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Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain

By Morris (editor), S. Kittrell Rushing (editor) and David B. Sachsman (editor)

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Paperback:

9781557534408 | Purdue Univ Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $29.95

Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain

Product Description: Memory and Myth is an interdisciplinary study of the Civil War and its enduring impact on American writers and filmmakers. Its twenty-five chapters are all concerned, in one way or another, with creative responses to the Civil War, and the ways in which artists have sought to make sense of the war and to convey their findings to succeeding generations of readers and filmgoers...read more

By Morris (editor), S. Kittrell Rushing (editor) and David B. Sachsman (editor)

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9781557534392 | Purdue Univ Pr, May 1, 2007, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Memory and Myth is an interdisciplinary study of the Civil War and its enduring impact on American writers and filmmakers.

Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

By Robert L. Phillips

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Hardcover:

9780878055319 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, January 1, 1992, cover price $37.00

The Distant Mirror: Reflections on Young Adult Historical Fiction

Directed to teachers and librarians, explores various approaches to young adult historical fiction and examines such issues as race, class, war, and gender and how they are treated in selected novels.

By Joanne Brown and Nancy St. Clair

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9780810856257 | Scarecrow Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Directed to teachers and librarians, explores various approaches to young adult historical fiction and examines such issues as race, class, war, and gender and how they are treated in selected novels.

Gore Vidal's Historical Novels And the Shaping of American Political Consciousness

Product Description: This study explores Gore Vidal's use of classical sceticism in his historical novels and in his politics. This is written against the backdrop of an analysis of the general genre of historical novels and the particular way that Vidal has used his re-versions and re-viewing of American history to give voice to his concerns for American despotism and exploitative use of power for imperial control...read more

By Stephen Harris

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9780773460317 | Edwin Mellen Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This study explores Gore Vidal's use of classical sceticism in his historical novels and in his politics.

A Sober Desire For History: William Gilmore Simms As Historian

By Sean R. Busick

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9781570035654 | Univ of South Carolina Pr, February 28, 2005, cover price $34.95

Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City

Product Description: Ken Burns, creator of the television documentary The Civil War, has called Shelby Foote a ânational treasure.â Foote, whose appearances on the program helped solidify its phenomenal success, earned a reputation among the general public as one of the nationâs leading Civil War historians...read more

By James Panabaker

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9781572333185 | 1 edition (Univ of Tennessee Pr, November 30, 2004), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Ken Burns, creator of the television documentary The Civil War, has called Shelby Foote a ânational treasure.

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9780072399318, titled "Wellness: Selections from Connections for Health and Lifetime Fitness and Wellness" | Custom edition (McGraw-Hill College, June 1, 1999), cover price $33.40 | also contains Wellness: Selections from Connections for Health and Lifetime Fitness and Wellness

African American Servitude and Historical Imaginings: Retrospective Fiction and Repsentation

By Margaret I. Jordan

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Hardcover:

9781403964977 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 21, 2004, cover price $105.00

A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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By Kirk Curnutt (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780195153026 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 14, 2004, cover price $74.00

Paperback:

9780195153033 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 14, 2004, cover price $51.00

Herman Wouk: The Novelist As Social Historian

Product Description: Arnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace...read more

By Arnold Beichman

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9780878554980 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 1984, cover price $40.95

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9780765808363 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 2004, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Arnold Beichman's comprehensive study of the writings of Herman Wouk, one of America's leading writers, shows how Wouk's plays and novels exemplify an extraordinary and often highly perceptive preoccupation with American society in war and in peace.

Cultural Secrets As Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America

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By Margaret Reid

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9780814209479 | Ohio State Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $129.95

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9780814251188 | Ohio State Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by REID, MARGARET

Cultural Secrets As Narrative Form: Storytelling in 19th C America

By Margaret Reid

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9780814290385 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, April 1, 2004), cover price $9.95

Johnny Tremain and the American Revolution

Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Esther Forbes' novel, Johnny Tremain, for which she won a Newbery Award in 1943--just a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel.

By Corona Brezina

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9780823945047 | 1 edition (Rosen Pub Group, February 1, 2004), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Esther Forbes' novel, Johnny Tremain, for which she won a Newbery Award in 1943--just a year after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel.

Toni Morrison's Beloved

Product Description: It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter, Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution...read more

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9780791075708 | Chelsea House Pub, September 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A critical overview of the work features such contributors as Bernard W.

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9780791052235 | Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 1998, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved

Library:

9780791045169 | Chelsea House Pub, August 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved

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9780613708258 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $45.30 | About this edition: It is the mid-1800s.

The Threads of the Scarlet Letter: A Study of Hawthorne's Transformative Art

By Richard Kopley

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9780874137699 | Univ of Delaware Pr, December 1, 2003, cover price $39.50

Trumpeting a Fiery Sound: History and Folklore in Margaret Walker's Jubilee

Product Description: When twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, For My People, won the Yale Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning her long and distinguished career as a poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher. When her novel Jubilee was published to great acclaim in 1966, the New York Review of Books said, "[It] chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondages...read more

By Jacqueline Miller Carmichael

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9780820320106 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, For My People won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning her long and distinguished career as a poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher.

Paperback:

9780820325750 | Reprint edition (Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: When twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Walker's first collection of poems, For My People, won the Yale Poets Award in 1942, she was just beginning her long and distinguished career as a poet, novelist, biographer, and teacher.

Reader's Guide to the Scarlet Letter

By Nancy Carr (editor), Joseph Coulson (editor) and Steve Hettleman (editor)

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9781880323892 | Great Books Foundation, June 1, 2003, cover price $12.95

William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook

Product Description: Absalom, Absalom! has long been seen as one of William Faulkner's supreme creations, as well as one of the leading American novels of the twentieth century. In this collection Fred Hobson has brought together eight of the most stimulating essays on Absalom, essays written over a thirty-year span which approach the novel both formally and historically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Fred C. Hobson (editor)

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9780195154771 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 26, 2003, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Absalom, Absalom!

Paperback:

9780195154788 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 26, 2003, cover price $51.00

Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining: Cases, Practice, and Law

Providing students with a realistic picture of actual collective bargaining and labor relations situations drawn from the authors' considerable experiences, this distinctively up-to-date introduction contains separate chapters on benefits, wage issues, discrimination laws, and international labor relations, and integrates many recent examples throughout to support discussions.

By Michael R. Carrell and Christina Heavrin

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9780131868724 | 8 edition (Prentice Hall, July 27, 2006), cover price $180.00

9780131400528 | 7 edition (Prentice Hall, May 1, 2003), cover price $148.00

9789990053326 | 7 edition (Prentice Hall, May 1, 2003), cover price $0.02

9780130194749 | 6th edition (Prentice Hall, July 1, 2001), cover price $110.00

9780137686070 | 5th edition (Prentice Hall, November 1, 1997), cover price $96.00 | also contains Apoptotic Chromatin Changes | About this edition: Providing students with a realistic picture of actual collective bargaining and labor relations situations drawn from the authors' considerable experiences, this distinctively up-to-date introduction contains separate chapters on benefits, wage issues, discrimination laws, and international labor relations, and integrates many recent examples throughout to support discussions.

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Narrative and the Nature of Worldview in the Clare Savage Novels of Michelle Cliff

Product Description: Jamaican-born Michelle Cliff is the author of several notable works of fiction. Two of her novels, Abeng (1984) and No Telephone to Heaven (1987), feature Clare Savage, a character who continuously struggles with the conflicting values of her European father and African-Jamaican mother...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By William Tell Gifford

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9780820445915 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 1, 2003, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Jamaican-born Michelle Cliff is the author of several notable works of fiction.

Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier: Five Perspectives

Product Description: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier provides the reader with a broad sweep of information on Wilder not readily available in any other format. Included in this work are: discussions of Wilder's life; her writings and their influence on the interpretation of the American frontier, the feminine role in frontier life, Native American relations; and the use of the Little House as a teaching tool...read more

By Dwight M. Miller (editor)

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9780761822844 | Univ Pr of Amer, July 1, 2002, cover price $70.50 | About this edition: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier provides the reader with a broad sweep of information on Wilder not readily available in any other format.

Paperback:

9780761822851 | Univ Pr of Amer, May 1, 2002, cover price $46.99 | About this edition: Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier provides the reader with a broad sweep of information on Wilder not readily available in any other format.

The Fiction of Gore Vidal and E. L. Doctorow: Writing the Historical Self

Product Description: This book offers a close study of the relationship between the individual and history - between a particularly American idea of self and how this is experienced in relation to the broader flow of events and time that shape human experience. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Stephen Harris

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9780820458557 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This book offers a close study of the relationship between the individual and history - between a particularly American idea of self and how this is experienced in relation to the broader flow of events and time that shape human experience.

9783906768434 | Peter Lang, May 1, 2002, cover price $73.95 | About this edition: This book offers a close study of the relationship between the individual and history â between a particularly American idea of self and how this is experienced in relation to the broader flow of events and time that shape human experience.

E.L. Doctorow

A collection of critical essays explore the works of the American author. (view table of contents)

By Harold Bloom (editor)

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9780791064511 | Chelsea House Pub, December 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A collection of critical essays explore the works of the American author.

Forgetting Futures: On Meaning, Trauma, and Identity

Product Description: Forgetting Futures reignites the debate about the crisis of memory and the search to understand the relationship between past and present, remembering and forgetting. In the book Petar Ramadanovic presents an elegant critique of the most significant concepts of memory, from Plato to Nietzsche, as he challenges the prevalent, Aristotelain understanding of memory as mere repeated presentation of the past in the present...read more

By Petar Ramadanovic

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9780739102756 | Lexington Books, December 1, 2001, cover price $91.00 | About this edition: Forgetting Futures reignites the debate about the crisis of memory and the search to understand the relationship between past and present, remembering and forgetting.

The Story of Jazz: Toni Morrison's Dialogic Imagination

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By Justine Tally

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9783825853648 | Lit Verlag, September 1, 2001, cover price $22.95

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