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American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader, Michael Elliott, Claudia Stokes
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader, Michael Elliott, Claudia Stokes
Claudia Stokes
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questions of methodology that have invigorated and divided their field: the rise of interdisciplinarity and the wealth of theoretical methods now available to the critic of American literature. Their engagement with these issues takes a unique form in this book: Each scholar has chosen a methodologically innovative essay, which he or she then introduces, explaining why it is both exemplary in its approach and central to the issues that most engage American literary scholarship today. The book includes both an introduction to the controversial …
Writers In Retrospect: The Rise Of American Literary History, 1875-1910, Claudia Stokes
Writers In Retrospect: The Rise Of American Literary History, 1875-1910, Claudia Stokes
Claudia Stokes
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills"—from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intellectualism to demanding university administrators—and enjoyed immense popularity between 1880 and 1910. In the first major analysis of the field's early decades, Claudia Stokes offers important insights into the practices, beliefs, and values that shaped the emerging discipline and have continued to shape it for the last century. She considers particular personalities—including Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Dean Howells, …
Why Should Feminists Read The Bible?, Julie Kelso
Why Should Feminists Read The Bible?, Julie Kelso
Julie Kelso
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For many contemporary feminists, the Bible evokes a backward thinking, patriarchally defined body of literature and a social, political and economic ideological framework that has historically been used to maintain and perpetuate the oppression of women, along with that of non-white and/or non-Judeo-Christian 'others'.
A History Of Scandinavian Archaeology, Ole Klindt-Jensen
A History Of Scandinavian Archaeology, Ole Klindt-Jensen
Russell Poole
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