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Sitting in Darkness Sitting in Darkness Peter Schmidt Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards i… OL1452983W
The poetry of Susan Howe The poetry of Susan Howe Will Montgomery "The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various c… OL15119853W
The Fiction of Narrative The Fiction of Narrative Hayden White Hayden White is celebrated as one of the great minds in the humanities. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White's work has been crucial to disciplines where… OL15296274W
Harry Potter and history Harry Potter and history Nancy Ruth Reagin "A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter?just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II). Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magi… OL16190600W
The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814 The French Revolution Debate and the British Novel, 1790–1814 Morgan Rooney This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814. During these years, intersections between histor… OL16815556W
Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history Legitimacy and illegitimacy in law, literature, and history Margot Finn,Michael Lobban "Animated by scandals, scoundrels and imposters, this collection, with contributions from prominent scholars of literature, history and law, seeks to address issues of identity, trust and deception i… OL16982490W
The English novel in history, 1700-1780 The English novel in history, 1700-1780 John J. Richetti The English Novel in History 1700-1780 provides students with specific contexts for the early novel in response to a new understanding of eighteenth-century Britain. It traces the social and moral re… OL1830261W
Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing Ato Quayson This is an innovative and original study which offers a new perspective on a Nigerian literary tradition. The author takes issue with the prevalent use of "oral tradition" in the criticism of Europho… OL19550881W
Genres of modernity Genres of modernity Dirk Wiemann "Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the… OL19852467W
River of ink River of ink Thomas Christensen "Thomas Christensen's previous title 1616 : The World in Motion looked at a single year in the age of early maritime globalism--PW gave it a starred review, calling it 'a stunning overview of the nas… OL20895686W
Glamorous sorcery Glamorous sorcery David Rollo "Through the analysis of magic as a metaphor for the mysterious workings of writing, Glamorous Sorcery sheds light on the power attributed to language in shaping perceptions of the world and conferri… OL221190W
Fortunes of history Fortunes of history Kelley, Donald R. "In Fortunes of History Donald R. Kelley offers an authoritative examination of historical writing during the "long nineteenth century" - the years from the French Revolution to those just after the … OL2640634W
Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction Romances of the archive in contemporary British fiction Suzanne Keen "Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction is a discussion of the debates about the uses of the past contained in British fiction since the Falklands crisis. Suzanne Keen provides a det… OL2685589W
History, politics, and the novel History, politics, and the novel Dominick LaCapra LaCapra provides historically informed readings of eight major modern novels: Stendhal's *Red and Black*, Dostoevsky's *Notes from Underground*, Eliot's *Middlemarch*, Flaubert's *Sentimental Educati… OL2731945W
Constructing a World Constructing a World Martha Tuck Rozett "Taking its title from Umberto Eco's postscript to The Name of the Rose, the novel that inaugurated the New Historical Fiction in the early 1980s, Constructing the World provides a guide to the genre… OL3285584W
The real Middle-earth The real Middle-earth Brian Bates Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for the Dark Age world, it was always assumed that the importance of magic in this world exist… OL3347888W
The white goddess The white goddess Robert Graves The definitive edition of one of the more extraordinary and influential books of our time This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published more than sixty years ago, was the outcome of Ro… OL5036950W
Shakespeare's histories Shakespeare's histories William A. Armstrong 282 p. 19 cm OL6917828W
Von Heine zu Brecht Von Heine zu Brecht Walter Hinck 154 pages ; 18 cm OL696885W
The Civil War The Civil War Janet Cassidy This sample unit uses literature to teach the story of the Civil War. Six core books -- two works of historical fiction (Across five Aprils / by Irene Hunt ; Bull Run / by Paul Fleischman), two info… OL8139068W
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