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American Lit Remixed argues that literary texts use music to combat the artifice and alienation of the digital age. Works by well known authors and less familiar ones draw from mixtapes, remixes, vinyl records, and cassettes to reinvent identity and community, as well as literary form.

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While volumes have been generated about the Great Depression, relatively little work has been done on the social transformations during the 1930s and few attempts have been made to relate these transformations to American literary humor.

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The history of modern American literature is inextricably tied to the history of the literary magazine.

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The book collects Pizers late career essays on various writers and subjects related to American naturalism.

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This book discusses how and why American modernist writers turned to Ireland at various stages during their careers. By placing events such as the Celtic Revival and the Easter Rising at the centre of the discussion, it shows how Irishness became a cultural determinant in the work of American modernists. -- .

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Mimicry of and ribaldry in American literature from its beginnings to the Lost (and Found) Generation. E.B. White, H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Henry David Thoreau and Corey Ford are among the contributors.

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This book examines spectatorship in texts by Theodore Dreiser, Miriam Michelson, Irvin S. Cobb, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. As a figure who is simultaneously within and outside the crowd, the spectator is in a unique position to express the fractures between the individual and t...

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This book examines spectatorship in texts by Theodore Dreiser, Miriam Michelson, Irvin S. Cobb, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. As a figure who is simultaneously within and outside the crowd, the spectator is in a unique position to express the fractures between the individual and the collective in American society.

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A reference guide to American literature, with more than four hundred entires devoted to aspects of American history, literary movements, influential writers and key texts. It is suitable for students of American literature at any level, and it is also relevant to those interested in American history and American Studies.

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This collection of lessons emphasizes using primary sources, such as digitized sheet music and sound recordings, contemporary accounts, and photographs, to illustrate how American music reflects and influences the social and political history of a time period.

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A guide to research on American mystery and detective novels emphasizing the historical development of the genre and major critical approaches to the literature.

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This reference includes biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Naturalistic and Realistic novelists.

An introductory essay discusses the history of the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions, points to the difficulty of defining them, and surveys the many authors who have been associated with the two movements.

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Offering a new introduction to an important yet overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines their work as a group while giving special attention to their individual trajectories.

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Hilton Obenzinger explores two "infidel texts" in this tradition: Herman Melville's Clarel: A Poem and Pilgramage to the Holy Land (1876) and Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress (1869). He shows that these works undermined conventional assumptions about America's divine mission.

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A critical account of the 1975 Schizo-Culture conference, which Michel Foucault called the last countercultural event of the 1960s, and its direct and indirect connection to American experimental literature.

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During the years 1880 to 1945, American theatre grew up, moving from entertainment-driven motives and melodramatic formulas to serious confrontations with issues of its time and to an experimentation with forms that would allow those confrontations to be frank and earnest.

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This collection of brand new essays by a leading team of experts encourages readers to appreciate the rich formal, thematic, and ethnic diversity and inclusivity of post-war American poetry. It provides fresh critical perspectives on, and ways of reading, familiar poets such as Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

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American Romanticism, Education, and Social Reform argues that American Transcendentalism was an attempt to institutionalize and popularize Romantic literary practice. The Transcendentalists tried to make Romantic education the generating idea of society itself, so self-reliance needed to become a cultural practice available to everyone.