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Rhetorics of Literacy : The Cultivation of American Dialect Poetry / by Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The difficulty of dialect poetry -- Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley -- Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I -- Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II -- Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.…”
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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism / by Roberts, David, 1937-

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The Troubled Union : Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / by González, John Morán

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the historical crisis of post-Reconstruction national allegory -- Speaking American : Henry James and the dialect of modernity -- The hidden power : domesticity, national allegory, and empire in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona -- Blushing brides and soulless corporations : racial formation in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don -- Epilogue : decentering national allegory.…”
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition : Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 / by Tomich, Dale W., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucriere : cell unit of colonial production -- Obstacles to innovation -- A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor -- The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing -- Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique.…”
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Imagined Homelands : British Poetry in the Colonies / by Rudy, Jason R., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Colonial Authenticity: Circulation, Sentiment, Adaptation -- 3. Sounding Colonial: Dialect, Song, and the Scottish Diaspora -- 4. Native Poetry: Forms of Indigeneity in the Colonies -- 5. …”
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Deciphering Race : White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in Mid-Victorian English Prose / by Callanan, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Aestheticizing Mid-Victorian Racial Tropism -- Toussaint and the Staging of Political Aesthetics in Normal: Harriet Martineaus The Hour and the Man (1841) -- Life Clothed in Forms: Radical Racism as Formalist Aesthetic in Robert Knoxs The Races of Men (1850) -- The Dialectic of Scapegoat and Fetish: Failed Catharsis in Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collinss The Perils of Certain English Prisoners (1857) -- So Help Me God, the Truth and Not the Truth: Hyper-Realism and the Taxonomy of Truth Seeking in the Royal Commissions Inquiry into the 1865 Jamaica Rebellion -- Race, Ruins, and Rebellion: Spatializing Racial @Normal: Otherness in James Grants First Love and Last Love (1868) -- De-Aestheticizing Sara(h) Ba(a)rtman(n).…”
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Ecological Form : System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire /

Table of Contents: “…"Infinitesimal Lives": Thomas Hardy's Scale Effects; Part IV FUTURES; 10. Electric Dialectics: Delany's Atlantic Materialism; 11. Satire's Ecology; Afterword: They Would Have Ended by Burning Their Own Globe; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Index.…”
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Victorian Lessons in Empathy and Difference / by Mitchell, Rebecca N. (Rebecca Nicole), 1976-

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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

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