Search Results - "writer"

Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

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Hip Sublime : Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition /

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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

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Making the "America of Art" : Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers / by Sofer, Naomi Z.

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Adventures of the Spirit : The Older Woman in the Works of Doris, Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers /

Table of Contents: “…Spiritual adventuring by other contemporary women writers --…”
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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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Jesting in Earnest : Percival Everett and Menippean Satire / by Maus, Derek C.

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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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

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World Beats / by Fazzino, Jimmy, 1981-

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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

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Literary Transcendentalism : Style and Vision in the American Renaissance by Buell, Lawrence

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South Asian Atlantic Literature, 1970-2010 / by Maxey, Ruth

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Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930 / by Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941-

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Philosophies of Sex : Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite /

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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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