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1	Contraveneno: Traiciones, Rupturas y Perdidas Afectivas, Intoxican el Alma: Este Libro Es un Antidoto more books like this by Carlos Cuauhtemoc Sanchez add to wishlist see all copies from $9.15! new only from $12.28! \| SVS
2	Melville: His World and Work more books like this by Andrew Delbanco add to wishlist Delbanco traces Melville's growth from bawdy storyteller through the spiritual preoccupations building up to "Moby-Dick," and the profound disillusionment of later works as he charts a life that left little evidence in its wake. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Virginia Woolf and the Real World more books like this by Alex Zwerdling add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $28.62! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project more books like this by Susan Buck-Morss add to wishlist Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. "In The Dialectics of Seeing", Susan Buck_Morss offers a reconstruction of the "Passagen- Werk", or "Arcades Project" as it might have taken form. see all copies from $18.83! new only from $31.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	L.M. Alcott: Signature of Reform more books like this by Madeleine B Stern (Editor) add to wishlist Beloved juvenile fiction writer and author of sensational thrillers, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was also an ardent champion of reform movements in nineteenth-century America. Inspired by her parents' zeal for the reforms of their day and influenced by a network of other New Englanders determined to remedy the many ills in American society, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
6	History of Utopian Thought more books like this by Joyce Oramel Hertzler add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $30.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Social Relations of Jonson's Theatre more books like this by Jonathan Haynes add to wishlist The author considers the Elizabethan playwright Ben Jonson a realist and an acute observer of the transformation from feudalism to capitalism with many of the forms and purposes of Jonson's realism resulting from the social dynamics of the London theater audience. Haynes presents a detailed literary historical argument about the sources and ... see all copies from $22.49! new only from $76.27!
8	Heretics and Hellraisers: Women Contributors to the Masses, 1911-1917 more books like this by Margaret C Jones add to wishlist The Masses was the most dynamic and influential left-wing magazine of the early twentieth century, a touchstone for understanding radical thought and social movements in the United States during that era. As a magazine that supported feminist issues, it played a crucial role in shaping public discourse about women's concerns. In this major ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe more books like this by Cindy Weinstein (Editor) add to wishlist Fresh, accessible and engaged, this is the most comprehensive introduction available to Stowe's work. see all copies from $3.88! new only from $6.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Politics of Voice: Liberalism and Social Criticism from Franklin to Kingston more books like this by Malini Johar Schueller add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954: Some Interrelations of Literature and Society more books like this by Professor Walter B Rideout add to wishlist This study examines the relationship between society and literature and shows how the proletarian novel, a literary phenomenon of the 1930s, was a reflection of current interest in revolutionary Marxism. Also discussed are the reasons why literary critics of the following decades dismissed these writings as bizarre and improbable and questioned ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12	History and Value more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode add to wishlist Frank Kermode returns to the literature of his youth to ask why we appear to have forgotten how urgent and powerful it seemed in a time of economic crisis and imminent world war. The general questions suggested by the title are answered first by a study of bourgeois left wing literature in the 1930s - including a case study of a forgotten novel of ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $37.39! \| SVS
13	Reading Faulkner more books like this by Wesley Morris, Barbara Alverson Morris add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Tony Kushner in Conversation more books like this by Robert Vorlicky (Editor), Professor Tony Kushner add to wishlist The premier American playwright of this decade speaks out about art, sexuality, and social justice see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.81!
15 view cover	Reading Shakespeare Historically more books like this by Lisa Jardine add to wishlist Lisa Jardine is one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. This collection of her essays charts ten years of her thinking on the relationship between early modern history and the period's canonical texts. At the same time, the essays provide a fascinating account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s ... see all copies from $14.64! new only from $24.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Figuring Genre in Roman Satire more books like this by Catherine Keane add to wishlist Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, exploit this double identity to produce their colorful commentaries on social life and behavior. In a fresh comparative study that combines literary and cultural analysis, Catherine Keane reveals how the satirists ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasglow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor more books like this by Helen Fiddyment Levy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw more books like this by Gareth Griffith, Griffith Gareth add to wishlist George Bernard Shaw was the master intellectual of British socialism and has been one of the most influential political commentators of the twentieth century. Socialism and Superior Brains provides a comprehensive critical account of his political ideas. Shaw assumed many roles as a thinker, among them those of artist-philosopher, clowning ... see all copies from $32.00! new only from $46.00! \| SVS
19 view cover	William Carlos Williams & the Diagnositcs of Culture more books like this by Brian Bremen add to wishlist Bremen's study examines the development of William Carlos Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on Williams's ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose, and his life-long friendship with Kenneth Burke. Using a framework based on Burke's and Williams's theoretical writings and correspondence, as well as on the work of ... see all copies from $10.58! new only from $99.21! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Languages of Liberation more books like this by Professor Walter Kalaidjian add to wishlist see all copies from $3.09! new only from $30.45! \| first editions
21 view cover	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction more books like this by Professor Betty T Bennett add to wishlist "Recognition of Mary Shelley's systemic dual focus on public 'and' domestic power as the means to interrogate traditional norms and propose alternatives materially alters parochial perceptions of her objectives and her achievements. Her novels, outside of 'Frankenstein', and recently, 'The Last Man', have been dismissed as simple, mutual ... see all copies from $8.70! new only from $12.54! \| SVS
22 view cover	The life and work of Adelaide Procter : poetry, feminism, and fathers more books like this by Gill Gregory, Adelaide Anne Procter add to wishlist Adelaide Proctor (1825-1864) is one of the most important 19th-century women poets to be assessed by literary critics in recent years. She was a significant figure in the victorian literary landscape. A poet (who outsold most writers bar Tennyson), a philanthropist and a Roman Catholic convert, Procter committed herself to the cause of single, ... see all copies from $5.18! new only from $9.98!
23 view cover	Dickens Redressed: The Art of Bleak House and Hard Times more books like this by Alexander Welsh add to wishlist With Bleak House and Hard Times, Charles Dickens inaugurated a series of novels now known as "later Dickens"-works with a darker mood and more strident satire than his earlier fiction. Though immensely popular, these books are only partly understood, Alexander Welsh contends. In this sequel to his acclaimed From Copyright to Copperfield, Welsh ... see all copies from $17.67! new only from $57.31! \| SVS
24 view cover	Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988: Beyond the Pyramid more books like this by Cynthia Steele add to wishlist The student massacre at Tlatelolco in Mexico City on October 2, 1968, marked the beginning of an era of rapid social change in Mexico. In this illuminating study, Cynthia Steele explores how the writers of the next two decades responded to the massacre and to the social crisis it signaled in terms of political change and gender identity. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $14.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Drama & society in the age of Jonson more books like this by L. C. Knights add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! first editions \| SVS

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