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'I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuries'
The Professor's House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history professor at a midwestern state university who is...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-09
Format(s) : PDF
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'I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuries'
The Professor's House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history professor at a midwestern state university who is...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-09
Format(s) : ePub
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Edith Wharton’s sensitively observed portraits of women’s lives a century ago resonate into the present day, captivating readers now as they did then. Threaded throughout her accounts is a rich seam of secrets and silences that reveals Wharton’s keen grasp of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'
Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-18
Format(s) : ePub
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'Can't repeat the past? ... Why of course you can!'
Often called 'the great American novel', F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a story of adulterous love, dreams, and betrayal among the super-rich in 1920s New York. The mysterious and wealthy Jay Gatsby throws...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-12-12
Format(s) : PDF
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This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black Consciousness Movement, in addition to its urgent political focus,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-12-03
Collection :
Critical South
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This book offers the first full-length study of Henry James's relationship with, and literary treatment of, New York. It shows how the city, whether observed or reimagined, always remained an essential component of James's identity. New York compelled James to confront...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In der 4. Auflage ist das Buch umfassend neu konzipiert worden. Neben den Kapiteln von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne, die als Klassiker in der Amerikanistik gelten und nur wenig verändert beibehalten werden, sind alle anderen Kapitel entweder neu geschrieben oder...
Editeur : J.B. Metzler
Parution : 2024-07-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A look at the first five decades of 20th century American literature, covering a wide range of literary works, figures, and influencesA History of American Literature 1900-1950 is a current and well-balanced account of the main literary figures, connections, and ideas...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2024-05-13
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Histories of American Literature
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-03-28
Format(s) : PDF
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This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms....
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-03-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-01-30
Format(s) : ePub
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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : PDF
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More than a century after his death, Walt Whitman remains a fresh phenomenon. Startling discoveries and massive transcription efforts are enabling new insights into his life and achievements. In the past few years new breakthroughs have proliferated, including the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Provides the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on the multiethnic literature of the United States A Companion to the Multiethnic Literature of the United States isthe first in-depth reference work dedicated to the histories, genres, themes, cultural contexts,...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2023-12-27
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-11-09
Format(s) : PDF
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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-09-14
Format(s) : PDF
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This study presents Moby-Dick as a novel with three distinct but interconnecting stories: Ishmael’s, which he shares ten years after it has taken place; Ahab’s, which is Ishmael's account of the memorable captain of a whaling ship; and a third which centres on whales...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-09-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the founding of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-09-06
Format(s) : ePub
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What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces some of ways that Americans across the nineteenth century understood the perversions tyranny introduced into both their...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-08-29
Format(s) : ePub
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