wharton’s keen grasp of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-11
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'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'
Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-18
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'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'
Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-12
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This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black Consciousness Movement, in addition to its urgent political focus,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-12-03
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Critical South
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This book offers the first full-length study of Henry James's relationship with, and literary treatment of, New York. It shows how the city, whether observed or reimagined, always remained an essential component of James's identity. New York compelled James to confront...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-30
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In der 4. Auflage ist das Buch umfassend neu konzipiert worden. Neben den Kapiteln von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne, die als Klassiker in der Amerikanistik gelten und nur wenig verändert beibehalten werden, sind alle anderen Kapitel entweder neu geschrieben oder...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-07-15
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A look at the first five decades of 20th century American literature, covering a wide range of literary works, figures, and influencesA History of American Literature 1900-1950 is a current and well-balanced account of the main literary figures, connections, and ideas...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-05-13
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Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature
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Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-28
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This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-03-25
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Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-30
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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-17
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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-17
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Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-12-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-11-09
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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-14
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