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The flamboyant and irascible Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) wrote twenty books including, most notably, Because I Was Flesh......more
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This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews ......more
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John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time......more
John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques. At a time......more
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In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers......more
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Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market begins from the premise that nineteenth-century life writing cir......more
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The significant archive of writing that came out of the women’s liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1......more
The significant archive of writing that came out of the women’s liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1......more
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Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers ......more
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This series presents critical views on the most widely studied writers of short fiction. Each volume includes overviews ......more
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Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald ......more
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This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults, including such nota......more
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The eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms that rapidly expanded, and the relation......more
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The contemporary rethinking and relearning of history and racism has sparked creative approaches for teaching the histor......more
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To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eig......more
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How ordinary forms of writing--including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines--shaped the way colonial subjects u......more
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