Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century [None ed.] 081359278X, 9780813592787

Pan–African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century 9780813592817

The twenty-first century is witnessing a dynamic broadening of how blackness signifies both in the U.S. and abroad. Lite

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American Literature. in Nineteenth-Century England 9780231877862

Examines the wide interest in American literature displayed by the English during the 19th century through a collection

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Dangerous Giving in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) [1st ed. 2022] 9783030932695, 9783030932701, 3030932699

This book explores the dark, unruly, and self-destructive side of gift-giving as represented in nineteenth-century liter

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Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England 0823294463, 9780823294466

Five hundred years before “Jabberwocky” and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsen

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The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature 9781474442947

Analyses the theme of laziness in twentieth-century American Literature Uncovers the ethical dimension of the writing of

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Medieval Nonsense: Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England 9780823294497

In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer,

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Psychological Politics of the American Dream: The Commodification of Subjectivity in Twentieth-Century American Literature 0814206263

Lois Tyson's ground-breaking work, Psychological Politics of the American Dream, seeks to draw together disparate s

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Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature 9780813562995

Today’s critical establishment assumes that sentimentalism is an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literary mode that a

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Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature 9781138206458, 9781315464930

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Melting Pots & Mosaics: Children of Immigrants in US-American Literature 9783839440452

In the past decades, children of immigrants have drawn increased attention not only in press and media, but also in a nu

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