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"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching Margaret Atwood’s fiction and poetry. Addresses topics including gender, the......more

A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of ......more

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Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaim......more

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaim......more

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Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a versatile Jamaican American writer and poet and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissanc......more

Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a versatile Jamaican American writer and poet and a central figure in the Harlem Renaissanc......more

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Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970 is an exploration of a number of Sout......more

SINCLAIR LEWIS: THE 1920s AND THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN IDENTITY argues the importance of words, ideas, and values in scul......more

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"In El Mundo Zurdo I with my own affinities and my people with theirs can live together and transform the planet." -Glor......more

Readers encounter the environment through literature in ways not available to everyday perception. This is especially cl......more

The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay distinguishes itself by the wide range and scope of its themes, voices and approach......more

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet’s extraordinary work. Includes unpublish......more

A goldmine of treasures grant access into this twentieth century modernist poet’s extraordinary work. Includes unpublish......more

Unearth the vibrant tapestry of 19th century literature through a lens that intertwines Jewish cultural studies with the......more

In the shadowed corridors of early American history, where literary giants once roamed, emerges a narrative that has bee......more

In the heart of the eighteenth-century, amidst the bustling streets of London and the rugged landscapes of Scotland, eme......more

Susana S. Martínez’s Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail maps the contours of agency in young adult literature invol......more

Susana S. Martínez’s Coming of Age(ncy) on the Migrant Trail maps the contours of agency in young adult literature invol......more

American poets were at the core of the modernist movement, a position largely contingent on their being in Europe. But w......more

This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King’s now-familiar American imagin......more

This anthology showcases poems by writers who honor the virtues of the original New York School poets: Frank O’Hara, Joh......more

The book presents twentieth-century Polish literature as an example of Eastern European modernism while foregrounding th......more

Examines the role of the body in Indigenous-language religious texts from colonial Latin America Words Made Flesh examin......more

Nightmares of the National Imaginary explores how Canadian literature challenges and complicates our national identity. ......more

A New York Times Notable Book A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile......more

A number of Black writers have drawn inspiration from the biblical tale of the expulsion from paradise. In this deeply i......more

A survey of classic literature from Chile born of the repressive Pinochet dictatorship in the seventies. Though the civi......more

This volume presents Ralph Waldo Emerson’s engagement with diverse philosophical traditions with the concurrent aim of s......more

This work reexamines Madeleine: An Autobiography, a controversial bestseller first published in 1919 that documented the......more

This collection brings together both academic and personal essays to explore the strange, unconventional, and often surr......more

Martha H. Patterson’s The Harlem Renaissance Weekly offers a groundbreaking study of the Black literary renaissance that......more

In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for......more

"The multifaceted, cubist, and comprehensive perspective of Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway appears on the fort......more

The 1917 Halifax Explosion all but destroyed a thriving book-publishing industry centred in Halifax and Saint John. In t......more

This book examines the evolution of the female lyric body in Western culture through the figure of Helen of Troy, focusi......more

Out of the roughly five hundred shorter works of fiction that L.M. Montgomery published in periodicals between 1895 and ......more

Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952-2016), a prominent Latina writer, was, among various recognitions, nominated for a Pulitzer Pri......more

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With perceptions of reality in the 21st-century increasingly seen as pluralistic and a matter of interpretation, this op......more