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Historicizing the demand for racial authenticity in 20th-century American literature, Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in "the real negro" transforms the question of what race an author belongs to into a question of what it takes to belong to that race.

Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates this phenomenon.

This book explores the written representation of African-American spoken-voice storytelling in African American writers from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Cade Bambara and John Edgar Wideman.

This book investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory and cultural criticism.

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), founded by artist and craftsman William Morris in 1877, sought to preserve the integrity of historic buildings by preventing unnecessary repairs and additions. This study traces the history of SPAB from it's foundation to its activities in England and Western Europe.

Argues that trans-historical, cross-cultural dialogues also reveal the global complexity of 18th-century cultural forms. This book reconsiders eighteenth-century literature, art, and drama. It also proposes that engagements with the British eighteenth century double as inquiries into whether the modern world has progressed since the 18th century.

Examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. This work has relevance for cultural studies in the Middle East, Africa, globalization, postcolonialism, and women's studies.

Positing that male homoeroticism is a crucial component of any comprehensive understanding of modernism and the crisis of modern masculine identity, this text explores how homoerotic affect - instantiated in the works of Rimbaud, Crane and Eliot - contributes to queer theory, and shows what poetry has to offer critical inquiry.

A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, this study traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel.

This text explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Carolyn R. Maibor illustrates the connection between the construction of a substantive self and the call for women to have increased access to the professions and higher education.

Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most popular women writers of the era.

Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.

In this book, Rudyard Alcocer offers a theory of Caribbean narrative, accounting for the complex interactions between scientific and literary discourses while expanding the horizons of narrative studies in general.

This book explores the construction of personal and poetic identity in the writing of Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth.

Examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity. This book offers an insight into both contemporary lyric and the lyric genre more generally.

American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. This work looks at how the realists tried to forge an ethical position between the two poles of science and sentimentality, attempting to create an alternative mode of speech that, avoiding the trap of codifying iteration, could enable ethical action.

This interdisciplinary study examines four major British and American novels in view of key concepts from the mainstream tradition of neo-classical economics. Authors studied include Defoe, Mary Shelley, Melville and Theodore Dreiser

This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were written. It argues that authors used familial processes as metephors to discuss critical issues.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.