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The Problem of Profit
Finance and Feeling in Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Genovese, MichaelAttacks against the pursuit of profit in eighteenth-century Britain have been largely read as reactions against market activity in general or as critiques of financial...
Evangelical Gothic
The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula
Herbert, Christopher Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel....
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 New Death
American Modernism and World War I
James, PearlAdopting the term "new death," which was used to describe the unprecedented and horrific scale of death caused by the First World War, Pearl James uncovers several touchstones...
You Come Too
My Journey with Robert Frost
Francis, Lesley LeeRobert Frost observed in his wife, Elinor, a desire to live "a life that goes rather poetically." The same could be said of many members of the Frost family, over several...
A Blue Moon in Poorwater
Hankla, CathrynCathryn Hankla's first novel is an engaging coming-of-age story set in the small Appalachian mining town of Poorwater, Virginia. It is the summer of 1968, and the narrator,...
The Correspondence of William James
William and Henry 1878-1884
James, William, Skrupskelis, Ignas K., Berkeley, Elizabeth M.This volume charts James's emergence into professional and personal maturity while chronicling the decisive steps he took toward resolving his notoriously protracted and...
Victorian Poetry As Cultural Critique
The Politics of Performative Language
Slinn, E. WarwickIn recent cultural studies, poetry has become something of a neglected genre. Warwick Slinn seeks to reverse that trend and argues that a fundamental continuity between the...
Faulkner
The Return of the Repressed
Fowler, DoreenDoreen Fowler's Faulkner: The Return of the Repressed is only the second book-length pychoanalytic interpretation of Faulkner's oeuvre and the first to be predicated on...
Speculative Enterprise
Public Theaters and Financial Markets in London, 1688–1763
Burkert, MattieIn the wake of the 1688 revolution, England’s transition to financial capitalism accelerated dramatically. Londoners witnessed the rise of credit-based currencies, securities...
Forest and Garden
Traces of Wildness in a Modernizing Land, 1897–1949
Simo, Melanie"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau. But how the wild and the managed or artificially arranged environments co-exist has been a matter of...
Character and Mourning
Woolf, Faulkner, and the Novel Elegy of the First World War
Penner, ErinIn response to the devastating trauma of World War I, British and American authors wrote about grief. The need to articulate loss inspired moving novels by Virginia Woolf and...
Barbaric Culture and Black Critique
Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic
Wheelock, Stefan M.In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to...
Civilization and Black Progress
Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South
Oldfield, J. R.Founder of the American Negro Academy, Alexander Crummell (1819–1898) played a pivotal role in later nineteenth-century debates over race and black intellect. Yet compared with...
African Americans and the Culture of Pain
King, Debra WalkerIn this compelling new study, Debra Walker King considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century...
Speaking Silences
Stillness and Voice in Modern Thought and Jewish Tradition
Ettin, Andrew VogelLanguage and silence have usually been understood as opposites and assigned different values, but which one is positive and which negative? Ranging widely across time and...
A Small Boy and Others
A Critical Edition
James, Henry, Collister, PeterHenry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "ideal...
Black Fascisms
African American Literature and Culture between the Wars
Thompson, Mark ChristianIn this provocative new book, Mark Christian Thompson addresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its...
Fettered Genius
The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights
Leonard, Keith D.In Fettered Genius, Keith D. Leonard identifies how African American poets’ use and revision of traditional poetics constituted an antiracist political agency. Comparing...
Studies in Bibliography, Volume 57
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Vander Meulen, David L.[Book description not available]
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...
Anecdotes of Enlightenment
Human Nature from Locke to Wordsworth
Wood, James Robert Anecdotes of Enlightenment is the first literary history of the anecdote in English. In this wide-ranging account, James Robert Wood explores the animating effects...
Postslavery Literatures in the Americas
Family Portraits in Black and White
Handley, George B.Since its demise in the nineteenth century, slavery has given rise to an outpouring of literatures that reflect the diversity of its hemispheric legacy, but the discipline of...
In Pursuit of Flavor
Lewis, EdnaPerhaps no other cook has played such a central role in the renaissance of traditional southern cooking as Edna Lewis. When asked who has influenced them most, chefs from New...
Best New Poets 2009
50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Addonizio, KimEntering its fourth year, Best New Poets has established itself as a crucial venue for rising poets and a valuable resource for poetry lovers. The only publication of...