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This work contextualises and details Herman Melville's artistic career and outlines the relationship between Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Michael McLoughlin divides Melville's professional career as a novelist into two major phases corresponding to the growth and shift in his art.

This work is a study of the ways in which the cultural forces and discourses of gender inflect the practice and theory of three modernist British novelists, E.M. Forster, May Sinclair and D. H. Lawrence.

This book conducts a selective survey of twelve authors from colonized cultures showing how each writer has necessarily created hybrid texts, in which the voice of the opperessed and the language of the opressor blend.

Presents a story of the mutual influence of the case history and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book raises social and epistemological questions that challenge some of the Enlightenment's most cherished ideals, including faith in reason, the perfectibility of humankind, and the stability of truth.

The image of the runaway slave hiding out in the swamp exerted great power over the imagination of nineteenth century America. This book is a reappraisal of a subject that chimes with today's world.

Divided into three parts - history, theory and praxis, this book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime. It explores a survey of postmodern literature and contains key chapters on aesthetics and ethics. It is intended for both researchers and those interested in postmodern literature.

Examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and outside of US borders to evolving definitions of national American identity, this book explores divergent visions of contested spaces.

Reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as a site of instability and cultural impermanence. This book provides different ways of reading the relationships among urban culture, ruin, concepts of instability, and the formation of American literature.

Illustrates the relevance of thirties literature to contemporary debates in the humanities, surrounding the status of identity-based cultural studies. This book applies Zizek's theoretical work to a range of novels, calling for a reappreciation of Hegelian thought within Marxism.

An exploration of the significance of oral experiences in literature and in cross-cultural texts takes us on a tour of the pervasive pleasured, dreads, desires and dramas of the mouth.

This title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a deep affinity with ethical theories anchored in notions of obsession, persecution and trauma.

This work represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner and Toni Morrison.

Addressing issues of migration, cultural identity, and ethnography, this work is a major contribution to current debates over the origins and development of American literary modernism.

A study that explores those counter-seams of modern American writing that sit outside, or at least awkwardly within, agreed literary canons. It analyses three literary branches in the tradition: a re-envisioning of the whole Beat web or circuit; a consortium of postwar 'outrider' voices; and, a purview of what has been designated 'ethnic' writing.

Examines the literary, religious and political aspects of the radical movements and various sects. Featuring a chapter on John Milton, this book also addresses the legal problems that engaged the early modern radical reformers, the issue of radical religion as a negotiating tool and the limits of radical liberal thought.

Brings together a group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, and Robert Penn Warren. This book demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions.

This work argues that Modern novelists deployed the figure of the dying man to examine the trauma of cultural change and the crisis of masculinity during the transition period.

This book examines a sequence of crisis in nineteenth-century print culture in order to offer an original narrative of what it meant, and what it could have meant to be a Victorian Novelist.

The main purpose of this book is to show how post Second World War American artists represent new information and biomedical technologies and their effects on human identity and agency.

This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language. By drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do.

This study provides copious historical context for the role the Ottoman Empire played in the development of imperial discourses in a time when the colonial holdings of Great Britain increased exponentially.

Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th century novels of war.

Juxtaposing the work of Reznikoff, Oppen and WC William, with the camera work of Walker Evans, Lewis Hine and Alfred Stieglitz, this book exposes the fundamental affinities between documentary photography and modern poetry as forms of expression. It demonstrates how these poets comprised an alternative "tradition" dedicated to social realism.

Considers the place of the reader in the fictional world of the novel, looking at how authors work to orient and disorient within imaginative space.

Argues that the gender inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture.

This work analyses twentieth century fictional representations of popular music in the novels of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison, as a culturally fused, boundary crossing form of expression.