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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.

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Utilizing key selections from American literature, this volume aligns with ELA Common Core Standards to give students a fresh perspective on and a keener understanding of slavery in the United States.

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Shows that tantalisation--the pursuit of objects that recede from all attempts to reach them--preoccupies much modern US fiction, and investigates the reasons behind this fascination.

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The sheer volume of these mostly unrewarded contributions is noteworthy, and this checklist should be consulted by researchers in women's studies as well as drama.

Playwrights include such noted writers as Susan Glaspell and Zora Neale Hurston in addition to many unremembered women, some of whom have entries for scores of plays.

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Profiles American women writers of the period, highlighting their contributions to important literary movements in 20th-century US history, especially modernism and the Harlem Renaissance.

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This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have travelled across 3000 years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live.

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Unfolding the spiritual and mythical background of the pagan narrative, this book shows how the contest between the mortal maid Psyche and the great goddess Aphrodite over the god Amor yields insights into the psychic life of women.

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This is the first study to cover Tan's entire oeuvre, and offers students and general readers an accessible, probing analysis of Tan's highly successful novels within broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality.

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The bulk of the Companion comprises alphabetically arranged entries on Bierce's major works and characters and on historical persons and writers who figured prominently in his life and career.

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Alphabetically arranged entries for Anne Tyler's works, characters, and themes.

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Albert provides a survey of the impact of jazz on both American and foreign fiction, along with an annotated listing of almost 400 short stories, novels, plays, and jazz fiction criticism.

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Since 1965 Geoffrey Shepherd's edition of Philip Sidney's "Apology" has been the standard, and this revision, with a new introduction and extensive notes, is designed to introduce the soldier-poet's work to a new generation of readers at the beginning of the 21st century.

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Bring favorite authors and children together in your classroom with these three acclaimed books. Each book includes biographical information, a photo page, booklists, and numerous activities designed to build reading skills by stimulating reading fun.

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a mystery in her own lifetime, and her poems continue to challenge their readers.

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H.P. Lovecraft is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. This encyclopedia is a guide to many aspects of Lovecraft's life and work, codifying the detailed research on Lovecraft conducted by many scholars since the 1970s.

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George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. -- .

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George Chapman's An Humorous Day's Mirth is one of the Elizabethan theatre's most successful comedies. In his new Revels edition, Charles Edelman presents a play that will delight today's readers and audiences as much as it did those of 1597. -- .

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"This book will be useful to students of Ibsen and therefore belongs in the reference collections of all but the smallest public and academic libraries. . . . In all respects admirable." Reference Books Bulletin

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There has been an explosion of interest in Francophone studies, as postcolonial and diaspora literatures more generally have gained recognition both within and outside the academy. The number of Francophone Caribbean women writers has increased, and the contributors explore this trend.