American literature of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. Cambridge Companions to Literature
Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture Joanna Freer University of Sussex
2015 228 x 152 mm 308pp 2 b/w illus. 978-1-107-04036-6 Hardback £50.00 / US$80.00
This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture.
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The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel Edited by Joshua Miller University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of US modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on US immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts. Cambridge Companions to Literature
2015 228 x 152 mm 296pp 5 b/w illus. 978-1-107-08395-0 Hardback £59.99 / US$89.99 978-1-107-44589-5 Paperback £17.99 / US$27.99 For all formats available, see
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Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature Dominic Mastroianni Clemson University, South Carolina
This volume explores the way in which antebellum American writers perceived the political implications of modern philosophical skepticism. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 169
2014 229 x 152 mm 232pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-07617-4 Hardback £59.99 / US$94.99 For all formats available, see
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American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens Mark Noble Georgia State University
At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, Mark Noble explores poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 171
2015 228 x 152 mm 242pp 978-1-107-08450-6 Hardback £60.00 / US$90.00 For all formats available, see
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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature Paul Downes University of Toronto
Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States. It looks at Puritan sermons and poetry, foundingera political debates and representations of revolutionary and anti-slavery violence to reveal how Americans imagined the elusive possibility of a democratic sovereignty. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 172
2015 228 x 152 mm 350pp 4 b/w illus. 978-1-107-08529-9 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Fictions of Mass Democracy in NineteenthCentury America Stacey Margolis University of Utah
This book examines how mass democracy was understood before public opinion could be measured by polls. It demonstrates how novels by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs and James Fenimore Cooper attempt to understand a public organized by political discourse and informal social networks. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 173
2015 228 x 152 mm 219pp 978-1-107-10780-9 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War Cody Marrs University of Georgia
Nineteenth-century American literature is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 174
2015 228 x 152 mm 206pp 9 b/w illus. 978-1-107-10983-4 Hardback £64.99 / US$99.99 For all formats available, see
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Time, Tense, and American Literature When Is Now? Cindy Weinstein California Institute of Technology
In Time, Tense, and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place. This book argues that key texts in the archive of American literature are inconsistent in their retrospective status, ricocheting between past, present, and future. Advance praise: ‘Cindy Weinstein, our finest contemporary scholar of sentimentalism, makes the temporal turn in Time, Tense, and American
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