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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: From the Zend Avesta of Zarathustra to B.F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignityby Martin Seymour-SmithISBN 0806518650 (0-8065-1865-0)
Hardcover, Carol Pub Group
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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Though from Ancient Times to Todayby Martin Seymour-SmithISBN 0806520000 (0-8065-2000-0)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchangeby Timothy J. ReissISBN 0804743509 (0-8047-4350-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Ambassadorsby Henry JamesISBN 0809593998 (0-8095-9399-8)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ambassadors'Book summary:The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis [via]
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Baudelaireby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0811201899 (0-8112-0189-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baudelaire'Book summary:Sartre's study of Baudelaire is one of the more brilliant achievements of modern criticism. He turned abstractions like Existence and Being, Freedom and Nature, into a theory of psychoanalysis, grounded in man's creativity and opposed to Freudian determinism. Then he put the theory into practice in this book on Baudelaire. [via]
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Beating the Bushes; Selected Essays, 1941-1970.by John Crowe RansomISBN 0811201716 (0-8112-0171-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fictionby Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0805204504 (0-8052-0450-4)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuchby Thomas W. MannISBN 0804200858 (0-8042-0085-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Books at the Wake; A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wakeby James S. AthertonISBN 0809306875 (0-8093-0687-5)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The Books in My Lifeby Henry MillerISBN 0811201082 (0-8112-0108-2)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Books in My Life'Book summary:To the World Review London, for permission to reprint the chapter on Blaise Cendrars ;to Survival, New York, for the chapter on Rider Haggard. Grateful acknowledgment is herewith made to the following publishers and individuals for their kind permission to quote from the following works: Blackie Son Ltd., for Life of G. A. Henty by G. Melville Fenn. Borden Publishing Co., for The History of Magic by EH phas Levi. Coward-M c Cann, I nc., for Hill of Destiny by Jean Giono. C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., for The Absolute Collective by Erich Gudcind. James Ladd Delkin for Zen by A lan W. Watts. Doubleday Co., I nc., for The Story of My Life by Helen Keller. Druid Press for The Obstinate Cytnric by J. C. Powys. E. P. Dutton Co., I nc., for Cosmic Conscioustiess by R. M. Bunche and Magicians, Seers and Mystics by Maurice Magre. Editions Bernard Grasset for Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars. Falcon Press for Babu of Montpamasse by C. L. Phi Hppe. Harcourt, Brace Co., I nc., for In Search of the Miraadous by P. D. Ouspensky. Hermann Hesse for his article which appeared in Horizon, Sept., 1946. Houghton Mifflin Co., Constable Co., Ltd., for Mont Saint Michel and Chartres by Henry A dams. Henry Holt Co., I nc., for Nature and Man by Paul Weiss. Alfred A. Knopf, I nc., for Men of Good Will by Jules Romain. John Lane The Bodley Head for Autobiography by J. C. Powys. Frieda Lawrence for Studies in Classic American Literature, and Apocalypse hotk by D. H. Lawrence. Le Cercle Du Livre for Krishnamurti by Carlo Suar. Les Jtions Denoel for LeL otissement du Ciel and Bourlinguer-- both by Blaise Cendrars. Litde, Brown Co., for Schliemann by Emil Ludwig. Longmans, Green Co., Ltd., and A. P. Watt Son for The Days of My Life by H. Rider Haggard.
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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aestheticby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0809005425 (0-8090-0542-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Canterbury Talesby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 080850861X (0-8085-0861-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Canterbury Tales'Book summary:On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary genres. Five hundred years later, people are still reading Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If you haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Franklin, the Pardoner, or the Squire because you never learned Middle English, take heart: this edition of the Tales has been translated into modern idiom.
From the heroic romance of "The Knight's Tale" to the low farce embodied in the stories of the Miller, the Reeve, and the Merchant, Chaucer treated such universal subjects as love, sex, and death in poetry that is simultaneously witty, insightful, and poignant. The Canterbury Tales is a grand tour of 14th-century English mores and morals--one that modern-day readers will enjoy. [via]
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Charles Williams, Poet of Theologyby Glen CavalieroISBN 0802835791 (0-8028-3579-1)
Hardcover, Eerdmans
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Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Talesby V.A. KolveISBN 0804713499 (0-8047-1349-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Taleby Geoffrey ChaucerISBN 0812000390 (0-8120-0039-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale'Book summary:Begun soon after 1386 and written during several years that followed, Geoffrey Chaucer's great narrative poem The Canterbury Tales presents a richly detailed, highly entertaining, and sometimes bawdy picture of English society in the fourteenth century. Rich with humorous insights into the many foibles of humanity, this poem is considered by most literary critics and scholars to be the first great example of literary art written in vernacular English. Its narrative opens as a party of 30 men and women from various walks of life gather at the Tabard Inn in London, from where they set out on a holy pilgrimage to Canterbury and its shrine dedicated to Thomas à Becket. As they travel, each person has a story to tell.
The most famous and beloved of Chaucer's stories are presented in interlinear form this intensely readable volume. Alternating each of Chaucer's original lines with its translation into modern English, this book encourages readers to savor the genius of Chaucer's original poetry while following each line with an easy-to-understand modern translation of his Southeast Midlands dialect of Middle English. This scholarly yet truly approachable translation of Chaucer's original poem is the work of Vincent F. Hopper, a longtime professor of English literature at New York University. He opens with the famous Prologue--
Whan that Aprille with his shoures sote
When April with his showers sweet
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the rote,
The drought of March has pierced to the root
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- The Miller's Tale
- The Reeve's Tale
- The Prioress's Tale
- The Nun's Priest's Tale
- The Pardoner's Tale
- The Wife of Bath's Tale
- The Franklin's Tale . . . and more.
This fine volume also includes an enlightening introductory essay on Chaucer's art, with Professor Hopper's commentary on England as it existed in the fourteenth century. He concludes with a short list of recommended reading on Chaucer's time and his art. [via]More editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: The Squire's Tale:
Confidence Manby Herman MelvilleISBN 080490121X (0-8049-0121-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confidence Man'Book summary:Male, female, deft, fraudulent, constantly shifting: which of the `masquerade' of passengers on the Mississippi steamboat Fid `ele is `the confidence man'? The central motif of Melville's last and most `modern' novel can be seen as a symbol of American cultural history. No other edition of this fine novel is available in paperback. This book is intended for the general reader; students of nineteenth-century American literature. [via]
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Contemporary Literary Criticismby Sharon R. GuntonISBN 0810301199 (0-8103-0119-9)
Hardcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Studyby Anais NinISBN 0804000670 (0-8040-0067-0)
Softcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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David Copperfieldby Charles DickensISBN 0804900655 (0-8049-0065-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Millerby Erica JongISBN 0802133916 (0-8021-3391-6)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Draculaby Bram StokerISBN 0808519247 (0-8085-1924-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:[via]Awareness of Dracula as a masterly gothic thriller has increased ever since its publication in 1897, and the novel is regarded as one of the most seminal horror stories ever written, having inspired countless copycat tales and literary spin-offs. The tale of young Englishman Jonathan Harker's journey to Transylvania, into the very heart of Count Draculas evil realm, is compelling, but it is perhaps the journey of the vampire to Englandand the dangers he poses to Jonathans beloved Minathat is more horrifying. -
E. M. Forsterby Lionel TrillingISBN 0811202100 (0-8112-0210-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The End of the Novel of Loveby Vivian GornickISBN 0807062235 (0-8070-6223-5)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Everything and Nothingby Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby, John M. FeinISBN 0811214001 (0-8112-1400-1)
Softcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Everything and Nothing'Book summary:"Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."The New Yorker
Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything and Nothing compiles the most anthologized and widely read fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, "a giant of world literature" (John Updike, The New Yorker). Some of the narrative pieces herein contained are: "Pierre Menard" in which a modern writer reconstructs passages from Don Quixote that are verbally identical but read differently; "The Garden of Forking Paths," an intellectual variation on the detective-story genre; and "Nightmares," a lecture which, as Alastair Reid puts it, "shifts from personal memories to writers, to an examination of other peoples' metaphors, to language itself." Everything and Nothing serves as a perfect introduction to Borges's genius. [via]More editions of Everything and Nothing:
Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Leftby Alan M. WaldISBN 0807853496 (0-8078-5349-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left'Book summary:With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry.
In fashioning a "humanscape" of the Literary Left, Wald not only reassesses acclaimed authors but also returns to memory dozens of forgotten, talented writers. The authors range from the familiar Mike Gold, Langston Hughes, and Muriel Rukeyser to William Attaway, John Malcolm Brinnin, Stanley Burnshaw, Joy Davidman, Sol Funaroff, Joseph Freeman, Alfred Hayes, Eugene Clay Holmes, V. J. Jerome, Ruth Lechlitner, and Frances Winwar.
Focusing on the formation of the tradition and the organization of the Cultural Left, Wald investigates the "elective affinity" of its avant-garde poets, the "Afro-cosmopolitanism" of its Black radical literary movement, and the uneasy negotiation between feminist concerns and class identity among its women writers. [via]
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony S. AbbottISBN 0812034155 (0-8120-3415-5)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Far from the Madding Crowdby Thomas HardyISBN 0804901368 (0-8049-0136-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Femininity to Feminism: Women and Literature in the Nineteenth Centuryby Susan Rubinow GorskyISBN 0805789782 (0-8057-8978-2)
Softcover, Twayne Pub
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Feminist Utopiasby Frances BartkowskiISBN 0803212054 (0-8032-1205-4)
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Flannery O'connor And The Christ-Haunted Southby Ralph C. WoodISBN 0802829996 (0-8028-2999-6)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticismby Susan J. WolfsonISBN 0804736626 (0-8047-3662-6)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Four British Fantasists: Place And Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, And Susan Cooperby Charles ButlerISBN 081085242X (0-8108-5242-X)
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Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutionsby Jonathan D. CullerISBN 080612184X (0-8061-2184-X)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Gerard Manley Hopkinsby Kenyon CriticsISBN 0811204790 (0-8112-0479-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Glass, Irony and Godby Anne CarsonISBN 0811213021 (0-8112-1302-1)
Softcover, New Directions
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Known as a remarkable classicist, Anne Carson weaves contemporary and ancient poetic strands with stunning style in Glass, Irony and God. This collection includes: "The Glass Essay," a powerful poem about the end of a love affair, told in the context of Carson's reading of the Brontë sisters; "Book of Isaiah," a poem evoking the deeply primitive feel of ancient Judaism; and "The Fall of Rome," about her trip to "find" Rome and her struggle to overcome feelings of a terrible alienation there. [via]More editions of Glass, Irony and God:
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The History of Tom Jones: A Foundlingby Henry FieldingISBN 080490135X (0-8049-0135-X)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Iliad of Homerby Homer, Barbara Leonie PicardISBN 0809830329 (0-8098-3032-9)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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In Search of Duendeby Christopher Maurer, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni, Federico LorcaISBN 0811213765 (0-8112-1376-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Search of Duende'Book summary:The notion of "duende" became a cornerstone of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics over the course of his career.
In his lecture "Play and the Theory of Duende," he says, ". . .there are no maps nor disciplines to help us find the duende. We only know that he burns the blood like a poultice of broken glass, that he exhausts, that he rejects all the sweet geometry we have learned. . . ." The duende is portrayed by Lorca as a demonic earth spirit containing irrationality, earthiness, and a heightened awareness of death. In Search of Duende gathers Lorca's writings about the duende and about three art forms most susceptible to it: dance, music, and the bullfight. A full bilingual sampling of Lorca's poetry is also included, with special attention to poems arising from traditional Spanish verse forms. The result is an excellent introduction to Lorca's poetry and prose for American readers. [via]More editions of In Search of Duende:
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: A Symposiumby Mitsuru ShimpoISBN 0811204464 (0-8112-0446-4)
Softcover, New Directions
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Jane Austen and the Province of Womanhoodby Alison G. SullowayISBN 0812213386 (0-8122-1338-6)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creoleby Veronica Marie GreggISBN 0807845043 (0-8078-4504-3)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole'Book summary:As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends our critical appreciation of Rhys by analyzing the complex relationship between Rhys's identity and the structures of her fiction, and she reveals the ways in which this relationship is connected to the history of British colonization of the West Indies.
Gregg focuses on Rhys as a writera Creole woman analyzing the question of identity through literary investigations of race, gender, and colonialism. Arguing that history itself can be a site where different narratives collide and compete, she explores Rhys's rewriting of the historical discourses of the West Indies and of European canonical texts, such as Rhys's treatment of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea. Gregg's analysis also reveals the precision with which Rhys crafted her work and her preoccupation with writing as performance. [via]
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John Cheever, the Hobgoblin Company of Loveby George W. HuntISBN 0802835767 (0-8028-3576-7)
Hardcover, Eerdmans
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John Updike and the Three Great Secret Things: Sex, Religion, and Art/#07356by George W. HuntISBN 0802835392 (0-8028-3539-2)
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0804900868 (0-8049-0086-8)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Life and Times of William Shakespeareby Peter LeviISBN 0805015523 (0-8050-1552-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay. [via]More editions of The Life and Times of William Shakespeare:
Lost in Space: Probing Feminist Science Fiction and Beyondby Marleen S. BarrISBN 0807844217 (0-8078-4421-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Mansfield Parkby Jane AustenISBN 0804901317 (0-8049-0131-7)
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Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885by Elaine HadleyISBN 0804724032 (0-8047-2403-2)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Moll Flandersby Daniel DefoeISBN 0804902003 (0-8049-0200-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Moll Flanders: The Making of a Criminal Mindby Paula BacksheiderISBN 0805794298 (0-8057-9429-8)
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New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Traditionby Josephine DonovanISBN 0804421382 (0-8044-2138-2)
Hardcover, F. Ungar Pub Co
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Oliver Twistby Charles DickensISBN 0804900094 (0-8049-0009-4)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Paradise Lostby John MiltonISBN 0804901732 (0-8049-0173-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Play Called Corpus Christiby V.A. KolveISBN 0804702780 (0-8047-0278-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Mary KelleyISBN 0807854220 (0-8078-5422-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America'Book summary:In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother.
Drawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of Private Woman, Public Stage and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance. [via]
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Proustby Samuel BeckettISBN 080215025X (0-8021-5025-X)
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Quite Early One Morningby Dylan ThomasISBN 0811202089 (0-8112-0208-9)
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Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860by Richard SlotkinISBN 0806132299 (0-8061-3229-9)
Softcover, Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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The Return of the Nativeby Thomas HardyISBN 0808519905 (0-8085-1990-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essaysby Lemon, Lee T., Translator, Marion J. ReisISBN 0803254601 (0-8032-5460-1)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Centuryby Donald KeeneISBN 0805043640 (0-8050-4364-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Shopping in Space: Essays on America's Blank Generation Fictionby Elizabeth Young, Graham CaveneyISBN 0802133940 (0-8021-3394-0)
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Sir Walter Scottby John LauberISBN 0805769641 (0-8057-6964-1)
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Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fictionby James E. Gunn, Matthew CandelariaISBN 081084902X (0-8108-4902-X)
Softcover, Scarecrow Pr
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The Spirit of Romanceby Ezra Pound, Richard SieburthISBN 0811216462 (0-8112-1646-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Stranger Than Fiction: A Book of Literary Listsby Aubrey Dillon-MaloneISBN 0809299046 (0-8092-9904-6)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Studies in Henry Jamesby R. P. BlackmurISBN 0811208648 (0-8112-0864-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Taming of the Shrewby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910103 (0-8049-1010-3)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas HardyISBN 0804900825 (0-8049-0082-5)
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Tolstoyby Henri Troyat, Nancy AmphouxISBN 0802137687 (0-8021-3768-7)
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Topographiesby J. Hillis MillerISBN 0804723796 (0-8047-2379-6)
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Twelfth Nightby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812036042 (0-8120-3604-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0804901430 (0-8049-0143-0)
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Marina KastanISBN 0806943440 (0-8069-4344-0)
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The Window of Memory: The Literary Career of Thomas Wolfeby Richard S. KennedyISBN 0807840300 (0-8078-4030-0)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Writing Woman : Essays on Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modernby Sheila DelanyISBN 0805207562 (0-8052-0756-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modernby Sheila DelanyISBN 0805238697 (0-8052-3869-7)
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