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Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis
The Industrial Revolution to the Present
ISBN: 9781647791599
Pub Date: 24 September 2024
Format: Paperback
258 Pages
Concentrating on a powerful, emerging genre, Tatiana Konrad’s Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis provides a survey of popular narratives that further our understanding of climate change...
The Writings of Norman Maclean
Seeking Truth amid Tragedy
ISBN: 9781647791674
Pub Date: 20 August 2024
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
With a foreword by John N. Maclean, son of Norman MacleanThe Writings of Norman Maclean: Seeking Truth amid Tragedy provides the first critical reassessment of this celebrated author’s work in more...
Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose
1800 to the Present
ISBN: 9781647791421
Pub Date: 12 March 2024
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Richard W. Etulain examines the emergence of Pacific Northwest prose beginning in the early nineteenth century up to the present. The book provides an introductory overview to a vast subject through...
Protecting the Spanish Woman
Gender Identity and Empowerment in María de Zayas's Works
ISBN: 9781647790844
Pub Date: 5 September 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Zayas defies Spanish hegemony by manipulating and transforming the ideals of courtly masculinity.
Worlding the Western
Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community
ISBN: 9781647790554
Pub Date: 13 September 2022
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Worlding the Western takes the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a re-examination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to put the world back in ways that challenge the dark side of globalization and proposes worlding as a different and more open form of politics.
Savage West
The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage
ISBN: 9781647790677
Pub Date: 10 January 2022
Format: Paperback
257 Pages
Savage West is a literary biography chronicling the life and novels of neglected Montana novelist, Thomas Savage (1915-2003). It seeks to restore him to a high position in the ranks of western American, let alone Montanan, literature.
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote
ISBN: 9781647790189
Pub Date: 30 November 2021
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Perceptive study of the life of writer and artist Mary Hallock Foote
Farm to Form
Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire
ISBN: 9781948908368
Pub Date: 4 March 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Farm to Form is the first book to investigate the relationship between the rise of industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. By weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism together, Farm to Form contends that industrial food production transformed the natural world into a “modernist” terrain that shaped new literary forms, positioning modernism as central to the study of narratives of resistance against social and environmental degradation.
Make Waves
Water in Contemporary Literature and Film
ISBN: 9781948908429
Pub Date: 16 October 2019
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Make Waves demonstrates how water is an immense reservoir of artistic potentiality and an agent of historical and cultural exchange and raises awareness about global water debates and crises.
Becoming Willa Cather
Creation and Career
ISBN: 9781948908276
Pub Date: 21 August 2019
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
Drawing on original archival research and paying unprecedented attention to the author’s early short stories, Daryl W. Palmer offers a groundbreaking account of Willa Cather’s evolution as a writer. Readers will encounter a surprisingly adventurous young author, embracing a predilection for experimentation—in life and art—that resulted in her emergence as a major novelist intent on reimagining the American West.
Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis
The Industrial Revolution to the Present
ISBN: 9781647791599
Pub Date: 24 September 2024
Format: Paperback
258 Pages
The Writings of Norman Maclean
Seeking Truth amid Tragedy
ISBN: 9781647791674
Pub Date: 20 August 2024
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Illuminative Moments in Pacific Northwest Prose
1800 to the Present
ISBN: 9781647791421
Pub Date: 12 March 2024
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Protecting the Spanish Woman
Gender Identity and Empowerment in María de Zayas's Works
ISBN: 9781647790844
Pub Date: 5 September 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Worlding the Western
Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community
ISBN: 9781647790554
Pub Date: 13 September 2022
Format: Paperback
272 Pages
Worlding the Western takes the fiction of the Western United States as a focal point for a re-examination of the consequences of exceptionalism and closed borders in the Trump Era. At a time of bounded individualism, new nativism, climate emergency, and migration crises, author Neil Campbell argues that fiction offers opportunities to put the world back in ways that challenge the dark side of globalization and proposes worlding as a different and more open form of politics.
Savage West
The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage
ISBN: 9781647790677
Pub Date: 10 January 2022
Format: Paperback
257 Pages
Exile, Nature, and Transformation in the Life of Mary Hallock Foote
ISBN: 9781647790189
Pub Date: 30 November 2021
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Farm to Form
Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire
ISBN: 9781948908368
Pub Date: 4 March 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Make Waves
Water in Contemporary Literature and Film
ISBN: 9781948908429
Pub Date: 16 October 2019
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Becoming Willa Cather
Creation and Career
ISBN: 9781948908276
Pub Date: 21 August 2019
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages