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Literature, American



link to catalog page RYAN, Love, Wages, Slavery

Love, Wages, Slavery

The Literature of Servitude in the United States

Author: Barbara Ryan
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2010

Understanding the nature of "free" servitude in a time of slavery   learn more...

link to catalog page DOUGHERTY, Shouting Down the Silence

Shouting Down the Silence

A Biography of Stanley Elkin

Author: David C. Dougherty
Pub Date: April 2010

The first in-depth biography of distinguished academic novelist Stanley Elkin   learn more...

link to catalog page FOREMAN, Activist Sentiments

Activist Sentiments

Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Author: P. Gabrielle Foreman
Pub Date: October 2009

Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships   learn more...

link to catalog page GAYLE, The Addison Gayle Jr. Reader Author: Edited by Nathaniel Norment Jr.
Pub Date: June 2009

A representative selection of Addison Gayle Jr.'s crucial work on Black aesthetics and Black literature   learn more...

link to catalog page MILLIER, Flawed Light

Flawed Light

American Women Poets and Alcohol

Author: Brett C. Millier
Pub Date: September 2009

Women poets who found both inspiration and isolation at the bottom of the glass   learn more...

link to catalog page JOSLIN, Jane Addams, a Writer's Life Author: Katherine Joslin
Pub Date: January 2009

The story of the literary woman behind the public figure   learn more...

link to catalog page DOWLING, Slumming in New York

Slumming in New York

From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem

Author: Robert M. Dowling
Pub Date: Cloth: 2007; Paper: 2009

A penetrating study of the literary writings that transformed New York City's moral threats into cultural treasures   learn more...

link to catalog page CARTER, Southern Single Blessedness

Southern Single Blessedness

Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865

Author: Christine Jacobson Carter
Pub Date: January 2009

The engaging lives that single women led in spite of (or perhaps because of) their "spinsterhood"   learn more...

link to catalog page PIZER, American Naturalism and the Jews

American Naturalism and the Jews

Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather

Author: Donald Pizer
Pub Date: July 2008

A penetrating study of the anti-Semitic attitudes held by major American naturalist authors   learn more...

link to catalog page PATTERSON, Beyond the Gibson Girl

Beyond the Gibson Girl

Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915

Author: Martha H. Patterson
Pub Date: Cloth: 2005; Paper: 2008

The social, ethnic, literary, and iconographic history of the contested American New Woman   learn more...

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