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Hip Sublime : Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition /

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Enthusiast! : Essays on Modern American literature / by Herd, David

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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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German Writing, American Reading : Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 / by Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : made in Germany, read in America -- German women writers at home and abroad -- "Family likenesses" : Marlitt's texts as American books -- The German art of the happy ending : embellishing and expanding the boundaries of home -- Enduring domesticity : German novels of remarriage -- Feminized history : German men in American translation -- Family matters in postbellum America : Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman (1813-91) -- German fiction clothed in "so brilliant a garb" : Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908) -- Germany at twenty-five cents a copy : Mary Stuart Smith (1834-1917).…”
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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Gollin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer; or, The fleeing of the biographied / Brenda Wineapple.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Jesting in Earnest : Percival Everett and Menippean Satire / by Maus, Derek C.

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Make It New : Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century / by Beuttler, Bill

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Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature : Literary and Cultural Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Martín Rodríguez -- Mestizaje in Afro-Iberian writers Najat El Hachmi and Said El Kadaoui -- Moussaoui through the borderland theories of U.S. third world feminisms / Carmen Sanjuán-Pastor -- Toward a transnational Nos/otr@s scholarship in Chican@ and Latin@ studies / Ricardo F. …”
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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon / by Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-

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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

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Ghosts of the African Diaspora : Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity / by Chassot, Joanne

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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

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World Beats / by Fazzino, Jimmy, 1981-

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Learning to Live with Crime : American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn / by Wilson, Christopher P. (Christopher Pierce), 1952-

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The Novel Map : Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction / by Bray, Patrick M. (Patrick Maxwell)

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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature /

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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

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