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The Essential Lectures of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1890-1894
The first collection of lectures and sermons that Charlotte Perkins Gilman delivered in the first four years of her career The last decades have seen a resurgence of interest in …
Conscience and Purpose
In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, W. D. Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. Literature could and should, Howells suggested, …
Artistic Liberties
Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and …
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age recounts Twain's fascination with, and participation in, America's spiritual and religious evolution in the 19th century and …
Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts
This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual …
John Steinbeck Goes to War
The fascinating story of The Moon is Down's publishing history, how it was received by audiences around the world, and its effect in the war against Fascism.
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation
In this study of Gilded Age literature and culture, Benjamin Railton proposes that in the years after Reconstruction, America’s identity was often contested through distinct and …
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors
In Edith Wharton's works, references to architecture, interior decoration, painting, sculpture, and fashion abound. As these essays demonstrate, art and objects are for Wharton …
A Question of Character
Boeckmann links character, literary genre, and science, revealing how major literary works both contributed to and disrupted the construction of race in turn-of-the-century …
Cartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain in Context
The first book-length treatment of Mark Twain’s public persona as depicted in newspaper and magazine illustrationsCartoons and Caricatures of Mark Twain: Reformer and Social …
Unguessed Kinships
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with …
Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries
By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct misunderstandings of the feminist writer and lecturer as an isolated …