American Enchantment presents a new understanding of the social order after the American Revolution, one that enacts the concept of enchantment as a unique way of describing and coalescing popular pow ... 続きを読む
Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out o ... 続きを読む
American Modernism and Depression Documentary surveys the uneven terrain of American modernity through the lens of the documentary book. Jeff Allred argues that photo-texts of the 1930s stage a set of ... 続きを読む
Introduces readers to a genre many find challenging, vast, and contentious in an accessible and enjoyable style
Offers a new theory of American poetry
Argues that two characteristics define Ame ... 続きを読む
Looking at texts written throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway, American Writers and World Wa ... 続きを読む
How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by t ... 続きを読む
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many in Britain believed their nation to be a dominant world power that its former colony, the United States, could only hope to emulate. Yet by the interwar ... 続きを読む
Each tale evokes a different aspect of this beautiful and fascinating city
Draws together a selection of genres and literary styles, featuring memoirs alongside short stories
Offers the reader ... 続きを読む
One of the most important literary personalities of twentieth century Bengali literature, Buddhdaeva Bose also wrote extensively in the English language on subjects that interested him. Literature is ... 続きを読む
These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller an ... 続きを読む
