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Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
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1.
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
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1.
Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race
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2. 
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
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2.
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long- term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
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2.
Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring
Examines how contemporary American working- class literature reveals the long-term effects of deindustrialization on individuals and communities
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3. 
Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
A cross-disciplinary reading of American popular culture at a time of U.S. imperialism and the occupation of the Philippine Islands.
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Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive
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open access
Experimental Technics in American Fiction
A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human
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| Web | 2015 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
4.
open access
Experimental Technics in American Fiction
A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human
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| Web | 2015 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
4.
open access
Experimental Technics in American Fiction
A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Web | 2015 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
5. 
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history
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| Paper | 2013 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "American Poetry in Performance" to Cart |
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5.
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
Performance poetry, identity, and nationality throughout American history
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5.
From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop
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6. 
Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City
A comparison of the mid-19th-century city in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Charles Baudelaire and their responses to the inescapable push of modernization
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| Hardcover | 2012 | $59.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "New York-Paris" to Cart |
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Whitman, Baudelaire, and the Hybrid City
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7. 
The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860
A new look at the "eccentric author" figure in early nineteenth-century America
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| Hardcover | 2012 | $89.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Industry and the Creative Mind" to Cart |
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The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860
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8. 
Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes
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8.
Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes
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Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
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9. 
Transracial Adoption in American Literature
Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver
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| Hardcover | 2010 | $79.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Kin of Another Kind" to Cart |
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9.
Transracial Adoption in American Literature
Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver
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Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship
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| Paper | 2010 | $38.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age" to Cart |
| Web | 2010 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
10.
open access
Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship
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| Paper | 2010 | $38.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age" to Cart |
| Web | 2010 | Open Access | Available | Read Online |
11. 
Performance and Danger in Early America
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
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11.
Performance and Danger in Early America
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
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| Paper | 2010 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Risk Culture" to Cart |
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11.
Performance and Danger in Early America
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
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| Paper | 2010 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Risk Culture" to Cart |
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12. 
A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture
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| Hardcover | 2007 | $44.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Chic Ironic Bitterness" to Cart |
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12.
A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture
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13. 
Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present
An unbiased examination of the century-and-a-half-long culture wars fought in the pages of our country's history texts
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Schoolbook Nation" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Schoolbook Nation" |
13.
Conflicts over American History Textbooks from the Civil War to the Present
An unbiased examination of the century-and-a-half-long culture wars fought in the pages of our country's history texts
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Schoolbook Nation" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Schoolbook Nation" |
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| Paper | 2004 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Jewish in America" to Cart |
15. 
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gates of Freedom" to Cart |
| Ebook | 2010 | Available | View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Gates of Freedom" |
15.
Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind
Rediscovers and celebrates the long-neglected writing of one of the world's most important feminist anarchists
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| Paper | 2004 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Gates of Freedom" to Cart |
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16. 
Essays on Literature and Culture
Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists
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| Paper | 2004 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Imagining Adoption" to Cart |
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16.
Essays on Literature and Culture
Engaging essays on the theme of adoption as seen in literary works and in writings by adoptees, adoptive parents, and adoption activists
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2004 | $34.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Imagining Adoption" to Cart |
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17. 
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2003 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Secret Spaces of Childhood" to Cart |
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17.
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
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18. 
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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| Paper | 2002 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Imagining Wild America" to Cart |
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18.
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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| Paper | 2002 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Imagining Wild America" to Cart |
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18.
Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver
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| Paper | 2002 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Imagining Wild America" to Cart |
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19. 
Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire
An exploration of how specific historical contexts, narrative conventions, and cultural politics shape the ways that stories of incest are told and heard
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Telling Incest" to Cart |
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19.
Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to Sapphire
An exploration of how specific historical contexts, narrative conventions, and cultural politics shape the ways that stories of incest are told and heard
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $25.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Telling Incest" to Cart |
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20. 
Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest
Explores the convergences of U.S. water policy and the literature of the American West
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| Paper | 2001 | $27.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Dripping Dry" to Cart |
21. 
Feline Images from Bast to Garfield
An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art
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| Paper | 2001 | $23.95 | Available | Add Paper for "The Cat and the Human Imagination" to Cart |
22. 
Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890
Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors
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| Paper | 2001 | $30.95 | Available | Add Paper for "U.S. Orientalisms" to Cart |
23. 
Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Paper | 2001 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Narrative Prosthesis" to Cart |
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23.
Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
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24. 
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing
Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class
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| Paper | 2000 | $29.95 | Available | Add Paper for "Tourists with Typewriters" to Cart |
25. 
Forms of Modernity in African America
Provides a new way of looking at literary responses to migration and modernization
| Format | Publication year | Price | Status | Purchasing option |
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| Hardcover | 2000 | $84.95 | Available | Add Hardcover for "Conjuring the Folk" to Cart |
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