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The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 3
1886–1888
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible.
Letters · British Literature · Biography & Autobiography | General · Literature
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 8
1900–1902
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible.
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 4
1889–1891
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
Gissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 1
1863–1880
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible.
Letters · British Literature · Biography & Autobiography | General · Literature
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 5
1892-1895
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
Gissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 6
1895-1897
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
Gissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.
Letters · British Literature · Biography & Autobiography | General · Literature
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 2
1881–1885
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
For many years, the only Gissing letters available to the public were those in the modest selection of letters to his family published in 1927. In the following years a good number were published separately in such places as journals, memoirs, and sales catalogues, but like the single and small groups of unpublished letters scattered in libraries around the world, they remained in practical terms inaccessible.
Letters · British Literature · Biography & Autobiography | General · Literature
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 7
1897–1899
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
Gissing’s career, which spanned the period of about 1877 to his death in 1903, was characterized by prodigious output (almost a novel a year in the early days), modest recognition, and modest income. He wrote of poverty, socialism, class differences, social reform, and later on, about the problems of women and industrialization.
Letters · British Literature · Biography & Autobiography | General · Literature
Reimagining Realism
A New Anthology of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Short Fiction
Edited by Charles A. Johanningsmeier and Jessica E. McCarthy
This fresh, diverse anthology of American short fiction challenges readers to interrogate commonly held ideas about the genres of realism and naturalism. Little-known writers and crucial voices from underrepresented groups join stalwarts such as Stephen Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mark Twain to offer a more inclusive perspective on American history and culture from the Civil War through World War I.
American Literature · Short Stories (multiple authors) · United States · Literature · Literary Criticism, US
A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth Strout
By Katherine Montwieler
In this first study of novelist Elizabeth Strout’s best-selling works, Katherine Montwieler reveals how Strout’s voice, characters, and themes generate a powerful empathic response among mainstream readers—mostly women—that elite scholars undervalue at their own peril. This accessible companion also includes an exclusive interview with Strout.
Literary Criticism, US · Literary Criticism | Modern | 21st Century · Literary Criticism | Feminist · Literature
The Collected Letters of George Gissing Volume 9
1902–1903
By George Gissing
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Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen, Arthur C. Young, and Pierre Coustillas
This ninth volume concludes the widely-acclaimed edition of The Collected Letters of George Gissing, which not only renders obsolete all other collections and selections of his letters, but also contains a considerable quantity of hitherto unpublished or inaccessible materials.
Rewriting Modernity
Studies in Black South African Literary History
By David Attwell
Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History connects the black literary archive in South Africa to international postcolonial studies via the theory of transculturation, a position adapted from the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz.
Literary Criticism, Africa · South Africa · Literature · African Studies
Allegiance
Stories
By Gurney Norman
Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories—a rich personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream of consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life.
Short Stories (single author) · Appalachia · Fiction · Literature
The Freethinker’s Daughter
A Novel
By Jenny O'Neill
Set in 1833 Lexington, Kentucky, this historical coming-of-age novel for young readers features resonant themes and topics—slavery, abolition, racism, prejudice, class consciousness, a devastating epidemic, and deep personal loss—as its thirteen-year-old white female narrator fights injustice and uncertainty with integrity, love, and hope.
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age · Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | 19th Century · Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism · Kentucky · Literature · Young Readers
The Freethinker’s Daughter
A Novel
By Jenny O'Neill
Set in 1833 Lexington, Kentucky, this historical coming-of-age novel for young readers features resonant themes and topics—slavery, abolition, racism, prejudice, class consciousness, a devastating epidemic, and deep personal loss—as its thirteen-year-old white female narrator fights injustice and uncertainty with integrity, love, and hope.
Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Adolescence & Coming of Age · Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | 19th Century · Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Prejudice & Racism · Kentucky · Literature · Young Readers
Terra Incognita
Poems
By Sara Henning
This poignant collection of masterful elegies centers on the revelatory ways in which the speaker reconciles love, loss, and grief’s legacy. Following her mother’s battle with colon cancer and her own crisis of meaning, Henning culminates the collection with her rediscovery of joy in life’s small moments.
Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family · Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss · Women Poets · Literature · Creative Writing | Poetry
Secure the Shadow
A Novel
By Michael Henson
Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from multiple perspectives, Henson’s latest novel about addiction and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and sometimes tragic effects of the 1990s drug crisis.
Bread of the Moment
Poems
By David Sanders
David Sanders’s second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life’s quiet moments as well as in those jolting times when our fragility is most apparent.
Bread of the Moment
Poems
By David Sanders
David Sanders’s second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life’s quiet moments as well as in those jolting times when our fragility is most apparent.
Secure the Shadow
A Novel
By Michael Henson
Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from multiple perspectives, Henson’s latest novel about addiction and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and sometimes tragic effects of the 1990s drug crisis.
Fine Boys
A Novel
By Eghosa Imasuen
Set in Nigeria during the pro-democracy movement and told from the perspective of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraternities during the mid-1990s.
Fiction | World Literature | Africa | Nigeria · Literary Fiction · Nigeria · Literature · African Studies · Fiction
Allegiance
Stories
By Gurney Norman
Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories—a rich personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream of consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life.
Short Stories (single author) · Appalachia · Fiction · Literature
Allegiance
Stories
By Gurney Norman
Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories—a rich personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream of consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life.
Short Stories (single author) · Appalachia · Fiction · Literature
English Lit
Poems
By Bernard Clay
Affrilachian Poet Bernard Clay narrates his West-Side Louisville upbringing and the complexities of Black Appalachian identity in this debut collection of poems compiled from more than twenty years of work.
Poetry | American | African American · Appalachian Studies · Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places · Kentucky · Appalachia · Poetry · Literature
House of Incest
By Anaïs Nin
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Introduction by Allison Pease
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Foreword by Gunther Stuhlmann
Originally published in 1936, House of Incest is Anaïs Nin’s first work of fiction. Based on Nin’s dreams, the novel is a surrealistic look within the narrator’s subconscious as she attempts to distance herself from a series of all-consuming and often taboo desires.
Fiction | Psychological · American Literature · Literature · Anaïs Nin