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Diane C McPhail
The French Innkeeper's Daughter

Exiled from her home in rural, 18th century France, a resilient young woman journeys through the forests of Normandy, to the oppressive poverty of pre-Revolutionary Paris, and ultimately to her destiny as…

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David J Vázquez
Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.

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Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions -- by what happens "behind our backs." Chal…

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F Scott Fitzgerald
On Booze

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Bo…

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Eliot Now

Eliot Now -the first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliot's recently published Complete Prose and Poems-combines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into 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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James E Caron,
Comic Belles Lettres

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American humor---such as Old Southwest humorists and literary comedians---to provide a richer ana…

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Diane C McPhail
Follow the Stars Home

A captivating reimagining of the intrepid woman who -- 8 months pregnant and with a toddler in tow -- braved violent earthquakes and treacherous waters on the first steamboat voyage to conquer the Mississ…

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Jewell Parker Rhodes
Magic City

"A compelling page-turner that will keep readers hoping against hope that everything will somehow, magically, turn out for the best." --- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWith a new Afterword from th…

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Jamaica Kincaid
Putting Myself Together

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write. This collection of Jamai…

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Jamaica Kincaid
Putting Myself Together

My ignorance was on my side. I wasn't afraid. I didn't know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write. This collection of Jamai…

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Essential Papers on Literature and Psychoanalysis

Collection of essays featuring contributions from Sigmund Freud, Steven Marcus, Patrick J. Mahony, Donald P. Spence, Otto Rank, Ernest Jones, Ernst Kris, Phyllis Greenacre, Florence Bonime and Marianne H.…

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We Are Nature Defending Itself

In the words of series editor Steven L. Davis, We Are Nature Defending Itself: An Anthology of Women on Bodies, Borders, and Place is "a revelation, a multicultural blend of well-known and emerging w…

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Michael Dellaira (geb. 1949)

The Leopard (Oper in 2 Akten)

Kim Josephson, Robynne Redmon, Frank Ragsdale, Kevin Short, Frost Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz

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Aaron Colton
Writing Through Writer's Block

Recent fiction is teeming with blocked writers: from John Updike's Henry Bech to Stephen King's Paul Sheldon and Mike Noonan. From David Foster Wallace's Mark Nechtr to the autofictional figures of Jordan…

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Rafael Walker
Realism After the Individual

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age.Reali…

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Donald Barthelme
Sixty Stories

Sixty Stories brings together Barthelme's most famous works and hidden gems-a dazzling, subversive collection where language bends, reality warps, and the absurd reigns supreme.With these subversive, razo…

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Andrea Long Chu
Authority

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical es…

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Donald Barthelme
Forty Stories

Witty, surreal, and endlessly inventive, Forty Stories is Barthelme at his finest-dismantling convention, bending language, and turning fiction into pure mischief.Donald Barthelme is a master of the unexp…

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Kyle Minor
How to Disappear and Why

From acclaimed fiction writer Kyle Minor emerges a collection of essays all about disappearing.Considering a wide scope of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, Minor assem…

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