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Complicity And The Antebellum Moral Imagination

by David A. (University Of Wisconsin-Madison) Zimmerman

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 Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before the Civil War. Focusing on moral complicity, or participation in social evils and political and economic harms, it addresses topics such as slavery, anti-Catholicism, conspiracies, urban exposÃ©s, and Black economic enterprise.
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Poetry And The Limits Of Modernity In Depression America

by Justin (University Of Tromso) Parks

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 Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its ability to represent society.
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Black Women And Energies Of Resistance In Nineteenth-Century Haitian And American Literature

by Mary Grace (Suny Binghamton) Albanese

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 This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. It redefines energy and modernity by exploring how early Black transnational networks practiced energy across Haiti and the USA.
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Vagabonds, Tramps, And Hobos - The Literature And Culture Of U.S. Transiency 1890â€“1940

by Owen (University Of Lincoln) Clayton

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 This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. It explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It provides new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.
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Poetry And The Limits Of Modernity In Depression America

by Justin (University Of Tromso) Parks

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 Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its ability to represent society.
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Class, Whiteness, And Southern Literature

by Jolene Hubbs

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 This book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.
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Liberalism And American Literature In The Clinton Era

by Ryan M. Brooks

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 Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers â€" including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others â€" grapples with the political triumph of free-market ideology.
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The Poetics Of Insecurity - American Fiction And The Uses Of Threat

by Johannes Voelz

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 The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines literary studies with the philosophy of time and sociological theories of modernity, and provides new approaches to canonical American authors from the past two centuries.
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Discourse Of Natural History

by Juliana Chow

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 This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Discourse Of Natural History

by Juliana Chow

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 This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
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Sound Recording Technology And American Literature - From The Phonograph To The Remix

by Jessica E. Teague

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 This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.
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Postwar American Fiction And The Rise Of Modern Conservatism - A Literary History, 1945-2008

by Bryan M. Santin

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 This book presents a new contextualization of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between progressive liberalism and highbrow literary fiction in the post-sixties United States must be understood in relation to the rise of modern conservatism and its evolving positions on race.
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Wild Abandon - American Literature And The Identity Politics Of Ecology

by Alexander Menrisky

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 Wild Abandon serves scholars and students of American literature, environment, and postwar history. It chronicles the environmental movement's development and interaction with identity politics in the late 20th century, focusing on psychoanalysis's influence on environmentalism, and its impact on literary representations of nature and ecology.
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Postwar American Fiction And The Rise Of Modern Conservatism - A Literary History, 1945â€“2008

by Bryan M. Santin

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 This book presents a new contextualization of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between progressive liberalism and highbrow literary fiction in the post-sixties United States must be understood in relation to the rise of modern conservatism and its evolving positions on race.
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Wild Abandon - American Literature And The Identity Politics Of Ecology

by Alexander (University Of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Menrisky

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 Wild Abandon serves scholars and students of American literature, environment, and postwar history. It chronicles the environmental movement's development and interaction with identity politics in the late 20th century, focusing on psychoanalysis's influence on environmentalism, and its impact on literary representations of nature and ecology.
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American Literature And Immediacy - Literary Innovation And The Emergence Of Photography, Film, And Television

by Heike Schaefer

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 This book combines close literary readings with detailed considerations of visual media to demonstrate that key American authors of the past two centuries created new literary forms by reworking the immediacy effects of photography, film, and TV. It will appeal to scholars of American literature.
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Nineteenth-Century American Women'S Serial Novels

by Dale M. Bauer

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 This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. It addresses how American literature scholars engaged with expanding the range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women's novels, especially as those fictions are available on HathiTrust and other digital services.
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American Literature And Immediacy - Literary Innovation And The Emergence Of Photography, Film, And Television

by Heike Schaefer

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 This book combines close literary readings with detailed considerations of visual media to demonstrate that key American authors of the past two centuries created new literary forms by reworking the immediacy effects of photography, film, and TV. It will appeal to scholars of American literature.
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Nineteenth-Century American Women'S Serial Novels

by Dale M. (University Of Illinois) Bauer

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 This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. It addresses how American literature scholars engaged with expanding the range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women's novels, especially as those fictions are available on HathiTrust and other digital services.
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Rethinking Sympathy And Human Contact In Nineteenth-Century American Literature - Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson

by Marianne Noble

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 The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
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Rethinking Sympathy And Human Contact In Nineteenth-Century American Literature - Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson

by Marianne (American University, Washington Dc) Noble

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 The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
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Counterfeit Culture - Truth And Authenticity In The American Prose Epic Since 1960

by Rob (University Of Exeter) Turner

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 Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American literature.
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Practices Of Surprise In American Literature After Emerson

by Kate (University Of Western Ontario) Stanley

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 This book traces an aesthetics of surprise through the work of major modernist writers and pragmatist philosophers who aimed to harness the experience of the unexpected in their writing and to transmit it to readers. It will serve scholars seeking new perspectives on the relationship between literature and philosophy and literary modernism.
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Politics And Skepticism In Antebellum American Literature

by Dominic Mastroianni

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 This volume explores the way in which antebellum American writers perceived the political implications of modern philosophical skepticism. Dominic Mastroianni offers new readings of six major American authors - Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass and Jacobs - and illumines their thinking about revolution, civil war, and the world's susceptibility to transformation.
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