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Wallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger
This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens’s poetry using the philosophical framework …
African American Gothic
This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the …
Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction
This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni …
Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century literary works by American authors. It asserts the centrality and …
F.Scott Fitzgerald'S Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness
This book charts Fitzgerald's use of racial stereotypes to encode the dual nature of his literary ambition: his desire to be on the one hand a popular American entertainer, and on …
George Saunders
This timely volume explores the signal contribution George Saunders has made to the development of the short story form in books ranging from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) to …
Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism
This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.
American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative
This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D'Amore analyzes the …
Writing Celebrity
Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this …
Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction
This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises …
Queer Commodities
Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and …
Queer Commodities
Queer Commoditiesis the first book-length analysis of same-sexuality and consumer capitalism in contemporary US fiction. Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and …