Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing Dorri Beam "Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of … OL15537055W
Reading the American novel 1865-1914 Reading the American novel 1865-1914 Gary Richard Thompson "An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period.… OL16002494W
Before Sherlock Holmes Before Sherlock Holmes LeRoy Panek "This volume surveys the first fifty years of the detective story in nineteenth-century America and England, examining not only major works, but also the lesser known--including contemporary pseudo-b… OL16167750W
The porous sanctuary The porous sanctuary William Freedman "The Porous Sanctuary argues that the resistance to interpretation discovered by increasingly frequent deconstructive readings of Poe's short fictions can be interpreted psychologically rather than d… OL1840638W
Fictions of dissent Fictions of dissent Sigrid Anderson Cordell Fin de siecle fiction by British female aesthetes and American women regionalists stages moments of rebellion when female characters rise up and insist on the right to maintain control of their creat… OL19849884W
Epistemology of the closet Epistemology of the closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… OL2007273W
The Wonderful World of Oz The Wonderful World of Oz John Fricke The wonderful world of Oz is a magical place-and has been for generations of Americans since L. Frank Baum penned his enduring classic in 1900. With the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, Oz was forev… OL20200309W
American naturalism American naturalism Harold Bloom Presents critical essays which discuss the writers and literary works of American naturalism, and includes a chronology of the cultural, political, and literary events of the period. OL20610591W
Getting at the author Getting at the author Barbara Hochman "Throughout the nineteenth century, American readers and reviewers assumed that a book revealed its author's individuality, that the experience of reading was a kind of conversation with the writer. … OL4972251W
The syntax of class The syntax of class Amy Schrager Lang "The Syntax of Class explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. Lacking a native lang… OL5263414W
The flirt's tragedy The flirt's tragedy Richard A. Kaye "In the flirtation plots of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and W. M. Thackeray, heroines learn sociability through competition with naughty coquette-doubles. In the writing of George Eliot … OL6208977W
American foreign policy and the utopian imagination American foreign policy and the utopian imagination Susan M. Matarese "With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, American decision makers have been forced to confront anew questions about the role of the United States in world affairs. What are… OL7797578W