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Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination

Uses a psychoanalytic approach to examine Cooper's novels and the emotional life that shaped them

By Stephen Railton

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Hardcover:

9780691643540 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $104.95

9780023195518, titled "Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining: Cases, Practice, and Law" | Macmillan Pub Co, January 1, 1995, cover price $77.00 | also contains Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining: Cases, Practice, and Law

9780691063584 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1978, cover price $41.00 | About this edition: Uses a psychoanalytic approach to examine Cooper's novels and the emotional life that shaped them

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9780691616230 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 8, 2015, cover price $41.95

The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser

Product Description: In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists. Using nineteenth-century theories of history as well as recent narratological models, she examines reconstructions of the past in The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Bostonians (1886), The Wings of the Dove (1902), and An American Tragedy (1925)...read more

By Susan L. Mizruchi

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9780691632568 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists.

9780691067254 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists.

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9780691603162 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $46.00

The American Biographical Novel

Product Description: Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few...read more

By Michael Lackey

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9781628926347 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 7, 2016, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels.

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9781628926330 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 7, 2016), cover price $29.95

Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium

A fan's reference to Egypt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century features contributions by leading archaeologists and Egyptologists, cultural data on Victorian social mores, and details about the series' characters.

By Kristen Whitbread

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9780060538118 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, November 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A fan's reference to Egypt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century features contributions by leading archaeologists and Egyptologists, cultural data on Victorian social mores, and details about the series' characters.

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9780062430304 | Reprint edition (William Morrow & Co, July 5, 2016), cover price $17.99

Pluralist Desires: Contemporary Historical Fiction and the End of the Cold War

By Philipp Loffler

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9781571139528 | Camden House, December 1, 2015, cover price $85.00

9780538846714, titled "Financial Accounting" | South-Western Pub, August 1, 2001, cover price $212.95 | also contains Financial Accounting

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture

By John E. Miller

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Hardcover:

9780826218230 | Univ of Missouri Pr, December 26, 2008, cover price $45.00

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9780826220769 | Reprint edition (Univ of Missouri Pr, February 9, 2016), cover price $19.95

Email Marketing in a Digital World: The Basics and Beyond

Product Description: This book will examine how organizations can optimize their use of email marketing. We will first briefly describe the history of email marketing and then discuss current best (and worst) practices. This is followed by an explanation of the evolving psychology of email and how peoples interactions with emails vary in meaningful ways across devices and contexts (e...read more

By Scott D. Swain

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9780521266765, titled "New Essays on the Scarlet Letter" | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | also contains New Essays on the Scarlet Letter | About this edition: The introduction to this volume outlines the critical history of the novel from the moralising reactions of Hawthorne's contemporaries, through the assessments of writers such as Henry James and D.

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9781606499924 | Business Expert Pr, August 15, 2015, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This book will examine how organizations can optimize their use of email marketing.

Picasso's Masterpieces: The MusÃ©e Picasso Paris Collection

Product Description: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire. Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs, Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, Old Mortality, Rob Roy, The Pirate and Redgauntlet, and Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Lionel Lincoln are given detailed new readings...read more

By Virginia Duchene-Alliot (editor)

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9780333681619, titled "Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction" | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1997, cover price $49.95 | also contains Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction | About this edition: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire.

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Family and Sectionalism in the Virginia Novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845

Product Description: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By John L. Hare

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9780415941570 | Routledge, October 1, 2002, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the sense of place in the Virginia novels of John Kennedy, William Caruthers, and Nathaniel Tucker.

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9780415762366 | Routledge, December 19, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: First published in 2002.

Truthful Fictions: Conversations With American Biographical Novelists

By Michael Lackey (editor)

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9781623567415 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 27, 2014, cover price $120.00

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9781623568252 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 27, 2014, cover price $29.95

Henry James and the Past: Readings into Time

An examination of the work of Henry James. Topics covered range from commodity and style in "Washington Square", to the peculiarity of social life in "The Bostonians". Other works by the author include "Ezra Pound: Tactics for Reading" and "Henry James's Fiction as History".

By Ian F. A. Bell

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9780312060824 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: An examination of the work of Henry James.

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9781349080588 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $79.99

Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction

Product Description: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire. Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs , Sydney Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl , Sir Walter Scott's Waverley , Old Mortality , Rob Roy , The Pirate and Redgauntlet , and Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and Lionel Lincoln are given detailed new readings...read more

By Ian Dennis

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9780333681619 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 1, 1997, cover price $49.95 | also contains Picasso's Masterpieces: The Musée Picasso Paris Collection | About this edition: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire.

9780312172442 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1997, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire.

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9781349255597 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $79.99 | About this edition: Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire.

African American Women Writers' Historical Fiction

Product Description: This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel...read more

By Ana Nunes

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9780230112537 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 15, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century.

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9781137363718 | Reprint edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 17, 2013), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century.

Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South

By Jason Phillips (editor)

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9780807150344 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, June 10, 2013, cover price $48.00

Reading History in Children's Books

By Hallie O'donovan

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9780230278080 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 21, 2012, cover price $100.00

The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obesession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible

By Matti Friedman

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9781616200404 | Algonquin Books, May 15, 2012, cover price $24.95

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9780226260808, titled "The New World of James Fenimore Cooper" | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1982, cover price $17.00 | also contains The New World of James Fenimore Cooper

Absalom, Absalom!

By David Madden (editor)

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9781587658341 | Salem Pr Inc, September 15, 2011, cover price $95.00

Leather-Stocking Redux; Or, Old Tales, New Essays

By Jeffrey Walker (editor)

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9780404644734, titled "Leather-Stocking Redux; Or, Old Tales, New Essays: Or, Old Tales, New Essays" | Ams Pr Inc, June 30, 2011, cover price $97.50

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition and Revolution

Product Description: This is the first analysis of the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his perception of history. In his study, Charles Swann examines the whole of Hawthorne's literary career and gives proper weight to the unfinished work. Hawthorne saw history as a struggle between the authoritative claims of tradition on the one hand and the conflicting but equally valid claims of the desires for revolutionary transformation on the other...read more

By Charles Swann

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9780521365529 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $114.99 | About this edition: This is the first analysis of the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his perception of history.

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9780521109932 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This is the first analysis of the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his perception of history.

Cooper's Leather-Stocking Novels: A Secular Reading

Product Description: James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction. Here, Geoffrey Rans provides not simply a new reading of the five novels that comprise the series but also a new way of reading them...read more

By Geoffrey Rans

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9780807819753 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction.

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9780807857472 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: James Fenimore Cooper's Leather-Stocking tales, published between 1823 and 1841, are generally regarded as America's first major works of fiction.

Covenant and Republic: Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism

Product Description: Covenant and Republic investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical literature of Puritanism. By situating historical writing about Puritanism in the context of the cultural forces of Republicanism and liberalism, this study reconsiders the emergence of the historical romance in the 1820s, before the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Philip Gould

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9780521554992 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $139.99 | About this edition: Covenant and Republic investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical literature of Puritanism.

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9780521555326 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 11, 2009), cover price $49.99 | About this edition: Covenant and Republic investigates the cultural politics of historical memory in the early American republic, specifically the historical literature of Puritanism.

Toni Morrison's Beloved

Product Description: Acclaimed as the greatest American novel of the last quarter century, 'Beloved' confronts the legacy of slavery and its aftermath. The full-length essays in this volume provide a comprehensive critical overview of this modern classic.

By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9781604131840 | 2 new edition (Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 2009), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed as the greatest American novel of the last quarter century, 'Beloved' confronts the legacy of slavery and its aftermath.

Doubled Plots: Romance and History

Product Description: Doubled Plots: Romance and History edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden, with essays by Susan L. Blake, Stephanie Burley, Mary Paniccia Carden, Rita B. Dandridge, Janet Dean, Charles H. Hinnant, Rita Keresztesi, Huining Ouyang, Susan Strehle, and Karin E...read more

By Mary Paniccia Carden (editor) and Susan Strehle (editor)

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9781578065905 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, December 1, 2003, cover price $50.00

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9781604732511 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 1, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Doubled Plots: Romance and History edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden, with essays by Susan L.

9780138266943, titled "Spectrum 1: A Communicative Course in English" | Workbook edition (Regents/Prentice Hall, January 1, 1982), cover price $8.20 | also contains Spectrum 1: A Communicative Course in English

Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction

Product Description: The world reflected in post-modernist fiction is one of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility. Stacey Olster challenges this view by distinguishing American post-modernism--with respect to the views of historical processes that its practitioners share...read more

By Stacey Olster

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9780521363839 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The world reflected in post-modernist fiction is one of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility.

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9780521109802 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2009), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: The world reflected in post-modernist fiction is one of chance and randomness, devoid of historical intelligibility.

Pynchon And History: Metahistorical Rhetoric And Postmodern Narrative Form In The Novels Of Thomas Pynchon

By Shawn Smith

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Hardcover:

9780415975438 | Routledge, July 13, 2005, cover price $150.00

Paperback:

9780415803373 | Routledge, April 1, 2009, cover price $54.95

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