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Paperback. Bringing two voices into the discussion - Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon - to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by US liberal ideology, the author revises important ideas in the debate over individualism and the political theory of liberalism. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
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- New
- SKU
- V9780822326694
- ISBN
- 9780822326694
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Paperback. Offers fresh ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. This book examines white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 - literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film - and exposes the perverse infrastructure of whiteness. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFFJ; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326205
- ISBN
- 9780822326205
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Paperback. Tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Explaining that the word 'monster' is derived from the Latin for 'omen' or 'warning', the author begins with an exploration of the monster's early identity as a portent or messenger from God. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325680
- ISBN
- 9780822325680
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Paperback. Examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s and, conversely, what difference modernism made to the New Deal's famed invention of "Big Government." Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBLW; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325628
- ISBN
- 9780822325628
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Paperback. Combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. This title discusses the distinctly economic character of early modern subjectivity and how this, too, is implicated in our own modern modes of historical understanding. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; ACND; AGB; CFD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325475
- ISBN
- 9780822325475
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Paperback. Presents the Harlem Renaissance, exploring early challenges to the idea that race is a static category. Drawing on vernacular theories of African American literature from figures such as Henry Louis Gates Jr and Houston Baker, this book looks at the work of four fiction writers: James Johnson, Nella Larsen, George Schuyler, and Jean Toomer. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323457
- ISBN
- 9780822323457
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Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narrative...
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Paperback. Presents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323402
- ISBN
- 9780822323402
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Paperback. Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323150
- ISBN
- 9780822323150
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Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322962
- ISBN
- 9780822322962
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Paperback. A key participant in all the major debates in Latin American studies - beginning with the "boom" period of the 1960s and continuing through debates on ideology and discourse, Marxism, mass culture, and postmodernism - the author is recognised for her feminist critique of Latin American writing. This book offers a selection of her essays. Editor(s): Newman, Kathleen M.; Pratt, Mary Louise. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB; JFC; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 925.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322481
- ISBN
- 9780822322481
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paperback. Offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century, and provides a context for understanding debates about America's relation to the rest of the world. Ranging over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, this work contributes to debates about utopian thought, globalisation, and American literature. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322474
- ISBN
- 9780822322474
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Paperback. Is exile a falling away from a source of creativity associated with the wholeness of home and one's own language, or is it a spur to creativity? This book examines the complexities of exile and the diversity of its experiences. It is suitable for those who are interested in the problems of displacement and diaspora and the European Holocaust. Editor(s): Suleiman, Susan Rubin. Num Pages: 456 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ABA; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 756.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322153
- ISBN
- 9780822322153
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Paperback. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321170
- ISBN
- 9780822321170
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paperback. Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, this book challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century. It is of interest to readers engaged in literary and queer theory. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320494
- ISBN
- 9780822320494
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Paperback. The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches to early modern literary works, using King Lear as the focus of her argument, and offering a theoretical framework of her own. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320388
- ISBN
- 9780822320388
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Paperback. In narratives ranging from Eliot's and Trollope's novels about scandalous women to Oscar Wilde's writing and his trials for homosexuality, this book shows how, in each instance, sexuality appears couched in coded terms. It is suitable to scholars and general readers interested in Victorian literature, the history of sexuality, and gender studies. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318484
- ISBN
- 9780822318484
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Paperback. Ambivalent about the disruption, perplexity, and variety apparent in the London of his day, Johnson was committed to the conventions of moral reflection and troubled by the pressure to adopt the perspective of the crowd and the language of social theory. This work explores the consequences of his ambivalence and his attempt to order the chaos. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HPQ; JFSG; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822317173
- ISBN
- 9780822317173
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316695
- ISBN
- 9780822316695
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Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Paul Julian; Bergmann, Emilie. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 448 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 780.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316152
- ISBN
- 9780822316152
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Paperback. Editor(s): Arac, Jonathan; Ritvo, Harriet. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780822316121
- ISBN
- 9780822316121
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