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Songs of American Experience
This comparative literature study examines Eugene O'Neill's long neglected link with the 19th century American literary tradition. It is the first scholarly work to focus …
The Novels of Toni Morrison
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture explores the emergence of what Nancy Bombaci terms late modernist freakish aesthetics - a creative fusion of high and low themes and …
Spectacular Narratives
Despite Stephen Crane's great interest in social themes of his time, few critics have analyzed the historical and political significance of his work. This book demonstrates that …
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture
This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms …
Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self
Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self expands the field of autobiography studies by describing an emergent genre, natural biography, that embeds the human subject in a …
William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition
Many readers imagine Gavin Stevens as the character most similar to William Faulkner in all of his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was once considered the most reliable …
Beyond Understanding
To appreciate how and why America's first best-sellers so gripped the American soul, current readers need to recapture the era's cognitive paradigm. In "Beyond Understanding," Dr. …
Liquid Fire
"Liquid Fire" exposes the sophisticated discourse about the Self in Hawthorne's romances that serves not only as the foundation of Hawthorne's imagery, but often as the …
Melville's Use of Spenser
Melville used Spenser throughout his life, from the second -Fragment From a Writing Desk- to "Clarel." His fascination with the Renaissance poet is revealed by his annotations of …