We are pleased and excited about our just-published coedited book, The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. In our introduction (available in full on the Cambridge University Press book page), we discuss the exigence and shape of our book. Here’s a few excerpts from that introduction, which we hope will entice you to read the introduction […]
Read MoreStarting in 2015, in the wake of the shooting of ten members of the Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC by white supremacist Dylann Roof, a movement grew to dismantle the icons of the Confederacy throughout the South. Shortly after the shooting, Bree Newsome climbed up a flagpole on the grounds of the South Carolina […]
Read MoreVolume 6 of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, spanning June 1934 through June 1936, includes 366 items of correspondence, directed to 116 recipients. In our introductions to the volume, we note that Hemingway’s enthusiasm for the growing sport of deep-sea fishing is a dominant theme of his letters of this period. Accordingly, in the photos […]
Read MoreWilliam Faulkner at his home in Oxford, Mississippi, ca. 1932 In 2016, a handmade booklet of drawings and poems turned up on an episode of Antiques Roadshow from Little Rock, Arkansas. The man who owned the piece described it as “a book of poems by William Faulkner,” and appraiser Ian Ehling, now Director of Fine […]
Read MoreIn late 2022, BMW began manufacturing their new hybrid SUV, the XM. The German automaker had unveiled the vehicle in concept form a year earlier—at an Art Basel event they sponsored in Miami Beach, Florida. Promoting the forthcoming release of a “product unlike anything [BMW had] ever produced,” the company paired the vehicle’s premiere with […]
Read MoreWhat is the American Graphic Novel? Why is it important to study its form, history, and content, and how should one approach this endeavor while opening new ground for the examination of graphic narrative in general? These are some of the key questions addressed in this collection that brings together the best specialists in the […]
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