Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose
1st Edition
By David T. Humphries
September 11, 2014
In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers ...
Overheard Voices: Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry
1st Edition
By Ann Keniston
September 11, 2014
Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity. By approaching these crucial issues from an unexpected angle-...
Parsing the City: Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language
1st Edition
By Heather Easterling
September 11, 2014
Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose ...
The Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
1st Edition
By Katherine E. Ellison
September 11, 2014
What was "information" in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers of the period? Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century print culture and in twenty-first-century media studies and theory ...
The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton
1st Edition
By Jill M. Kress
September 11, 2014
Through analysis of metaphors of consciousness in the philosophy and fiction of William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton, this work traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature....
The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America
1st Edition
By Sandra Baringer
September 11, 2014
Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon....
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America
1st Edition
By Kim Becnel
September 11, 2014
This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly, ...
The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel
1st Edition
By Stephen Hancock
September 11, 2014
This study follows the aesthetic of the sublime from Burke and Kant, through Wordsworth and the Shelleys, into Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy. Exploring the continuities between the romantic and Victorian periods that have so often been rather read as differences, the book demonstrates that ...
Machine and Metaphor: The Ethics of Language in American Realism
1st Edition
By Jennifer C. Cook
August 12, 2014
American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also an ethos that seems to align itself with science, many have paired the two fields rather unproblematically. But this book...
Revisiting Vietnam
1st Edition
By Julia Bleakney
August 12, 2014
This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. These sites include veterans' memoirs, museum exhibits, replicas of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and ...
Surviving the Crossing: (Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen
1st Edition
By Jessica Rabin
August 12, 2014
By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in the interwar period. In place of essentializing categories of identity, Jessica Rabin explores the liberating and ...
The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939
1st Edition
By Gary Levine
August 12, 2014
The Merchant of Modernism examines how the figure of the economic Jew symbolizes the struggle of authors from Dickens to Pound to reconcile their critique of capitalism with their own literary practices and how the shifting of the representations of this figure parallels the development of ...