The Color of the Sky

David Halliburton

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 30
• David Halliburton's book is a richly textured study of the complete writings of Stephen Crane, including Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, The Red Badge ... Lees meer

Saint and Singer

Karen E Rowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 18
• This book focuses on the works of America's premier colonial poet, Edward Taylor (1642-1729). This study analyses typology in Taylor's Christographia ... Lees meer

Sound Recording Technology and American Literature

Jessica E Teague

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 187
• Phonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-centur... Lees meer

Cross-Cultural Reckonings

Blanche H Gelfant

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 84
• This far-reaching collection of essays offers a serious and thought-provoking account of the complexities spawned by cross-cultural interpretation. Th... Lees meer

Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation

Peter Gibian

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 127
• Peter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes, senior, in what was known as America's "Age of Conversation". Holmes' multivoiced ... Lees meer

Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

Paul Downes

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 130
• Paul Downes offers a radical revision of some of the most cherished elements of early American cultural identity. The founding texts and writers of th... Lees meer

Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation

Sara Blair

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 99
• In this study, Blair challenges Henry James' perceived status as the literary figurehead of an impregnable high culture. Emphasizing James' engagement... Lees meer

The Puritan-Provincial Vision

Susan Manning

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 41
• This book suggests a new interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Professor Manning reveals the "puritan-p... Lees meer

Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression

William Solomon

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 131
• This study examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues that autobiographical writers ... Lees meer

Henry James' Last Romance

Beverly Haviland

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 110
• In this major new study of Henry James' classic text of cultural criticism, The American Scene, Beverly Haviland shows how James confronted the vexing... Lees meer

Covenant and Republic

Philip Gould

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 103
• Covenant and Republic investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical literature o... Lees meer

The Logic of Slavery

Tim Armstrong

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• In American history and throughout the Western world, the subjugation perpetuated by slavery has created a unique "culture of slavery." That culture e... Lees meer

William Faulkner

Lothar Honnighausen

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 24
• With a writer of Faulkner's scope and subtlety even the study of his beginnings is a challenging task. How did the young man who imitated Swinburne's ... Lees meer

Ideology and Classic American Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 16
• This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American liter... Lees meer

Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated

Mick Gidley

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 119
• From the 1890s onward, Edward S. Curtis took thousands of photographs of Native Americans all over the West. These were published (1907-1930) in twent... Lees meer

Poet's Prose

Stephen Fredman

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 44
• Poet's Prose is the first scholarly work devoted exclusively to American prose poetry and has been recognized as a groundbreaking study in contemporar... Lees meer

Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830-1860

Maurice S Lee

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 148
• Examining the literature of slavery and race before the Civil War, Maurice Lee, in this 2005 book, demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis... Lees meer

The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature

Mary Esteve

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 135
• As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Mary Este... Lees meer

Flannery O'Connor and Cold War Culture

Jon Lance Bacon

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 72
• This book reconsiders Flannery O'Connor, known primarily for her Catholicism. By recovering the historical circumstances in which Flannery O'Connor wr... Lees meer

DOS Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine

Janet Galligani Casey

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 115
• Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine is an original contribution to traditional Dos Passos scholarship, which tends to focus on the author's po... Lees meer

The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

John D Kerkering

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 139
• John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers s... Lees meer

Conspiracy and Romance

Robert S Levine

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 33
• Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to ... Lees meer

Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels

Susan K Harris

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 42
• This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read ... Lees meer

Environmental Practice and Early American Literature

Michael Ziser

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture | nr. 166
• This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together c... Lees meer