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Robert Hayden
Essays on the Poetry
Laurence Goldstein and Robert Chrisman, Editors
Vital perspectives from leading critics and scholars on one of the most distinguished African American poets of the twentieth century
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Robert Hayden
Essays on the Poetry
Laurence Goldstein and Robert Chrisman, Editors
Vital perspectives from leading critics and scholars on one of the most distinguished African American poets of the twentieth century
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Robert Hayden
Essays on the Poetry
Laurence Goldstein and Robert Chrisman, Editors
Vital perspectives from leading critics and scholars on one of the most distinguished African American poets of the twentieth century
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Arthur Miller
1962-2005
Christopher Bigsby

The second volume in the definitive biography of the acclaimed playwright

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Imagining the Forest
Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
John Knott
How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes
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Imagining the Forest
Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
John Knott
How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes
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Imagining the Forest
Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest
John Knott
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James Baldwin
America and Beyond
Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan, editors
An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields
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James Baldwin
America and Beyond
Edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz
An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields
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James Baldwin
America and Beyond
Edited by Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan
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Two Minds of a Western Poet
David Mason
Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet
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Two Minds of a Western Poet
Essays by David Mason
Meditations on the life of poetry by an award-winning poet
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The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age
Edited by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell
Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship
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Web 2010 Open Access Available Read Online
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The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age
Edited by Amy E. Earhart and Andrew Jewell
Essays reflecting on the development of the first wave of digital American literature scholarship
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Devils and Rebels
The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Larry J. Reynolds
Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author
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Devils and Rebels
The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics
Larry J. Reynolds
Was Nathaniel Hawthorne a racist? A compelling second look at a canonical American author
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Risk Culture
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
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Risk Culture
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg
Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days
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Risk Culture
Performance and Danger in Early America
Joseph Fichtelberg

Close textual analysis explores the culture of risk in our country's early days

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Mammy
A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
A revealing exploration of the origins and meanings of the mammy figure
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An Angle of Vision
Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots
Lorraine M. López

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

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An Angle of Vision
Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-Class Roots
Edited by Lorraine M. López

Uncommon perspectives by prominent women writers on class, money, family, and home

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Natural Acts
Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music
Pamela Fox

Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country?

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Natural Acts
Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music
Pamela Fox

Hillbilly, honky-tonk, Nashville glitz, or alt.country: what makes music authentically country?

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The Hopwood Lectures
Edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco

A selection of Hopwood lectures delivered during ten annual awards ceremony, including work by Charles Baxter, Mary Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan, Susan Stamberg, and others

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The Hopwood Lectures
Edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco

A selection of Hopwood lectures delivered during ten annual awards ceremony, including work by Charles Baxter, Mary Gordon, Lawrence Kasdan, Susan Stamberg, and others

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Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form
Race, Class, and Reification
Marcial González
Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years
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Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form
Race, Class, and Reification
Marcial González
Explores the relationship between race and class and between politics and literary form in major works of Chicano literature over the last hundred years
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Atlas
Selected Essays, 1989-2007
Alfred Corn
A collection of essays from one of the most accomplished poets of his generation on a wide variety of subjects, from Elizabeth Bishop to Virginia Woolf and Wordsworth
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Atlas
Selected Essays, 1989-2007
Alfred Corn
A collection of essays from one of the most accomplished poets of his generation on a wide variety of subjects, from Elizabeth Bishop to Virginia Woolf and Wordsworth
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Deborah Geis
An accessible guide to the inventive language and experimental stagings of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
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Suzan-Lori Parks
Deborah R. Geis
An accessible guide to the inventive language and experimental stagings of playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
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Charles Simic
Essays on the Poetry
Bruce Weigl, Editor
New perspectives on the work of this original and hard-to-categorize American poet,  recently named Poet Laureate of the United States
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Edward Albee
Toby Zinman
A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most  important playwrights

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Edward Albee
Toby Zinman
A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most  important playwrights

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Poet's Work, Poet's Play
Essays on the Practice and the Art
Edited by Daniel Tobin and Pimone Triplett
An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the art and craft of contemporary poetry
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You Work Tomorrow
An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41
John Marsh, Editor
The first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression
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The Unraveling Archive
Essays on Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle
Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets
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The Unraveling Archive
Essays on Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle
Fresh perspectives that provide new readings of the life and work of one of our most celebrated poets
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Reading Adoption
Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama
Marianne Novy

A literary scholar who is an adult adoptee delves into one of the enduring themes of literature—the child raised by other parents

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Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
James C. Davis
Examines the critical role that race played in the birth of U.S. consumer culture 
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Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
James C. Davis
Examines the critical role that race played in the birth of U.S. consumer culture 
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Let Me Live
Angelo Herndon
The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s
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On Frank Bidart
Fastening the Voice to the Page
Edited by Liam Rector and Tree Swenson
Essays that explore the art and craft of Frank Bidart's poetry, with an interview with the poet
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Workin' on the Chain Gang
Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History
Walter Mosley
A passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American people
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