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Allen, Gay Wilson, & Ed Folsom, eds. Walt Whitman and the World.

Amato, Joe. Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture.

Asselineau, Roger, Foreword by Ed Folsom. The Evolution of Walt Whitman.

Barr, Marleen S. Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction.

Barr, Marleen S. Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies.

Bennett, Paula. Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet.

Berman, Russell A. Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture.

Blake, David Haven, & Michael Robertson, eds. Walt Whitman, Where the Future Becomes Present.

Bock, Carol. Charlotte Brontë and the Storyteller's Audience.

Bosco, Ronald A., & Joel Myerson, eds. Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Bosco, Ronald A., & Jillmarie Murphy, eds. Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Bradfield, Scott. Dreaming Revolution: Transgression in the Development of American Romance.

Bryson, J. Scott. The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry.

Burns, E. Bradford. Kinship with the Land: Regionalist Thought in Iowa, 1894-1942.

Burroughs, Catherine B., & Jeffrey David Ehrenreich, eds. Reading the Social Body.

Cane, Aleta Feinsod, & Susan Alves, eds. "The Only Efficient Instrument": American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916.

Casey, Janet Galligani, ed. The Novel and the American Left: Critical Essays on Depression-Era Fiction.

Clark, Steve, & Mark Ford, eds. Something We Have That They Don't: British and American Poetic Relations since 1925.

Coats, Karen. Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children's Literature.

Cognard-Black, Jennifer, & Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, eds. Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Authors, 1865-1935.

Coles, Robert. A Robert Coles Omnibus.

Crawford, Robert, ed. Robert Burns and Cultural Authority.

Dana, Robert, ed. A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Dickie, Margaret. On the Modernist Long Poem.

Dodd, Wayne. Toward the End of the Century: Essays into Poetry.

Duncan, Patti. Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech.

Dusinberre, Juliet. Virginia Woolf's Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader?

Dyer, Carolyn Stewart, & Nancy Tillman Romalov, eds. Rediscovering Nancy Drew.

Edwards, Justin D. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic.

Elbert, Monika, Julie E. Hall, & Katherine Rodier, eds. Reinventing the Peabody Sisters.

Engle, Paul, Foreword by Albert E. Stone. A Lucky American Childhood.

Fitz, Earl E. Rediscovering the New World: Inter-American Literature in a Comparative Context.

Folsom, Ed, ed. Whitman East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman.

Folsom, Ed, ed., Drawings by Guido Villa. Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays.

Foster, Shirley, & Judy Simons. What Katy Read: Feminist Re-Readings of 'Classic' Stories for Girls, 1850-1920.

Frost, Elisabeth A. The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry.

Frost, Elisabeth A., & Cynthia Hogue, eds. Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews.

Giamo, Benedict. The Homeless of "Ironweed": Blossoms on the Crag.

Gilliland, Gail. Being a Minor Writer.

Goodridge, Celeste. Hints and Disguises: Marianne Moore and Her Contemporaries.

Goslee, David. Tennyson's Characters: "Strange Faces, Other Minds".

Gray, Janet. Race and Time: American Women's Poetices from Antislavery to Racial Modernity.

Gray, Janet, ed. She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

Gray, Timothy. Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community.

Greenberg, Arielle, & Rachel Zucker, eds. Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections.

Greenberg, Martin. The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth.

Grünzweig, Walter. Constructing the German Walt Whitman.

Halpert, Sam. Raymond Carver: An Oral Biography.

Haralson, Eric, ed. Reading the Middle Generation Anew: Culture, Community, and Form in Twentieth-Century American Poetry.

Harp, Jerry, & Jan Weissmiller, eds. A Poetry Criticism Reader.

Harris, W. C. E Pluribus Unum.

Heberle, Mark A. A Trauma Artist: Tim O'Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam.

Herzog, Tobey C. Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler.

Hollenberg, Donna Krolik, ed. Between History and Poetry: The Letters of H.D. and Norman Holmes Pearson.

Hollenberg, Donna Krolik, ed. H.D. and Poets After.

Hollingsworth, Cristopher. Poetics of the Hive: The Insect Metaphor in Literature.

Inness, Sherrie A., & Diana Royer, eds. Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing.

Jablon, Madelyn. Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African American Literature.

Japtok, Martin. Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction.

Jason, Philip K., ed. Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature.

Jayne, Edward. Negative Poetics.

Jenkins, G. Matthew. Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry after 1945.

Joyce, Joyce Ann. Richard Wright's Art of Tragedy.

Kaivola, Karen. All Contraries Confounded: The Lyrical Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marguerite Duras.

Kilcup, Karen L., ed. Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition.

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie. Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics.

Kinnahan, Linda A. Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse.

Kipling, Rudyard, Thomas Pinney, ed. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 3: 1900-1910. (Out of print)

Kipling, Rudyard, Thomas Pinney, ed. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 4: 1911-19.

Kipling, Rudyard, Thomas Pinney, ed. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 5: 1920-1930

Kipling, Rudyard, Thomas Pinney, ed. The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 6:1931-36

Kohn, Denise, Sarah Meer, & Emily B. Todd, eds., Foreword by Joan Hendrick. Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture.

Krieg, Joann P. A Whitman Chronology.

Krieg, Joann P. Whitman and the Irish.

Larson, Charles R. Invisible Darkness: Jean Toomer and Nella Larsen.

Lawson, Andrew. Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle.

Lazar, David, ed. Truth in Nonfiction: Essays.

Lewis, Nghana tamu. Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920-1945.

Lewis, Nigel. The Book of Babel: Words and the Way We See Things.

Linzie, Anna. The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies.

Loving, Jerome. Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance.

Lowney, John. History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968.

Loving, Jerome. Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance.

Mack, Stephen John. The Pragmatic Whitman: Reimagining American Democracy.

Mani, B. Venkat. Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk.

Martin, Robert K. The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry.

Martin, Robert K., ed. The Continuing Presence of Walt Whitman: The Life after the Life.

Martin, Robert K., & Eric Savoy, eds. American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative.

Martin, Robert K., & Leland S. Person, eds. Roman Holidays: American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy.

Maynard, Katherine K. Thomas Hardy's Tragic Poetry: The Lyrics and "The Dynasts".

McFarland, Thomas. Shapes of Culture.

McGavran, James Holt, ed. Literature and the Child: Romantic Continuations, Postmodern Contestations.

Melton, Judith M. The Face of Exile: Autobiographical Journeys.

Mercer, Peter. "Hamlet" and the Acting of Revenge.

Metres, Philip. Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941.

Michael, Magali Cornier. New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison.

Miller, Edwin Haviland. Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Miller, Edwin Haviland. Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Mosaic of Interpretations.

Miller, Edwin Haviland, ed. Selected Letters of Walt Whitman.

Mix, Deborah M. A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innovative Writing.

Moddelmog, William E. Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Province of the Law, 1880-1920.

Monk, Craig. Writing the Lost Generation: Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism.

Myerson, Joel, ed. Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Nadel, Alan. Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon.

Nelson, Maggie. Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions.

Novy, Marianne L. Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists.

O'Donnell, Patrick. Echo Chambers: Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative.

O'Donnell, Patrick. Passionate Doubts: Designs of Interpretation in Contemporary American Fiction.

Orel, Harold, ed. The Brontës: Interviews and Recollections.

Parker, Michael. Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet.

Pichaske, David R., Foreword by Wayne Franklin. Rooted: Seven Midwest Writers of Place.

Paul, Sherman. Hewing to Experience: Essays and Reviews on Recent American Poetry and Poetics, Nature and Culture.

Payne, Judith A., & Earl E. Fitz. Ambiguity and Gender in the New Novel of Brazil and Spanish America: A Comparative Assessment.

Petesch, Donald A. A Spy in the Enemy's Country: The Emergence of Modern Black Literature.

Pinkney, Tony. D. H. Lawrence and Modernism.

Pinsker, Sanford. Bearing the Bad News: Contemporary American Literature and Culture.

Porter, Horace A. Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America.

Ray, Martin, ed. Joseph Conrad: Interviews and Recollections.

Reigelman, Milton M. The Midland: A Venture in Literary Regionalism.

Rhodes, Chip. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel.

Rieke, Alison. The Senses of Nonsense.

Root, Robert L., Jr. E. B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist.

Rosendale, Steven, ed. The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment.

Rossen, Janice. Philip Larkin: His Life's Work.

Rudd, Jill, & Val Gough, eds. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Optimist Reformer.

Ryden, Kent C., Foreword by Wayne Franklin. Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing, and the Sense of Place.

Salwak, Dale, ed. Anne Tyler as Novelist.

Salwak, Dale, ed. Philip Larkin: The Man and His Work.

Salwak, Dale, ed. The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions.

María Carla Sánchez. Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America.

Schmidgall, Gary, ed. Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's "Conservator," 1890-1919.

Schmidgall, Gary, ed. Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman's Conversations with Horace Traubel, 1882-1892.

Schneider, Richard J., ed., Foreword by Lawrence Buell. Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing.

Scholl, Peter A. Garrison Keillor.

Selwyn, David, ed. The Poetry of Jane Austen and the Austen Family.

Shaker, Bonnie James. Coloring Locals: Racial Formation in Kate Chopin's "Youth's Companion" Stories.

Shaw, Lytle. Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie.

Shaw, Peter. The War against the Intellect: Episodes in the Decline of Discourse.

Shealy, Daniel, ed. Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.

Siemerling, Winfried, & Katrin Schwenk, eds. Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism and the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literature.

Sinor, Jennifer. The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary.

Smith, Evans Lansing. James Merrill, Postmodern Magus.

Stape, J. H., ed. Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections.

Stitt, Peter. Uncertainty and Plenitude: Five Contemporary Poets.

Terry, R. C., ed. Robert Louis Stevenson: Interviews and Recollections.

Thomas, M. Wynn. Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K..

Thompson, Graham. Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature.

Trites, Roberta S. Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature.

Trites, Roberta S. Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel.

Trites, Roberta S. Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels.

Tylee, Claire M. The Great War and Women's Consciousness: Images of Militarism and Womanhood in Women's Writings.

Ungar, Steven, & Betty R. McGraw, eds. Signs in Culture: Roland Barthes Today.

Vernon, Alex. Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien.

Vines, Lois Davis, ed. Poe Abroad: Influence, Reputation, Affinities.

von der Heydt, James E. At the Brink of Infinity: Poetic Humility in Boundless American Space.

Voros, Gyorgyi. Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens.

Wardrop, Daneen. Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge.

Warren, Joyce W. Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts.

Weiss, Jason. Writing at Risk: Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers.

Weissbort, Daniel, ed. Translating Poetry: The Double Labyrinth.

Weyler, Karen A. Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814.

Willis, Elizabeth, ed. Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place.

Wilson, Edmund, Neale Reinitz, ed. The Higher Jazz.

Wolmark, Jenny. Aliens and Others: Science Fiction, Feminism and Postmodernism.

Woodland, Malcolm. Wallace Stevens and the Apocalyptic Mode.

Woodruff, Jay, ed. A Piece of Work: Five Writers Discuss Their Revisions.

Wright, Charlotte M. Plain and Ugly Janes: The Rise of the Ugly Woman in Contemporary American Fiction.

Young, David. Six Modernist Moments in Poetry.

Young, David. Troubled Mirror: A Study of Yeats's "The Tower". (Out of print)

Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar. Images of Germany in American Literature.

Zhou, Xiaojing. The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry.

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