(Paperback)

This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920sincluding work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Faulker, and otherscontributed to shaping the national imagination.

(Hardback)

The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twains audience as a unique reading communityhow his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he impacted American publishing, literacy, and educational reform, and how Americans loved the theatricality and humor that Twain brought to their lives.

(Paperback)

The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twains audience as a unique reading communityhow his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he impacted American publishing, literacy, and educational reform, and how Americans loved the theatricality and humor that Twain brought to their lives.

(Hardback)

The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rocks attention to human rights in the global community.

(Paperback)

The Rock Music Imagination explores creativity in classic rock, its roots in the blues, and its wide cultural impact. The romantic strains of rock imagination are examined in the songs of popular rock bands, the sixties counterculture, science fiction, the rock music novel, and rocks attention to human rights in the global community.