Browse by Subject: American

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Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

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The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics

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William Faulkner's Legacy: "What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark"

This fresh approach to Faulkner’s canon examines his fiction in relation to other writers of the South.

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Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture

Taking a close look at Zora Neale Hurston's historical and literary contexts, this book investigates why Hurston's writing fell out of favor during her lifetime only to be reclaimed and appreciated years after her death.

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The Private Marjorie: The Love Letters of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Norton S. Baskin

This extraordinary trove of letters offers the most intimate portrait available of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist.

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Edith Wharton's Writings from the Great War

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Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren's Poetry

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Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends, Expanded Edition

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Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon

Edited collection of essays on the work of the 19th-century American (Maine) writer Sarah Orne Jewett, author of The Country of the Pointed Firs. Considers gender, regionalism, class, and cross-influences with contemporaries Howells, Cather, and Wharton.