Louisiana State University Press
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Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, History, Knihy, Nonfiction
Kenneth W. Noe's Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend boldly questions the long-accepted notion that the sixteenth president was an almost-perfect commander in chief, more intelligent than his generals. The legend originated with Lincoln himself,…1 320 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Investigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp magazines…856 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different from one another, show a consistent commitment to formal experimentation motivated by a love of language and the…924 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Inventions on the Brink, a collection of literary journalism by J. T. Barbarese, offers engagingly plainspoken and informed essays on American poetry from Edgar Allan Poe to the present, written by a poet with long…891 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
Queer Allusion uncovers the crucial but underexamined role played by literary allusion in shaping queer poetry on both sides of the Atlantic, from the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895 to the Stonewall Riots of…1 122 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Engages the lengthy debate over the ivory-bill woodpecker’s status by examining reported sightings and extensive efforts to find the rare bird in Louisiana.759 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
The Devil's Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy's Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts,…1 386 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
Features ten in-depth essays that provide fresh, diverse perspectives on Kate Chopin’s first novel, At Fault. The essays in this volume provide multiple approaches for understanding this complex work, with particular attention to the dynamics…1 271 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Tongues of Fire is a collection of sermons and other writings by Black preachers that speak directly to lynching in the Jim Crow era. The collection, expertly edited and annotated by Aaron M. Treadwell, features…1 254 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Carin Peller-Semmens's Unreconstructed grapples with the longstanding, systemic effects of white supremacist brutality in northwest Louisiana, highlighting the constancy of racial subjugation in one of the most violent areas of the South. Tracing the commitment…1 650 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Joshua R. Shiver's War Fought and Felt advances our grasp of the links between masculinity, emotion, and relationships during the American Civil War. It is the first broadly researched, multidisciplinary, and statistically supported approach to…1 254 Kč Koupit
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