Literature, American



  • ADE, George : Stories of Chicago
  • ADELL, Sandra : Double-Consciousness/Double Bind: Theoretical Issues in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
  • ANDERSON, Sherwood : Windy McPherson's Son
  • ANDREWS, William L. : To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865
  • AUSTIN, Mary : The Land of Journeys' Ending
  • BALCH, Jack S. : Lamps at High Noon
  • BARNUM, Phineas T. : The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe
  • BARNUM, Phineas T. Introduction by Terence Whalen: The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself
  • BAYM, Nina : Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America, 1820-70
  • BEHLING, Laura L. : The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935
  • BERG, Allison : Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930
  • BERMAN, Art : From the New Criticism to Deconstruction: The Reception of Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
  • BERMAN, Ronald : Great Gatsby and Modern Times
  • BERMAN, Art : Preface to Modernism
  • BERRESSEM, Hanjo : Pynchon's Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text
  • BIRCHALL, Diana : Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton
  • BLUM, Virginia L. : Hide and Seek: The Child between Psychoanalysis and Fiction
  • BONOSKY, Phillip : Burning Valley
  • BOYLE, Kay : Process: A Novel
  • BRENNAN, Edited by Jonathan : When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature
  • BRUNNER, Edward : Cold War Poetry
  • BRUNVAND, Jan Harold : The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story
  • BURKHARDT, Barbara A. : William Maxwell: A Literary Life
  • BURR, Zofia : Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou
  • BURTON, Edited by Orville Vernon : Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities
  • CANTWELL, Robert : If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture
  • CARLSON, David J. : Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law
  • CARTER, Steven R. : Hansberry's Drama: Commitment amid Complexity
  • CARTER, Christine Jacobson : Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865
  • CAUGHIE, Pamela L. : Passing and Pedagogy: The Dynamics of Responsibility
  • CHAMBERLIN, J. Edward : Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies
  • CHANG, Edited by Victoria M. : Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation
  • CHAPMAN, John Jay : Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader
  • CHRISTIAN, Barbara : New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
  • CLARK, Keith : Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson
  • CLARK, Edited by Keith : Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama
  • COINER, Constance : Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur
  • COINER, Edited by Constance and Diana Hume George: The Family Track: Keeping Your Faculties while You Mentor, Nurture, Teach, and Serve
  • CONNOR, Kimberly Rae : Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition
  • CONROY, Jack : A World to Win
  • COOK-LYNN, Elizabeth : Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth
  • CREAMER, Hannah Gardner : Delia's Doctors; or, A Glance behind the Scenes
  • DE SANTIS, Edited by Christopher C. : Langston Hughes and the *Chicago Defender*: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62
  • DODGE, Daniel Kilham Introduction by James Hurt: Abraham Lincoln: The Evolution of His Literary Style
  • DODSON, Kenneth : The Poet and the Sailor: The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg
  • DOOLEY, Patrick K. : The Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane
  • DOUGLASS, Frederick : My Bondage and My Freedom
  • DOWLING, Robert M. : Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem
  • DREISER, Theodore : A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters, Volume I
  • DREISER, Theodore : A Traveler at Forty
  • DREISER, Theodore : Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902
  • DREISER, Theodore : Letters to Women: New Letters, Volume 2
  • DREISER, Theodore : The Genius
  • DUNLAP, William : A History of the American Theatre from Its Origins to 1832
  • DUNNE, Finley Peter : Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
  • EBERLY, Rosa A. : Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres
  • FABI, M. Giulia : Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel
  • FABRE, Michel : The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
  • FARNHAM, Eliza W. : Life in Prairie Land
  • FARRELL, James T. : A World I Never Made
  • FARRELL, James T. : Chicago Stories
  • FARRELL, James T. : Father and Son
  • FARRELL, James T. : My Days of Anger
  • FARRELL, James T., with an Introduction by Charles Fanning: No Star is Lost
  • FARRELL, James T. : Studs Lonigan
  • FARRELL, James T. : The Face of Time
  • FERBER, Edna : Emma McChesney and Co.
  • FERBER, Edna : Fanny Herself
  • FERBER, Edna : Half Portions
  • FERBER, Edna : Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney
  • FERENS, Dominika : Edith and Winnifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances
  • FETTERLEY, Judith and Marjorie Pryse: Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture
  • FLANNERY, Kathryn Thoms : Feminist Literacies, 1968-75
  • FOERTSCH, Jacqueline : Enemies Within: The Cold War and the AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film, and Culture
  • FOREMAN, Edited by Joel : The Other Fifties: Interrogating Midcentury American Icons
  • FRANKLIN, Reverend C. L. : Give Me This Mountain: Life History and Selected Sermons
  • FREDRICKSON, George M. : The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union
  • FULLER, Margaret : Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
  • FULTZ, Lucille P. : Toni Morrison: Playing with Difference
  • FURTWANGLER, Albert : Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals
  • GAARD, Edited by Greta and Patrick D. Murphy: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy
  • GEORGE, Edited by Diana Hume : Sexton: Selected Criticism
  • GERE, Anne Ruggles : Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920
  • GIANNONE, Richard : Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist
  • GRIERSON, Francis : The Valley of Shadows: Sangamon Sketches
  • GRUESSER, Edited by John Cullen : The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
  • GUNDY, Jeff : A Community of Memory: My Days with George and Clara
  • GWIN, Minrose C. : The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading
  • HALL, Edited by Donald E. : Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies
  • HALLWAS, John : The Bootlegger: A Story of Small-Town America
  • HANS, James S. : The Sovereignty of Taste
  • HARRIS, Mark : City of Discontent
  • HARTNETT, Stephen John : Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America
  • HAVIS, Edited by Allan : American Political Plays: An Anthology
  • HEMENWAY, Robert E. : Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
  • HERBST, Josephine : Pity Is Not Enough
  • HESFORD, Edited by Wendy S. and Wendy Kozol: Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real"
  • HOGUE, W. Lawrence : Postmodern American Literature and Its Other
  • HUME, Kathryn : American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960
  • HURSTON, Zora Neale : Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • IRMSCHER, Christoph : Longfellow Redux
  • JACKSON, Holbrook : The Reading of Books
  • JOSLIN, Katherine : Jane Addams, a Writer's Life
  • KATZ, Edited by Joy and Kevin Prufer: Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems
  • KING, Edited by C. Richard : Postcolonial America
  • KLEIN, Viola : The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre
  • KORITZ, Amy : Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s
  • KRAMER, Aaron : Wicked Times: Selected Poems
  • KUHLMANN, Hilke : Living Walden Two: B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities
  • LARDAS, John : The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs
  • LEPSON, Edited by Ruth with Lynne Yamaguchi: Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology
  • LEVINE, Edited by Stuart and Susan : The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition
  • LEWIS, Leslie W. : Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature
  • LOEFFELHOLZ, Mary : Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory
  • LOWE, John : Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy
  • LUMPKIN, Grace : To Make My Bread
  • LYDENBERG, Robin : Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction
  • LYONS, Edited by Bonnie and Bill Oliver: Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers
  • MANNING, Edited by Carol S. : The Female Tradition in Southern Literature
  • MASTERS, Edgar Lee : Across Spoon River
  • MAUND, Alfred : The Big Boxcar
  • MCALMON, Robert : The Nightinghouls of Paris
  • MCCAFFERY, Conducted and edited by Larry : Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers
  • MCELRATH, Joseph R. Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler: Frank Norris: A Life
  • MCKAY, Claude : Complete Poems
  • MCKENNA, Andrew J. : Violence and Difference: Girard, Derrida, and Deconstruction
  • MILLER, Edited by Nancy K. and Jason Tougaw: Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community
  • MILLETT, Kate : Flying
  • MILLETT, Kate : Sita
  • MINTER, David : Faulkner's Questioning Narratives: Fiction of His Major Phase, 1929-42
  • MONROE, William : Power to Hurt: The Virtues of Alienation
  • MOORE, James, ATF (Ret.): Very Special Agents: The Inside Story of America's Most Controversial Law Enforcement Agency--The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
  • MORRIS, Adalaide : How to Live/What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics
  • MORRIS, Timothy : Making the Team: The Cultural Work of Baseball Fiction
  • MORRIS, Judy K. : Writing Fiction for Children: Stories Only You Can Tell
  • MORRIS, Tim : You're Only Young Twice: Children's Literature and Film
  • MORTON, Edited by Donald and Mas'ud Zavarzadeh: Theory/Pedagogy/Politics: Texts for Change
  • MULLEN, Bill V. : Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46
  • MULLEN, Patrick B. : The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore
  • NASH, William R. : Charles Johnson's Fiction
  • NELSON, Edited by Cary : Remembering Spain: Hemingway's Civil War Eulogy and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
  • PAGE, Myra : Moscow Yankee
  • PARKER, Robert Dale : The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
  • PARTCH, Harry : Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos
  • PASTORE, Edited by Judith Laurence : Confronting AIDS through Literature: The Responsibilities of Representation
  • PATTERSON, Martha H. : Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915
  • PAULY, Thomas H. : Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women
  • PELLS, Richard H. : Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years
  • PEREIRA, Malin : Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism: Poems
  • PETERSON, Richard : Extra Innings: Writing on Baseball
  • PHELPS, Elizabeth Stuart : Three Spiritualist Novels
  • PIATT, Edited and with an Introduction by Paula Bernat Bennett: Palace-Burner: The Selected Poetry of Sarah Piatt
  • PIZER, Donald : American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather
  • PLANT, Deborah G. : Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston
  • POE, Edgar Allan : Complete Poems
  • POE, Edgar Allan : Critical Theory: The Major Documents
  • POE, Edgar Allan : Eureka
  • POE, Edgar Allan : Tales and Sketches, vol. 1: 1831-1842
  • POE, Edgar Allan : Tales and Sketches, vol. 2: 1843-1849
  • POLONSKY, Abraham : The World Above
  • ROBERTS, Robin : A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction
  • ROBERTS, Robin : Sexual Generations: "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and Gender
  • RODGERS, Lawrence R. : Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel
  • ROLFE, Edwin : Collected Poems
  • ROLFE, Edwin : Trees Became Torches: Selected Poems
  • ROOF, Edited by Judith and Robyn Wiegman: Who Can Speak?: Authority and Critical Identity
  • RUBIN, Rachel : Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
  • RUECKERT, William H. : Encounters with Kenneth Burke
  • RUSCH, Edited by Frederic E. and Donald Pizer: Theodore Dreiser: Interviews
  • RYAN, Barbara : Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States
  • SALT, Henry S. : Life of Henry David Thoreau
  • SANDBURG, Carl : Ever the Winds of Chance: Poems
  • SANDBURG, Carl : Fables, Foibles, and Foobles
  • SANDBURG, Edited by Margaret : The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen and Carl Sandburg
  • SANFORD, John : The People from Heaven
  • SCOTT, Edited and with an Introduction by Bonnie Kime : Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections
  • SEELYE, John : The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • SEJOUR, Victor Séjour: The Fortune-Teller
  • SEJOUR, Victor Séjour: The Jew of Seville
  • SHAPIRO, Translated by Norman R. : Creole Echoes: The Francophone Poetry of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
  • SHERMAN, Edited by Joan R. : African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
  • SHERRILL, Rowland A. : Road-Book America: Contemporary Culture and the New Picaresque
  • SINCLAIR, Upton : The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
  • SINCLAIR, Upton : The Jungle
  • SMITH, Madeline Babcock : The Lemon Jelly Cake
  • STANFIELD, Peter : Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy
  • STANLEY, Edited by David and Elaine Thatcher: Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry
  • STANLEY, Edited by Sandra Kumamoto : Other Sisterhoods: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color
  • STEPHENS, Edited and with an Introduction by Judith L. : The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement
  • STEPTO, Robert B. : From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
  • SUAREZ, Virgil Suárez: Guide to the Blue Tongue: Poems
  • SUI SIN FAR, Sui Sin Far: Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings
  • SULLIVAN, James D. : On the Walls and in the Streets: American Poetry Broadsides from the 1960s
  • SURETTE, Leon : Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism
  • TARKINGTON, Booth : The Turmoil
  • TAX, Meredith : Rivington Street: A Novel
  • TAX, Meredith : Union Square: A Novel
  • THOMAS, Edited by Calvin : Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality
  • THOMPSON, Jon : Fiction, Crime, and Empire: Clues to Modernity and Postmodernism
  • TITON, Edited by Jeff Todd : Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era
  • TOELKEN, Barre : Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs
  • TRACY, Steven C. : Langston Hughes and the Blues
  • VAN VECHTEN, Carl : Nigger Heaven
  • VAN VECHTEN, Carl : The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930
  • VAN WIENEN, Edited by Mark W. : Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great War
  • WALTERS, Kerry S. : Benjamin Franklin and His Gods
  • WALTON, Priscilla L. : Our Cannibals, Ourselves
  • WATANNA, Onoto : "A Half Caste" and Other Writings
  • WEINBERG, Edited by Arthur and Lila : The Muckrakers
  • WERNER, Craig Hansen : Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse
  • WHALEN-BRIDGE, John : Political Fiction and the American Self
  • WHITE-PARKS, Annette : Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography
  • WILLIAMS, William Carlos : Poems
  • WOLFF, Milton : Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel
  • YARNALL, Judith : Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress
  • YEZIERSKA, Anzia : Salome of the Tenements
  • YIN, Xiao-huang : Chinese American Literature since the 1850s
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