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Polygraphies
Francophone Women Writing Algeria
Rice, AlisonCoinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most...
Paradigm and Parody
Images of Creativity in French Romanticism - Vigny, Hugo, Balzac, Gautier, Musset
Majewski, Henry F.[Book description not available]
Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel
Pearl, Jason H.Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary...
The Genius of John Ruskin
Selections from His Writings
Rosenberg, John D.No figure among the Victorians surpasses John Ruskin in magnitude of genius, modernity of message, or mastery of prose. Yet for the first half-century after his death in 1900,...
Not Only War
A Story of Two Great Conflicts
Daly, Victor, Davis, David A. Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts is the only World War I novel written by an African American veteran. In the book, Montgomery Jason, an idealistic African...
Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire
English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century
Kaul, SuvirIn Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire, Suvir Kaul argues that the aggressive nationalism of James Thomson's ode "Rule, Britannia!" (1740) is the condition to which much English...
Louisa S McCord
Poems, Drama, Biography, Letters
Lounsbury, Richard C.Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the...
The Romantic Subject in Autobiography
Rousseau and Goethe
Stelzig, Eugene L.Although the literature of modern subjectivity has its sources in the Renaissance and manifests itself in texts as early as Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's Hamlet,...
John Henry Ingram's Poe Collection at the University of Virginia
Reilly, John E.[Book description not available]
Best New Poets 2015
50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Smith, Tracy K.Praise for earlier editions: "[A] reminder that contemporary poetry is not only alive and well but continuing to grow."-- Publishers Weekly "[These poets]...
The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen
Mclendon, Jacquelyn Y.McLendon shows how the nineteenth-century stereotype of the tragic mulatto as invented by white writers became both a political tool and an artistic device in the capable hands...
Invited Guest
An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Southern Poetry
Rigsbee, David, Brown, Steven FordMencken's stinging characterization of the American South as "the Sahara of the Bozart" reflects an understandable frustration with the narrow view of the canon of southern...
Between the Novel and the News
The Emergence of American Women's Writing
Edelstein, SariWhile American literary history has long acknowledged the profound influence of journalism on canonical male writers, Sari Edelstein argues that American women writers were...
Recollections of a Happy Life
Being the Autobiography of Marianne North
Morgan, SusanMarianne North was a Victorian figure of some consequence. An amateur botanist and painter, she journeyed to the world's farthest reaches, to its ancient and new civilizations...
Wandering Memory
Dominique, Jan J.The daughter of Haitian journalist and pro-democracy activist Jean Léopold Dominique, who was assassinated in 2000, Jan J. Dominique offers a memoir that provides a uniquely...
The Golden Avant-Garde
Idolatry, Commercialism, and Art
Sassower, Raphael, Cicotello, LouisSince the eighteenth century, artists--especially so-called avant-garde artists--have played a conflicting role in society. Part of the reason for their complex position, argue...
Studies in Bibliography, Volume 56
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Vander Meulen, David L.The fifty-sixth volume of Studies continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of articles by international scholars on bibliography, textual criticism, and other aspects...
The Providence of Wit
Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts
Battestin, Martin C.[Book description not available]
Neoliberal Nonfictions
The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z
Worden, DanielWith the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures governing private lives became more opaque and obscure. Neoliberal...
Steinbeck in Vietnam
Dispatches from the War
Steinbeck, John, Barden, Thomas E.Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-...
Plotting Women
Case, AlisonIs there such a thing as a "woman's voice" in fiction? In the context of feminist criticism, this question is far more problematic than critics once believed. Beyond asking...
Only for the Eye of a Friend
The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton
Mulford, CarlaKnown among the Middle Atlantic intelligentsia and literati as a witty and versatile writer, considered by George Washington and the Chevalier de La Luzerne a gracious and...
Lawrence among the Women
Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions
Siegel, Carol[Book description not available]
A Literary Guide to Washington, DC
Walking in the Footsteps of American Writers from Francis Scott Key to Zora Neale Hurston
Roberts, KimThe site of a thriving literary tradition, Washington, DC, has been the home to many of our nation’s most acclaimed writers. From the city’s founding to the beginnings of...
Journal of Emily Shore
Gates, Barbara TimmEmily Shore's journal is the unique self-representation of a prodigious young Victorian woman. From July 5, 1831, at the age of eleven, until June 24, 1839, two weeks before...