Misery's Mathematics : Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature [1 ed.] 9780203504000, 9780415968072

Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature 9780812204247

Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately invoked in American public culture than the concept of priva

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Poets of Protest: Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature 9783839437452

Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythologica

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The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture 9780812205190

Drawing on a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, false slave narratives, minstrel song-shee

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Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation 9780823292189

Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation examines the writing of catastrophe, mass d

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Inexpressible Privacy : The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature [1 ed.] 9780812204247, 9780812220230

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Few concepts are more widely discussed or more passionately

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Antebellum American Culture: An Interpretive Anthology 9780271075372

First published in 1979, this volume offers students and teachers a unique view of American history prior to the Civil W

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Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature 9781351696883, 9781138045101, 9781315172118

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Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America [1 ed.] 9781613764732, 9781625342379

The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just a

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Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature 0192856278, 9780192856272

Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamin

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American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature 9780812203189

American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding

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