Hakutulokset: a history of american literature
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American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History
The United States today is afflicted with political alienation, militarized violence, institutionalized poverty, and social agony. Worst of all, perhaps, it is afflicted with …
Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing
The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical moments have recently …
Black Women in New South Literature and Culture
Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black …
Homelessness in American Literature
This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen …
Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919
Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in …
Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance
With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. …
Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While …
Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the …
The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
The Critical History of Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: A Dialogue with Unreason traces the complex, scattered criticism of Poe's most anomalous work, as it …
The Literature of Immigration and Racial Formation
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that …