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Mark B Kelley
Crimes Against Feeling

Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century AmericaPirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national iden…

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Naama Harel
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

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Representations and Uses of the American Revolution in Past and Present

Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie - Band 25

Undoubtedly, the American Revolution is the founding moment of the United States of America. However, it also had major repercussions outside the U.S., as an inspiration for independence and social moveme…

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Brinda J Mehta
The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critica…

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Jesse Zuba
The First Book

"A fascinating story of poetic debuts. With nuanced understanding as well as clear-eyed realism, Jesse Zuba traces the self-fashioning that goes into the making of careers, allowing poets to strike a…

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Mark B Kelley
Crimes Against Feeling

Demonstrating how emotion became central to the legal and literary meanings of piracy in nineteenth-century AmericaPirates have long occupied a central yet unstable place in American law and national iden…

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Jeffrey Meyers
Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway

The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fortieth anniversary of Meyers's magisterial biography of Hemingway. This approach has ne…

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Phillip Lopate
A Washington Irving Sketch Book

A richly textured portrait of an American man of letters who came to exemplify the writer's life with all its setbacks and triumphsWashington Irving (1783--1859) is often considered America's first profes…

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Angela Carter's Pasts

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.Examining a broad range of Carter's work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the…

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Exploring Edith Wharton's engagement with global issues in her life and writingHailed for her remarkable social and psychological insights into the Gilded Age lives of privileged Americans, Edith Wharton,…

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Simon Estok,
The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change

Examining how water appears to humanity (its forms) and how humanity apprehends it (our perceptual horizons), this book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship…

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Emily McAvan,
Pollution Theory

Using speculative modes like science fiction novels, film and modernist painting, this book investigates the ways that pollution has come to define every aspect of material life in the Anthropocene.Offeri…

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Marcel Proust, Helen Constantine, Adam Watt
Sodom and Gomorrah

'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident'The fourth volume…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Naama Harel
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

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William H Pritchard
On Frost and Eliot

Named a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice ReviewsRobert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But they …

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Andrew Harrison
The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis: Paleface

The Collected Works of Wyndham Lewis brings together for the first time all of the published writings of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), a major contributor to literary modernism and one of the most important …

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Anna Jones Abramson
Novel Atmospheres

Coming soon: Novel Atmospheres by Anna Jones Abramson.

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Short Story as World Literature

Literatures as World Literature

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story …

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J. Machtenberg
Dis/United States of Vulnerability

American Studies - A Monograph Series - Band 330

How has the condition of vulnerability shaped the U.S. literary and cultural sphere since the 1960s? Against the backdrop of the Cold War era with its emerging counter-cultural liberation movements and an…

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