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Her turn on stage : the role of women in musical theatre / by Barnes, Grace, 1965-

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Love's whipping boy violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / by Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-

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It all happened in Renfro Valley / by Stamper, Pete, 1930-

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New voices on the Harlem Renaissance essays on race, gender, and literary discourse /

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History of music / by Miller, Hugh Milton, 1908-

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Tragedy by Leech, Clifford

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Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century / by Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856 -- The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900 -- Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins -- The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha" -- Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.…”
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The Gender of Modernism : A Critical Anthology /

Table of Contents: “…Djuna Barnes -- Willa Cather -- Nancy Cunard -- H.D. -- T.S. …”
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Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / by Edmunds, Susan, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere -- "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty -- "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio -- Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- "Not charity yet!" …”
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Urban underworlds a geography of twentieth-century American literature and culture / by Heise, Thomas, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…An overview and an underview: Uneven development and the social production of American underworlds -- Going down: Narratives of slumming in the ethnic underworlds of lower New York, 1890s-1910s -- Degenerate "Sex and the City": The underworlds of New York and Paris in the work of Djuna Barnes and Claude McKay, 1910s-1930s -- The black underground: Urban riots, the black underclass, and the work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, 1940s-1950s -- Wasted dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s -- White spaces and urban ruins: Postmodern geographies in Don DeLillo's underworld, 1950s-1990s.…”
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Messing with romance American poetics and antebellum southern fiction / by Ackermann, Zeno

Table of Contents: “…Salvational hybridizations: John P. Kennedy's Swallow barn (1832) -- 4. Titling the balance: Kennedy's and Caruthers' historical romances (1834-45) -- 5. …”
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Imagination and the contemporary novel by Su, John J.

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Filth dirt, disgust, and modern life /

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Modernism, satire, and the novel by Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1968-

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Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Curry -- Say what you will about Mercedes de Acosta / Robert A. Schanke -- Djuna Barnes: the most famous unknown / Susan F. Clark -- George Kelly, American playwright: characters in the hands of an angry god / Billy J. …”
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The changing Spanish family essays on new views in literature, cinema and theater /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Tiffany Trotman -- Why we are all in the club: El club de las malas madres / Catherine Bourland Ross -- Hypermodern families in Angela Vallvey's Los estados Carenciales / Tiffany Trotman -- All turbulent on the home front: unfulfilled working mothers in Almudena Grandes' Atlas de geografia humana / Lorraine Ryan -- New conceptions of family in contemporary Galician narrative: visions of maternity in the works of MarIa Jose Queizan and Teresa Moure / Marisol Rodriguez Rodriguez -- Feminism and motherhood in the police novels of Alicia Giménez Bartlett / Renee Craig-Odders -- Charting the new nuclear family in Pedro Almodovar's Los abrazos rotos / Samuel Amago -- Recovering gender: motherhood and female identity in El pajaro de la felicidad and Gary Cooper que esten Los cielos / Diana M. Barnes -- Picking a fight with domestic violence: new perspectives on patriarchy in contemporary Spanish cinema / Paul Begin -- Meet the nihilists: the disintegration of the contemporary Spanish family in Pedro Aguilera's La influencia / Amy L. …”
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Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

Table of Contents: “…sociobiology in images of African-American sensuality in contemporary cinema: or, why we'd better the hell claim Vin Diesel as our own / Steven Barnes -- A conversation with Samuel R. Delany about sex, gender, race, writing-and science fiction / Samuel R. …”
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