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Exiles on main street Jewish American writers and American literary culture / by Levinson, Julian

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Main street and empire the fictional small town in the age of globalization / by Poll, Ryan, 1975-

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Along the streets of Bronzeville : black Chicago's literary landscape / by Schlabach, Elizabeth Schroeder

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Street smarts and critical theory listening to the vernacular / by McLaughlin, Thomas, 1948-

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Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret : Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication / by Kearns, Michael S., 1947-

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Womanhood in Anglophone literary culture nineteenth and twentieth century perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…: literary recuperations of Harlem's streets /…”
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Paper Money Men Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Sphere in Antebellum America / by Anthony, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Sleepy hollow," gothic masculinity, and the panic of 1819 -- Shylock on Wall Street; or, the Jessica complex in antebellum sensationalism -- Banking on emotion: debt and male submission in the urban gothic -- Tabloid manhood, speculative femininity -- "Success" and race in the House of the seven gables.…”
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Paper Money Men : Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Sphere in Antebellum America / by Anthony, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Sleepy hollow," gothic masculinity, and the panic of 1819 -- Shylock on Wall Street; or, the Jessica complex in antebellum sensationalism -- Banking on emotion: debt and male submission in the urban gothic -- Tabloid manhood, speculative femininity -- "Success" and race in the House of the seven gables.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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From the modernist annex American women writers in museums and libraries / by Roffman, Karin

Table of Contents: “…Women and the mutual development of museums and libraries -- Museums and memory in Edith Wharton's modern novels -- Nella Larsen, librarian at 135th Street -- Accidents happen in Marianne Moore's native habitat -- Finding freedom from museums and libraries in Ruth Benedict's poetry -- Conclusion.…”
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Moral Enterprise Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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Moral Enterprise : Literature and Education in Antebellum America / by Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. …”
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New directions in American reception study

Table of Contents: “…Roemer -- Richard Wright's Native son: from naturalist protests to modernist liberation and beyond / Philip Goldstein -- Main street reading Main street / Amy L. Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial González -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? …”
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"Shakin' up" race and gender intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / by Sánchez, Marta Ester

Table of Contents: “…"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo.…”
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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy -- Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth -- Roman fever revisited.…”
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Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature : Literary and Cultural Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Reading, from Don Quijote de la Mancha to The house on Mango Street: Chicano/a literature, mimesis, and the reader / Manuel M. …”
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