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Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360177
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture
Omnicompetent Modernists
Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817360610
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
An innovative exploration of early twentieth-century avant-garde poetry’s relationship to the public sphere
No One to Meet
Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817321413
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitioner
Writing into the Future
New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817360498
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry
Jack London and the Sea
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321253
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer
A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle
Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817321321
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
A study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England
Indians Playing Indian
Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360672
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360597
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities
The Great Beyond
Art in the Age of Annihilation
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321260
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality—forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360535
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster
Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360177
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
Examines how representations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s character and persona in works of African American literature have evolved and reflect the changing values and mores of African American culture
Omnicompetent Modernists
Poetry, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780817360610
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
An innovative exploration of early twentieth-century avant-garde poetry’s relationship to the public sphere
No One to Meet
Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780817321413
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitioner
Writing into the Future
New American Poetries from "The Dial" to the Digital
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780817360498
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
A career-spanning collection of essays from a leading scholar of avant-garde poetry
Jack London and the Sea
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9780817321253
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
The first book-length study of London as a maritime writer
A Weak Woman in a Strong Battle
Women and Public Execution in Early Modern England
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9780817321321
Pub Date: August 2022
Format: Hardcover
A study of the depictions of women's executions in Renaissance England
Indians Playing Indian
Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360672
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
Explores how American Indian artists have responded to the pervasive misunderstanding of indigenous peoples as cultural minorities in the United States and Canada
Haunting Realities
Naturalist Gothic and American Realism
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360597
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities
The Great Beyond
Art in the Age of Annihilation
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9780817321260
Pub Date: May 2022
Format: Hardcover
Essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality—forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more
Zombiescapes and Phantom Zones
Ecocriticism and the Liminal from "Invisible Man" to "The Walking Dead"
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780817360535
Pub Date: April 2022
Format: Paperback
A study of the natural world as imagined by contemporary writers, specifically their portrayals of nature as monster