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Ezra Pound: A jargoner's apprenticeship, with an appendix on the origin and significance of birds symbolism
Natural arguments: Popular discourse and environmental legislation, 1945--2007
All over: The identities of old age
Generations in print: Revision in American literature 1850--1900
The corporate form: Capital, literature, architecture
Refugee utopias: (Re)theorizing refugeeism through cultural production of the Hmong diaspora
How should poetry look? The printer's measure and poet's line
Uncovering and recovering the popular romance novel
"Competition for the virgin soil of Kansas": Gendered and sexualized discourse about the Kansas crisis in northern popular print and political culture, 1854--1860
Capital cynicism: Literature and production in the post-Fordist era
A middle-of-the-road peace movement: Ethos and the practical pacifists
From Hawthorne to history: The mythologizing of John Endecott
Queer texts and the Cold War: How nationalism and domesticity shaped U.S. lesbian and gay writing, 1945--1960
The rise of creative writing and the new value of creativity
The fantasy of Asian America: Identity, ideology, and desire
Conceiving difference through alternative reading strategies: Deleuze, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida and Post-Civil Rights US minority texts
From water margins to borderlands: Boundaries and the fantastic in fantasy, Native American, and Asian American literatures
Poe mo: Modernism and the politics of gothic adaptation
Experimentation, identification, ornamentation: Avant-garde women artists and modernism's exceptional objects
Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): Maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
The ghost and the corpse: Figuring the mind/brain complex at the turn of the twentieth century
Window Panes & Mirror Frames: Social Constructions of American Girlhood in Children's Pages and Periodicals (1865--1952)
The Urgency of Community: The Suturing of Poetic Ideology During the Early Years of the Loft and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Spectral Materialisms: Colonial Complexes and the Insurgent Acts of Chicana/o Cultural Production
Medical Screening: Medical Imag[in]ing, the Body, and the Self
Texts as Tactics: How People Practice Politics with Books
Autobiography and the Making of Modernist Multiculturalism
"In a Shattered Language": A Feminist Poetics of Trauma
Frayed Homespun: Colonial clothing and literary revision in Melville, Sedgwick, and Hawthorne
Re-configuring paternal legacies through ritualistic art: Daughters and fathers in contemporary fiction by women of African descent
Modern American pilgrims: Dwelling and religious travel in the lives and works of Herman Melville and T.S. Eliot
The End, or Life in the Nuclear Age: Aesthetic Form and Modes of Subjectivity
A Desire Called America: Biopolitics and Utopian Forms of Life in American Literature