New Acquisitions in American Literature
for Olin Library, SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2007

After the Bell : Contemporary American Prose about School. Iowa City:University of Iowa Press, 2007. OLIN PS509.E36 A36 2007

American Literary Geographies : Spacial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900. Newark:University of Delaware Press, 2007. OLIN PS169.G47 A8 2007

The Apocalypse Reader. New York; Enfield:Thunder's Mouth; Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2007. OLIN PS648.S5 A66 2007

Baby Remember My Name : An Anthology of New Queer Girl Writing. New York:Carroll & Graf, 2007. OLIN PS648.L47 B326 2007

Best Black Plays : The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting. Evanston, Ill:Northwestern University Press, 2007. OLIN PS627.N4 B47 2007

"Burning Interiors" : David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Madison N.J.:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3569.H34 Z58 2007

Complicating Constructions : Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts. Seattle:University of Washington Press, 2007. OLIN PS153.M56 C65 2007

Empire and the Literature of Sensation : An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Popular Fiction. New Brunswick, N.J:Rutgers University Press, 2007. OLIN Oversize PS653 .E67 2007+

Faulkner and Material Culture : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004. Jackson:University Press of Mississippi, 2007. OLIN PS3511.A86 Z78321176 2004

Faulkner's Inheritance : Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2005. Jackson:University Press of Mississippi, 2007. OLIN PS3511.A86 Z78321178 2005

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin : A Casebook. Oxford ; New York:Oxford University Press, 2007. OLIN PS2954.U6 H36 2007

Harriet Wilson's New England : Race, Writing, and Region. Durham, N.H; Hanover:University of New Hampshire Press; Published by University Press of New England, 2007. OLIN PS3334.W39 Z69 2007

The International Reception of T.S. Eliot. London:Continuum, 2007. OLIN PS3509.L43 I57 2007

Laugh Lines : Short Comic Plays. New York:Vintage Books, 2007. OLIN PS627.C65 L38 2007

Memory and Myth : The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Cold Mountain. West Lafayette, Ind:Purdue University Press, 2007. OLIN PS374.C53 M46 2007

Representations of Death in Nineteenth-Century US Writing and Culture. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate Pub., 2007. OLIN PS217.D43 R47 2007

Revising the Blueprint : Ann Petry and the Literary Left. Jackson:University Press of Mississippi, 2007. OLIN PS3531.E933 Z86 2007

Richard Brautigan : Essays on the Writings and Life. Jefferson, N.C:McFarland & Co., 2007. OLIN PS3503.R2736 Z84 2007

Risk, Courage, and Women : Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry. Denton:University of North Texas Press, 2007. OLIN PS508.W7 R57 2007

Shadows of the New Sun : Wolfe on Writing, Writers on Wolfe. Liverpool:Liverpool University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3573.O52 Z977 2007

The Unraveling Archive : Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2007. OLIN PS3566.L27 Z946 2007

Craig S. Abbott. Forging Fame : The Strange Career of Scharmel Iris. DeKalb:Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3517.R5 Z55 2007

Amos Bronson Alcott. Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875. Madison N.J.:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. OLIN PS1013.A43 N68 2007

Elizabeth Alexander. Power and Possibility : Essays, Reviews, and Interviews. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2007. OLIN PS310.N4 A43 2007

Rae Armantrout. Collected Prose. San Diego, Calif:Singing Horse Press, 2007. OLIN PS3551.R455 C65 2007

Branka Arsic. Passive Constitutions, Or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby. Stanford, Calif:Stanford University Press, 2007. OLIN PS2387 .A77 2007

Dorothy Zayatz Baker. America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana. Columbus:Ohio State University Press, 2007. OLIN PS166 .B35 2007

Rebecca Beasley. Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3531.O82 Z5456 2007

Kim Becnel. The Rise of Corporate Publishing and its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth-Century America. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PS228.A87 B43 2008

Wendell Berry. Conversations with Wendell Berry. Jackson:University Press of Mississippi, 2007. OLIN PS3552.E75 Z46 2007

Sara Blair. Harlem Crossroads : Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, N.J:Princeton University Press, 2007. OLIN PS153.N5 B563 2007

Alex E. Blazer. I Am Otherwise : The Romance between Poetry and Theory After the Death of the Subject. Normal, Ill:Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. OLIN PS323.5 B55 2007

Melissa Bostrom. Sex, Race, and Family in Contemporary American Short Stories. New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PS374.S5 B67 2007

David Brauner. Philip Roth. Manchester, UK ; New York, NY; New York, NY:Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusiverly in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. OLIN PS3568.O855 Z59 2007

Mitchell Robert Breitwieser. National Melancholy : Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature. Stanford, Calif:Stanford University Press, 2007. OLIN PS169.N35 B74 2007

Zander Brietzke. American Drama in the Age of Film. Tuscaloosa:The University of Alabama Press, 2007. OLIN PS350 .B75 2007

Marta Caminero-Santangelo. On Latinidad : U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity. Gainesville:University Press of Florida, 2007. OLIN PS153.H56 C36 2007

Michael Collier. Make Us Wave Back : Essays on Poetry and Influence. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2007. OLIN PS3553.O474645 M35 2007

Leland De la Durantaye. Style is Matter : The Moral Art of Vladimir Nabokov. Ithaca:Cornell University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3527.A15 Z675 2007

Anne Day Dewey. Beyond Maximus : The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry. Stanford, Calif:Stanford University Press, 2007. OLIN PS266.N8 D48 2007

Michael Dowdy. American Political Poetry in the 21st Century. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PS310.P6 D69 2007

Robert M. Dowling. Slumming in New York : From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem. Urbana:University of Illinois Press, 2007. OLIN PS374.N43 D69 2007

Joseph B. Entin. Sensational Modernism : Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America /. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2007. OLIN PS374.E95 E58 2007

Andre Furlani. Guy Davenport : Postmodern and After. Evanston, Ill:Northwestern University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3554.A86 Z66 2007

Anita Gandolfo. Faith and Fiction : Christian Literature in America Today. Westport, Conn:Praeger, 2007. OLIN PS374.C48 G36 2007

Richard Godden. William Faulkner : An Economy of Complex Words. Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire:Princeton University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3511.A86 Z78342 2007

Piotr Gwiazda. James Merrill and W.H. Auden : Homosexuality and Poetic Influence. New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PS3525.E6645 Z67 2007

Eugene Hayworth. Fever Vision : The Life and Works of Coleman Dowell. Champaign, IL:Dalkey Archive Press, 2007. OLIN PS3554.O932 Z63 2007

LaMonda Horton-Stallings. Mutha' is Half a Word : Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture. Columbus:Ohio State University Press, 2007. OLIN PS153.N5 H68 2007

Jerry Hunter. Sons of Arthur, Children of Lincoln : Welsh Writing from the American Civil War. Cardiff:University of Wales Press, 2007. OLIN PS217.C58 H86 2007

Anthony Hutchison. Writing the Republic : Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction. New York:Columbia University Press, 2007. OLIN PS374.P6 H87 2007

Laura Jackson. The Failure of Poetry, the Promise of Language. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2007. OLIN Rare Books PS3519.A363 Z46 2007; PS3519.A363 Z46 2007

Jennifer C. James. A Freedom Bought with Blood : African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II /. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2007. OLIN PS153.N5 J393 2007

Bridget A. Kevane. Profane & Sacred : Latino/a American Writers Reveal the Interplay of the Secular and the Religious. Lanham:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. OLIN PS153.H56 K483 2008

Stacey Jean Klein. Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy : A Literary Life. Columbia:University of South Carolina Press, 2007. OLIN PS2663 .K58 2007

Lazaro Lima. The Latino Body : Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory. New York:New York University Press, 2007. OLIN PS153.M4 L54 2007

Scott MacFarlane. The Hippie Narrative : A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture. Jefferson, N.C:McFarland & Co., 2007. OLIN PS374.C68 M33 2007

Ajuan Maria Mance. Inventing Black Women : African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877-2000. Knoxville:University of Tennessee Press, 2007. OLIN PS310.N4 M36 2007

Brendan Martin. Paul Auster's Postmodernity. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PS3551.U77 Z695 2008

Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez. Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer : A Critical Biography. Albuquerque:University of New Mexico Press, 2007. OLIN PS3527.I66 Z78 2007

John Matteson. Eden's Outcasts : The Story of Louisa may Alcott and Her Father. New York:W.W. Norton, 2007. OLIN New & Noteworthy Books PS1018 .M34 2007

Gabriel Mckee. The Gospel According to Science Fiction : From the Twilight Zone to the Final Frontier. Louisville:Westminster John Knox Press, 2007. OLIN PS374.S35 M4 2007

Philip Metres. Behind the Lines : War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941. Iowa City:University of Iowa Press, 2007. OLIN PS309.P7 M45 2007

Seth Moglen. Mourning Modernity : Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism. Stanford, Calif:Stanford University Press, 2007. OLIN PS228.M63 M64 2007

Linda Morris. Gender Play in Mark Twain : Cross-Dressing and Transgression. Columbia:University of Missouri Press, 2007. OLIN PS1338 .M67 2007

Alleen Pace Nilsen. Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature. Lanham, Md:Scarecrow Press, 2007. OLIN PS490 .N57 2007

Deborah G. Plant. Zora Neale Hurston : A Biography of the Spirit. Westport, Conn:Praeger Publishers, 2007. OLIN PS3515.U789 Z824 2007

Ben Railton. Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation : American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876-1893. Tuscaloosa:University of Alabama Press, 2007. OLIN PS214 .R35 2007

Reena Sastri. James Merrill : Knowing Innocence. New York:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PS3525.E6645 Z83 2007

Maeera Shreiber. Singing in a Strange Land : A Jewish American Poetics. Stanford, Calif:Stanford University Press, 2007. OLIN PS153.J4 S57 2007

Merrill Maguire Skaggs. Axes : Willa Cather and William Faulkner. Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press, 2007. OLIN PS3505.A87 Z853 2007

Janis P. Stout. Picturing a Different West : Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Austin and Cather. Lubbock:Texas Tech University Press, 2007. OLIN PS3505.A87 Z862 2007

John Sykes. Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and the Aesthetic of Revelation. Columbia:University of Missouri Press, 2007. OLIN PS3565.C57 Z88 2007

Leonard Tennenhouse. The Importance of Feeling English : American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850. Princeton ; Oxford:Princeton University Press, 2007. OLIN PS159.E5 T46 2007

Brook Thomas. Civic Myths : A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2007. OLIN PS374.C49 T48 2007

Nicolas Tredell. Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby : A Reader's Guide. London ; New York:Continuum, 2007. OLIN PS3511.I9 G888 2007

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism. New York:W. W. Norton & Co., 2007. OLIN PS1306 .A1 2006

Linda Wagner-Martin. Ernest Hemingway : A Literary Life. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PS3515.E37 Z8225 2007

Annette Wannamaker. Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture : Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PS374.C454 W36 2008

Mary McCartin Wearn. Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PS217.M65 W43 2008

Mark Whalan. Race, Manhood, and Modernism in America : The Short Story Cycles of Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer. Knoxville:University of Tennessee Press, 2007. OLIN PS3501.N4 W577 2007

Andrew Wilson. Harold Robbins : The Man Who Invented Sex. New York:Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007. OLIN New & Noteworthy Books PS3568.O224 Z95 2007

Brian Yothers. The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PS366.T73 Y68 2007