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Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana's Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers
A Bilingual Edition
Bruce, ClintCollected here for the first time, seventy-nine poems published in the Civil War–era Afro-Creole New Orleans newspapers L’Union and La Tribune—most unavailable...
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,...
East-West Exchange and Late Modernism
Williams, Moore, Pound
Qian, ZhaomingIn East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism...
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...
The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, Knight, Denise D.One of the leading intellectuals of first-wave feminism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman [1860-1935] was a prolific socialist writer and lecturer. Nearly forgotten in the years...
Author and Printer in Victorian England
Dooley, Allan C. Author and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing...
The Letters of Matthew Arnold
1829-1859
Arnold, Matthew, Lang, Cecil Y.The University Press of Virginia edition of The Letters of Matthew Arnold, edited by Cecil Y. Lang, represents the most comprehensive and assiduously annotated collection of...
Dandyism
Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present
Gutkin, LenThe "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth...
Epistolary Histories
Letters, Fiction, Culture
Gilroy, Amanda, Verhoeven, Wil M.This innovative collection of essays participates in the ongoing debate about the epistolary form, challenging readers to rethink the traditional association between the letter...
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...
Professing Sincerity
Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading
Rosenbaum, Susan B.Sincerity—the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author—has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American...
Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction
Vickroy, LaurieIn an exploration of how contemporary fiction narratives represent trauma—that response to events so overwhelmingly intense that normal responses become impaired—Laurie Vickroy...
Spectacular Blackness
The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic
Ongiri, Amy AbugoExploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri...
Women, Epic, and Transition in British Romanticism
Beshero-Bondar, Elisa[Book description not available]
Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
Aronoff, EricThe term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to...
The Land without Shadows
Waberi, Abdourahman A.One of the first literary works to portray Djiboutians from their own point of view, The Land without Shadows is a collection of seventeen short stories. The author,...
Vanishing Lives
Style and Self in Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Yeats
Richardson, JamesOne of the characteristic features of Victorian poetry is dimness, a vanishing away-things blur with the motion of their passing, which seems inseparable from the mind's fading...
Reading for the Law
British Literary History and Gender Advocacy
Krueger, Christine L.Taking her title from the British term for legal study, "to read for the law," Christine L. Krueger asks how "reading for the law" as literary history contributes to the...
Milton among Spaniards
Duran, AngelicaFirmly grounded in literary studies but drawing on religious studies, translation studies, drama, and visual art, Milton among Spaniards is the first book-length exploration of...
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...
Arras Hanging
The Textile That Determined Early Modern Literature and Drama
Olson, Rebecca[Book description not available]
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....
Traumatic Possessions
The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance
Griffiths, Jennifer L.Studies of traumatic stress have explored the challenges to memory as a result of extreme experience, particularly in relation to the ways in which trauma resonates within the...
Wanted
The Outlaw in American Visual Culture
Hall, RachelAssembling a rich archive of images and texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of...