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Approximate Gestures: Infinite Spaces in the Fiction of Percival Everett (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Argues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart... Læs mere
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Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America.
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Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, 1860-1919: A History (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides a detailed analysis of LSU's beginnings and early development, starting well before it first opened its... Læs mere
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Performing Jane: A Cultural History of Jane Austen Fandom (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Jane Austen has resonated with readers across generations like no other writer. More than two hundred years after the publication of Pride and... Læs mere
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Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes... Læs mere
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The Soldier's Two Bodies: Military Sacrifice and Popular Sovereignty in Revolutionary War Veteran Narratives (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature - the Revolutionary War veteran narrative - showing that it by turns both promotes and critiques a notion of military heroism as the source of US sovereignty.
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Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.
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This Tilted World Is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems, 1962-2020 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Gathers one hundred poems by Henry Taylor, drawing on over fifty years of published work by this witty, adept, and vital literary voice. The book opens with twenty-five recent poems collected for the first time. The remaining seventy-five poems appear from his previous books.
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Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell: Collaboration in the Reshaping of American Poetry (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong friendships with one another, often discussing each... Læs mere
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To Preach Deliverance to the Captives: Freedom and Slavery in the Protestant Mind of George Bourne, 1780-1845 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
George Bourne was one of the early American republic's first immediate abolitionists. His... Læs mere
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Murder in McComb: The Tina Andrews Case (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
What remained of the decomposed body of twelve-year-old Tina Marie Andrews was discovered in the woods outside of McComb, Mississippi, on August 23, 1969. Trent... Læs mere
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Operation Dimwit: A Penelope Lemon Novel (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Building on the comedic hijinks of Penelope Lemon: Game On!, Operation Dimwit is a warmhearted look at the challenges of being a single working mom trying to stay afloat in the middle class after a divorce.
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