Presents interesting and unusual George Armstrong Custer legends, which include the alleged fathering of Monahseetah's Indian son; the Annie Jones story buried in the National Archives;... Læs mere
This collection of essays articulates the pedagogical strategies of using detective fiction texts to investigate the politics of difference.
Through detailed analyses of documentary photography and radical literature, Silent Witnesses explores how working-class identity has been repressed and manipulated to fit the... Læs mere
In the twentieth century Marxism challenged laissez-faire economics, psychoanalysis reinterpreted the processes of thought, and evolution discredited the idea of creation.... Læs mere
This study examines sports as both a symbol of American culture and a formative force that shapes American values. Leverett T. Smith Jr. uses high culture, in the form of literature and criticism, to analyze the popular culture of baseball and professional football.
To this structural analysis, the author adds a new account of the genre's history and its relationship to the myths of the West which have played such an influential role in American history.
This volume focuses on the artistic and cultural implications of an important contemporary novelist.
Brian J. Frost presents a full-scale survey of werewolf literature covering both fiction and nonfiction works. He identifies principal elements in the werewolf... Læs mere
In 'American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction', scholar and fantasy writer Dale Bailey traces the motive from English gothic fiction through such luminaries as Poe and Hawthorne to Steven King and paperback potboilers of the present.
The Reader and the Detective Story is unique it treats the detective story as a special case of reading, governed by special rules and shaped by a highly specialized formula.... Læs mere
Stephen King's America aims to heighten awareness of the numerous American issues that resonate throughout King's fiction, issues that bear universal application to the evolution of the human condition.