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This edited collection of Civil War correspondence between Col. Thomas Cahill and his wife, Margaret, offers a rare glim......more

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway document the life and creative development of a gifted artist and legendary personality ......more

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis--the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ--was as colorful and even......more

Volume thirteen of the Correspondence of James K. Polk documents a critical juncture in the history of North America. Th......more

Jazz Fiction traces the history of jazz stories and novels from the beginning to the present and provides discussions of......more

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Judge Learned Hand is an icon of American Law. Though he was never nominated to our country’s highest court, Hand is nev......more

In this re-evaluation of the writings of Joseph Conrad, Michael Greaney places language and narrative at the heart of hi......more

John T. Lysaker works between and weaves together questions and replies in philosophical psychology, Emerson studies, an......more

This exceptional collection provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-19......more

Meticulously edited and contextualized, Dean s edition of Woolson s complete letters opens the door to an extraordinaril......more

This book collects the letters written between 1906 and 1932 by novelist and civil rights activist Charles W. Chesnutt (......more

How do women writers cope with changes and juggle the demands in their already full lives to make time for their lives a......more

To celebrate The American Scholar’s thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty represe......more

This collection of correspondence between Clemens and Rogers may be thought of as a continuation of Mark Twain s Letters......more

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Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body takes a serious look at Dante’s relation to Latin grammar and the new "mother ......more

Almost all Gilman’s work asserts optimistically the possibility for utopian change, yet ironically she is probably most ......more

This collection of essays reflects on the urgent theological questions of our day. They also present a commendation of t......more

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While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of ’stock-taking’ or ’retrospective’ look at Emers......more

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Modern French Identities focuses on the French and Francophone writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whos......more

This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. The letter......more

Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose......more

An indispensable collection of one of America s most outspoken and original critics of the second half of the twentieth ......more

Widely praised for his recent translations of Boethius and Ariosto, David R. Slavitt returns to Ovid, once again bringin......more

"It’s probably his age that makes the worrying worse. But he can’t help picking up on every detail that ruins his day, s......more

Narrative Medicine: New and Selected Essays, by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA, contains the thoughtful curation of the author’......more

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Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on c......more

Few scholars have so seamlessly blended rigorous criticism with creative expression as Professor Nkengasong did througho......more

Celebrating the brief life of a young scholar dedicated to Steinbeck studies, this collection gathers essays from variou......more

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This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literatur......more

A career retrospective of poetry and prose works by one of the under-recognized giants of French literature André du Bou......more

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The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, available for the first time nearly half a century after his death in 1952, is the st......more

In Cormac McCarthy’s Neoliberalism: Breakdown in Mercantile Ethics, editor Brian James Schill gathers insightful essays ......more

All This Thinking explores the deep friendship and the critical and creative thinking between Bernadette Mayer and Clark......more

Hole Studies is a book about care and the forms it may take. An essay collection on writing and labor, art and activism,......more

Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, Kenneth McClane’s first book of autobiographical essays (originally published in 1991), is clo......more

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Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled poète maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ig......more

Laurence Sterne remains one of the towering figures of eighteenth-century life and literature, and a continuing influent......more

Helen Vendler may be America s most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler......more

Making available what is perhaps the longest-running diary in existence, Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall, 1838......more

A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, ......more

Charles L. Dodgson s publications on political subjects offer a very different view of Lewis Carroll, the man made famou......more

This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area o......more

This work provides the first full-scale examination of the eighteenth century periodical Political Controversy and of th......more

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In 1899 a chartered yacht, the Casco, brought to Honolulu Robert Louis Stevenson and his family. The writer was then alr......more

This volume brings together generous selections from his major texts: Time and Free Will, Matter and Memory, Creative Ev......more

A rich trove of letters from Edith Wharton to her governess, written over the course of their long and affectionate frie......more

The broad range of A.M. Klein’s interests, ideas, and activities is reflected in this selection of articles, editorials,......more

A Quirin Pinyin Updated Editions (QPUE) Alfred Forke’s unsurpassed translation and annotation of the Lunheng 論衡 has been......more

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This remarkable collection of private correspondence between Emma Darwin and members of her family, published in 1904, p......more

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This book provides wide ranging and comprehensive biographical sketches of forty-two doctors who are best known to the p......more

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In this brilliant collection, a renowned critic vividly depicts the dynamic relationships between authors, their work, a......more

The agonizing correspondence between Jewish family members ensnared in the Nazi grip and their American relatives Just a......more

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Written at different times and for different audiences - some for scholars of rabbinic literature, some for laymen or fo......more

The Odeon, a new volume of essays by the celebrated poet and critic Daniel Tobin, takes its title from the classical Gre......more