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Forgetting Fathers:
Untold Stories from an Orphaned Past Author: David Marshall
The Fiction of Samuel Beckett
Form and Effect Author: H. Porter Abbott
Beyond Solidarity Cover
Beyond Solidarity
Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World Author: Giles Gunn
Empire and Environment, by Heidi Amin-Hong
Empire and Environment
Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific Edited by Heidi Amin-Hong and Jeffrey Santa Ana, Rina Garcia Chua, Zhou Xiaojing
Renaissance Ecology Cover
Renaissance Ecology:
Imagining Eden in Milton's England Author: Ken Hiltner
Thinking Across the American Grain Cover
Thinking Across the American Grain
Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism Author: Giles Gunn
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In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity Author: Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Real Mysteries Narrative and the Unknowable Cover
Real Mysteries
Narrative and the Unknowable Author: H. Porter Abbott
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Whitman Possessed
Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority Author: Mark Maslan
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The Age of Innocence, Norton Critical Edition
by Edith Wharton Edited by Candace Waid
Inseparable Cover
Inseparable
The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History Author: Yunte Huang
Cribs Author: Yunte Huang
Ordinary Pleasures Cover
Ordinary Pleasures
Couples, Conversation, and Comedy Author: Kay Young
Milton and Ecology
Milton and Ecology Author: Ken Hiltner
Hope at Sea Cover
Hope at Sea
Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Author: Teresa Shewry
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Writing South/East Asia in English
Against the Grain, Focus on Asian English-Language Literature Author: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Local Transcendence:
Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database Author: Alan Liu
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Reading the Literatures of Asian America Edited by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Amy Ling
City, Marriage, Tournament Cover
City, Marriage, Tournament
Arts of Rule in Late Medieval Scotland Author: L.O. Aranye Fradenburg
A forward glance: new essays on Edith Wharton cover
A Forward Glance
New Essays on Edith Wharton Edited by Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt, Susan Goodman
Approaches to Teaching Kingstons The Woman Warrior Cover
Approaches to Teaching Kingston's The Woman Warrior Edited by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Czech Broadside Ballads, Ed. Patricia Fumerton
Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, and Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900 Edited by Patricia Fumerton and Marie Hanzelková and Pavel Kosek.
After Political Correctness Cover
After Political Correctness
The Humanities and Society in the 1990s Edited by Christopher Newfield and Ron Strickland
The Textuality of Old English Poetry Cover
The Textuality of Old English Poetry Author: Carol Braun Pasternack
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Premodern Sexualities Edited by L.O. Aranye Fradenburg and Carla Freccero

  • The inscriptive . . . takes shape within the context of a heightened awareness of the intensified generation and circulation of language across media environments by human and nonhuman agents alike…

    Inscriptive Studies
    Toward a Field Articulation
    Edited by Rita Raley and Paul Benzon

  • Poetic and abolitionist imaginaries continue to intervene in our current political and cultural landscape in ways that challenge the violent status quo. As our beautiful vision reminds us, we are not the passive observers of history…

    Antiracism Inc.
    Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters
    Edited by Felice Blake and Paula Ioanide, Alison Reed
The Making of a Broadside Ballad

2016

In the fall of 2013, we asked ourselves what we’d learn if we made a broadside ballad from the ground up; The Making of a Broadside Ballad provides our answers to that question. Taking cues ...

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