The Ethics of Working Class Autobiography : Representation of Family by Four American Authors

Elizabeth Bidinger
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Focusing on the ethics of autobiography, this volume analyzes the works of four writers who spent much of their youth in working-class circumstances yet became highly educated intellectual professionals. Texts discussed are "Growing Up" by Russell Ba ...

Postfeminist Gothic : Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture

Benjamin A. Brabon
Hardcover - $129.95

"Postfeminist Gothic" explores new critical ground by addressing the intersection of two much debated and contentious concepts, postfeminism and Gothic. This edited collection of original and exciting essays examines a number of Gothic texts, from An ...

New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature : Utopian Transformations

Clare Bradford
Hardcover - $138.95

This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures.

Fiction and Economy

Susan Bruce
Hardcover - $138.95

This is a collection of new essays by European and British scholars on the intersections between fiction and economy.

The Future of Environmental Criticism : Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination

Lawrence Buell
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Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement.

Untimely Interventions : AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting

Ross Chambers
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Romance Today : An A-To-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers

John Charles
Hardcover - $180.95

America loves romance fiction. These works are extraordinarily popular among public library patrons and are widely read by high school students as well. Because the genre is so popular, new writers are constantly emerging, as are new works of fiction ...

Robbing the Mother : Women in Faulkner

Deborah Clarke
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A close look at William Faulkner's strange ambivalence toward maternal figures in his novels

Consuming Texts : Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870

Stephen Colclough
Hardcover - $138.95

This book is a history of reading in the British Isles from 1695-1870 that focuses on "common" rather than professional readers and which explores a range of previously undervalued sources.

Drama and the Sacraments in Sixteenth-Century England : Indelible Characters

David Coleman
Hardcover - $138.95

This book is a scholarly examination of the relationship between sacramental controversy and dramatic production in sixteenth-century England.