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Going by Contraries
Robert Frost's Conflict with Science
Hass, Robert BernardOne of the most vexing problems facing American modernist poets was how to find a place for poetry and religion in a culture that considered science its most reliable source of...
Sifilografía
A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World
González Espitia, Juan CarlosSyphilis was a prevalent affliction in the era of the Americas’ colonization, creating widespread anxiety that is indicated in the period’s literature across numerous fields....
Under Construction
The Body in Spanish Novels
Scarlett, Elizabeth A.Using modern feminist and narratological tools of analysis, Elizabeth Scarlett offers illuminating insights into the terms of embodiment in novels by numerous Spanish authors....
Something Understood
Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler
Burt, Stephanie, Halpern, NickHelen Vendler may be America’s most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also...
Acts of Narrative Resistance
Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
Beard, Laura J.This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation....
Male Armor
The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture
Adams, Jon RobertThere is no shortage of iconic masculine imagery of the soldier in American film and literature—one only has to think of George C. Scott as Patton in front of a giant American...
Studies in Bibliography, Volume 57
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Vander Meulen, David L.[Book description not available]
The Illiberal Imagination
Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel
Shapiro, Joe The Illiberal Imagination offers a synthetic, historical formalist account of how—and to what end—U.S. novels from the late eighteenth century to the mid-1850s...
Women and British Aestheticism
Schaffer, TaliaThis collection of essays introduces new scholarship on the women novelists, poets, fiction writers, essayists, lifestyle experts, and critics who played a central and long-...
Margins and Marginality
The Printed Page in Early Modern England
Tribble, Evelyn B.Increasing interest is being shown in the intersections between literary and cultural history and in the material dimensions of the text. Evelyn B. Tribble argues that far from...
Reading Trauma Narratives
The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression
Vickroy, LaurieAs part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and...
Violence, Silence, and Anger
Women's Writing as Transgression
Lashgari, DeirdreTwenty contributors consider violence in the works of such acclaimed writers as Adrienne Rich, Harriet Jacobs, Virgnia Woolf, and Audre Lorde, and such too little known authors...
Imitation Nation
Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature
Richards, JasonHow did early Americans define themselves? The American exceptionalist perspective tells us that the young republic rejected Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans...
The Romantic Comedians
Glasgow, EllenIn The Romantic Comedians Ellen Glasgow takes the familiar story of the cuckold and raises it to a new leve. Her sixty-five-year-old male protagonist, the recently widowed...
The Circus and Victorian Society
Assael, BrendaIt was during the Victorian era that the circus, whose origins lay in the fairground world, emerged as a commercialized entertainment that we would recognize today. This...
Second Person Singular
Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse
Harrington, EmilyEmily Harrington offers a new history of women’s poetry at the turn of the century that breaks from conventional ideas of nineteenth-century lyric, which focus on individual...
Promises Broken
Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England
Frost, Ginger S.In the nineteenth century, a woman who could prove a man had broken his promise to marry her was legally entitled to compensation for damages. Bridging the gap between history...
Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America
Price, Kenneth M., Smith, Susan BelascoCovering the decades from the 1830s through the end of the century, as well as the eastern, southern, and western regions of the United States, these essays, by a diverse group...
Acting Naturally
Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity
Voskuil, Lynn M.In Acting Naturally Lynn Voskuil argues that Victorian Britons saw themselves as "authentically performative," a paradoxical belief that focused their sense of vocation...
The Angel out of the House
Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England
Elliott, Dorice WilliamsWas nineteenth-century British philanthropy the "truest and noblest woman’s work" and praiseworthy for having raised the nation’s moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission...
The Modern Portrait Poem
From Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound
Dickey, FrancesIn The Modern Portrait Poem, Frances Dickey recovers the portrait as a poetic genre from the 1860s through the 1920s. Combining literary and art history, she examines...
The Victorian Illustrated Book
Maxwell, RichardThroughout the nineteenth century, but most intensely in the reign of Queen Victoria, England and Scotland produced an unprecedented range of extraordinary illustrated books....
The Language of Flowers
A History
Seaton, BeverlyThe author traces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and...
The Anguish of Displacement
The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park
Powell, Katrina M.Following Congress’s approval of the creation of Shenandoah National Park in 1926, displaced Virginia mountain families wrote to U.S. government officials requesting various...
Mourning El Dorado
Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics
Rogers, CharlotteWhat ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues that El Dorado has not been forgotten...