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1	Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now more books like this by Andrew Delbanco add to wishlist A collection of 11 essays by the noted literary critic and Columbia professor, considering subjects ranging from Edith Wharton to Thoreau to Kate Chopin. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Jack London and the Klondike; the genesis of an American writer more books like this by Franklin Dickerson Walker add to wishlist This book presents for the first time an accurate and detailed account of the young London's experiences in the famous gold rush that furnished the substance for his successful books. His exciting winter in the Yukon is re-created through quotations from his fiction, travel diaries, and the testimony of companions. Features a foreword by well ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.01! \| first editions \| SVS
3	A Calculus of Ezra Pound: Vocations of the American Sign more books like this by Philip Kuberski add to wishlist That the beauty of Ezra Pound's late Cantos can appear - on the same page - with the rankest anti-Semitism continues to be a problem worth serious discussion, as well as a problem in the understanding of modernism. Kuberski locates the central tension between Pound's poetry and his politics in the contrast between the poet's technical innovations ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions
4	Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies more books like this by Betsy Erkkila (Editor), Jay Grossman (Editor) add to wishlist * Explores Whitman's homosexuality in relation to his poetry, politics, and life * Includes work by Eve Sedgewick, Michael Moon, and Jonathan Arac These new essays reject the persistent tendency in Whitman studies to isolate his sexuality from his politics, and his poetry from both. The issue of his sexuality is instead brought into contact with a ... see all copies from $5.46! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 more books like this by Professor Jared Gardner add to wishlist When the colonies ceased to be colonies and became the United States, the new nation quickly discovered that it needed a new literary identity, something specifically American. In Master Plots, Jared Gardner examines the tangled intersection of racial and national discourses in early American narrative. While it is well known that the writers of ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $2.86! \| first editions
6	Whitman and the American Idiom more books like this by Mark Bauerlein add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present more books like this by Geoff Ward add to wishlist In this lively and provocative study, Geoff Ward puts forward the bold claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This is ParadiseTM, and American ideology imprisons as it inspires. The Writing of America shows ... see all copies from $4.74! new only from $25.08! \| SVS
8	Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity more books like this by J Gerald Kennedy add to wishlist In this highly readable book, J. Gerald Kennedy explores the imaginative process of five expatriate Americans--Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes--by showing how the experience of living in Paris shaped their careers and literary works. In a sensitive and lucid manner, Kennedy discusses the inner ... see all copies from $5.43! new only from $17.90! \| first editions \| SVS
9	American Literature and Culture, 1900-1960 more books like this by Gail McDonald add to wishlist This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it is 'big', 'new', 'rich', and 'free'. This book illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period; and, juxtaposes discussion of history, popular culture, literature and other art forms in ... see all copies from $11.76! new only from $15.70! \| SVS
10	Language, race and social class in Howells's America. more books like this by Elsa Nettels add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Making Americans: An Essay on Individualism and Money more books like this by Quentin Anderson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	American Audacity: Literary Essays North and South more books like this by Christopher E G Benfey add to wishlist One of the premier critics in contemporary American letters, Christopher Benfey has long been known for his incisive, probing essays appearing in such magazines as "The New York Review of Books", "The New Republic", and "The Times Literary Supplement", which together have helped to re-imagine the American literary canon. In "American Audacity", ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13	American Literature, American Culture more books like this by Gordon Hutner add to wishlist This anthology of American literary criticism focuses on the tradition of American literary criticism as cultural critique and includes essays which debate the social and political importance of American writing. These documents draw from the early years of the republic, through the 19th and 20th centuries. Their shared concerns are the terms on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.96!
14	Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic American Literature more books like this by Mitchell Meltzer add to wishlist The United States Constitution, battleground of a politically bifurcated nation and sponsor of that nation's now threatened cultural unity, is a quintessentially political document. Americans' representatives swear loyalty to it, and her soldiers die for it. Yet no one has ever seriously considered the formative influence this document, so central ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $44.23!
15 view cover	Stephen Crane; a study in American letters. more books like this by Thomas Beer add to wishlist If the definition that man is a laughing animal is true, then Crane was neither one nor the other. He was but a hurried visitor on this earth on which he had so little reason to be joyous. His first novel, "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," was considered a signpost in the development of literary realism and he also wrote many short stories in an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Hawthorne Melville and the American Character: A Looking-Glass Business more books like this by John P McWilliams, Jr., Albert Gelpi, PH.D. (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor) add to wishlist This book considers the portrayal of the American national character in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. It examines Hawthorne's abiding concern with the development of New England from colony to province to republic, and analyses Melville's changing evocation of 'the new American', and the difficulties he faced in ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $29.49! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Origins of American Literature Studies more books like this by Professor Elizabeth Renker add to wishlist Although American literature is now a standard subject in the American college curriculum, a century ago few people thought it should be taught there. Elizabeth Renker uncovers the complex historical process through which American literature overcame its image of aesthetic and historical inferiority to become an important field for academic study ... see all copies from $47.50! new only from $47.50! \| first editions
18 view cover	The New North American Studies more books like this by Winfried Siemerling add to wishlist In this original and ground-breaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of recognition and identity, rejecting previous nationalized thinking to approach North American cultural transformations from transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives. Using material from the United States and Canada as case studies and drawing on a ... see all copies from $4.66! new only from $30.68!
19	DOS Passos: Artist as American more books like this by Linda Wagner-Martin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction After Moby-Dick, 1851-1857 more books like this by William V Spanos add to wishlist Argues that Herman Melville's later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U.S.-led global "war in terror." see all copies from $22.95! new only from $22.95! \| SVS
21	Henry James; a collection of critical essays. more books like this by Leon Edel (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
22	The Only Kangaroo more books like this by Karl Keller add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The American Ideal: Literary History as a Worldly Activity more books like this by Peter Carafiol add to wishlist The American Ideal argues that the institution of American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary view of history, of narrative, and a reactionary and dangerous view of America itself. It examines the way the idea of 'America' has been wrapped up with American literary history and unwraps the implications of that relationship for ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $69.92! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Literary Quest for an American National Character more books like this by Finn Pollard add to wishlist 'What then is the American, this new man?' This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of ... see all copies from $65.00! new only from $81.82! \| first editions
25 view cover	National Identities-P more books like this by Professor Donald E Pease (Editor), Donald E Pease (Editor), Ross Posnock (Contributions by) add to wishlist National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners," the homeless) from whom the property of nationness has been ... see all copies from $7.42! new only from $8.48!

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