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Shakespeare and Faulkner: Selves and Others (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the moral and ethical dilemmas that characters face inside themselves and in their interactions with others in the works of these two famed authors.... Læs mere
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Irreconcilable Founders: Spencer Roane, John Marshall, and the Nature of America's Constitutional Republic (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
David Johnson uses Spencer Roane's conflict with John Marshall as ballast for the first-ever... Læs mere
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Surprised by Sound: Rhyme's Inner Workings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and why it remains a vital part of poetry with connections to large questions about poetic freedom, cognitive and psychoanalytic theories, and the accidental aspects of language.
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Sweet Land of Liberty: America in the Mind of the French Left, 1848-1871 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Examines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical... Læs mere
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The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions... Læs mere
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The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin's "at Fault (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin’s first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics of the post-Reconstruction era.
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Segregation in the New South: Birmingham, Alabama, 1871–1901 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the rise of racial exclusion in late nineteenth-century Birmingham, Alabama. Carl Harris shows that from the beginning of... Læs mere
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Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
By encouraging a reconsideration of Norman Mailer’s career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, this... Læs mere
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Speed, Safety, and Comfort: The Origins of Delta Air Lines (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Former Delta Boeing 767 captain and aviation historian James John Hoogerwerf traces the evolution and growth of one of America’s most successful... Læs mere
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The Boss of New Orleans: Martin Behrman and Machine Politics in the Crescent City (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Although relatively unknown today, Martin Behrman dominated New Orleans politics in the early twentieth century, serving as mayor from 1904 to 1920 and again in 1925. The Boss of New Orleans is a masterful examination of Behrman’s remarkable life and political career.
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The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Drawing on a cast of famous and obscure figures from Frederick Douglass to Moncure Conway, Frank Cirillo’s The... Læs mere
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Dangerous Innocence: White Men, Mass Culture, and the Southern Outsider's Appeal, 1960-2020 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of... Læs mere
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