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John Edgar Wideman
Languages of Home

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman's most influential essays and articles, five decades of cultural and literary criticism that paint a vivid portrait of America's changing landscape and chro…

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Maria Wiehe
Erzählte Religion und religiöses Erzählen

Lettre

Welche narrativen Funktionen haben religiöse Bezüge in Erzähltexten? Am Beispiel der Chicana/o-Literatur geht Maria Wiehe dieser Frage nach und bietet tiefe Einblicke in einen Kulturkreis, der von kolonia…

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Ira Nadel
The American Sentence

"A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - t…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams is rendered in a lyrical pros…

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Lawrence Buell
Henry David Thoreau

Very Short Introductions

"When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..."Henry Da…

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John Updike,
Selected Letters of John Updike

The arc of literary giant John Updike's life emerges in these luminous daily letters to family, friends, editors, and lovers---a remarkable outpouring over six decades, from his earliest consciousness as …

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Pamela Smith Hill
Too Good to Be Altogether Lost

Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were "too good to be altogether lost." And those stories seemed far from being l…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Susan L Roberson
Geographies of Travel

Travel writing was the most popular genre of writing in the nineteenth century. Initially published in newspapers and journals as dispatches from the road, these works allowed readers to join in on fabulo…

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Diana Clarke
The Hop

?The Hop is a fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down.??Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning America Pick Of…

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Mary Alice Monroe
Where the Rivers Merge

"1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. A free spirit, she refuse…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

One of the best-known classics of American literature, Mark Twain's indelible novel of boyhood, friendship, and adventure.Few works of fiction are more known and beloved for keenly documenting the triumph…

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Mary Alice Monroe
Where the Rivers Merge

"1908: The Lowcountry of South Carolina is at the cusp of change. Mayfield, the grand estate held for generations by the Rivers family, is the treasured home of young Eliza. A free spirit, she refuse…

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Rethinking Kerouac

"Esteemed Beat commentators examine Kerouac's classic works, like On the Road, alongside more obscure ones; they bring to light new facets of Kerouac's life and work, including his excursions into pa…

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Angela Flournoy
The Wilderness

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION"Flournoy has delivered a future classic---the kind of novel that generations to co…

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Mary Alice Monroe
Where the Rivers Merge

USA TODAYBESTSELLER"Wade into the Lowcountry of South Carolina with Mary Alice Monroe's sweeping Southern epic."---People"This is book club fiction at its finest! " ---Lisa Wingate, #1…

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Kerry Dodd
Encountering Material Culture Through Archaeological Fiction

Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narr…

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Lila Cain
The Blackbirds of St. Giles

From the brutal horrors of Jamaican plantations to the teeming streets of 19th century London, through lavish manor houses and across dangerous seas, escaped enslaved siblings survive the American War of …

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¡Somos Tejanas!

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays.

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