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- "Not even past" : race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten
- 'Bitter with the past but sweet with the dream : communism in the African American imaginary : representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952
- A concise companion to American fiction, 1900-1950
- A country in the mind : Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, history, and the American land
- A cultural history of the American novel : Henry James to William Faulkner
- A disturbing and alien memory : southern novelists writing history
- A familiar strangeness : American fiction and the language of photography, 1839-1945
- A feminist ethic of risk
- A man's game : masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism
- A new heartland : women, modernity, and the agrarian ideal in America
- A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912
- Aberrations in black : toward a queer of color critique
- African American servitude and historical imaginings : retrospective fiction and representation
- Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels
- After the fall : the Demeter-Persephone myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow
- After utopia : the rise of critical space in twentieth-century American fiction
- Afterlives of modernism : liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique
- Against the unspeakable : complicity, the Holocaust, and slavery in America
- Aggravating the conscience : Jewish-American literary mothers in the Promised Land
- Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston : the common bond
- America noir : underground writers and filmmakers of the postwar era
- America the middlebrow : women's novels, progressivism, and middlebrow authorship between the wars
- American dream, American nightmare : fiction since 1960
- American fiction in the Cold War
- American fiction of the 1990s : reflections of history and culture
- American fiction since 1940
- American fictions, 1940-1980 : a comprehensive history and critical evaluation
- American sweethearts : teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture
- American talmud : the cultural work of Jewish American fiction
- An across walls overview-study of novels and short stories by eighteen 20th century English and American authors
- Archival reflections : postmodern fiction of the Americas (self-reflexivity, historical revisionism, utopia)
- Artificial color : modern food and racial fictions
- Ashes taken for fire : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity
- At home in the city : urban domesticity in American literature and culture, 1850-1930
- At home, at war : domesticity and World War I in American literature
- Axis, axes to grind : political slants in American World War II novels, 1945-1975
- Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame : where "Black" meets "queer"
- Beyond the Gibson Girl : reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915
- Beyond the waste land: : a study of the American novel in the nineteen-sixties
- Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
- Black and white strangers : race and American literary realism
- Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban
- Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery
- Black women novelists and the nationalist aesthetic
- Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture
- Bodies in a broken world : women novelists of color and the politics of medicine
- Books for pleasure: : popular fiction, 1914-1945
- Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture
- Brainwashing : the fictions of mind control : a study of novels and films since World War II
- Bridging the Americas : the literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
- Burning down the house : essays on fiction
- Cauldron of changes : feminist spirituality in fantastic fiction
- Changing the story : feminist fiction and the tradition
- City codes : reading the modern urban novel
- Clear-cutting Eden : ecology and the pastoral in Southern literature
- Colonialism and the emergence of science fiction
- Coming of age in contemporary American fiction
- Contemporary American crime fiction
- Contemporary American women writers : narrative strategies
- Contemporary feminist historical crime fiction
- Contemporary fiction and the uses of theory : the novel from structuralism to postmodernism
- Contemporary masculinities in fiction, film and television
- Contemporary women novelists : a collection of critical essays
- Cormac McCarthy : American canticles
- Critical identities in contemporary Anglophone diasporic literature
- Crossing b(l)ack : mixed-race identity in modern American fiction and culture
- Darkly perfect world : colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir
- Daughters of self-creation : the contemporary Chicana novel
- Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s
- Deep surfaces : mass culture & history in postmodern American fiction
- Delicate pursuit : discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton
- Determined fictions : American literary naturalism
- Dirt and desire : reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990
- Dissident postmodernists : Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon
- Ecospatiality : a place-based approach to American literature
- Elusive childhood : impossible representations in modern fiction
- Embroidering the Scarlet A : unwed mothers and illegitimate children in American fiction and film
- Empire of conspiracy : the culture of paranoia in postwar America
- Engendering romance : women writers and the Hawthorne tradition, 1850-1990
- Ethnic passages : literary immigrants in twentieth-century America
- Evolution and "the sex problem" : American narratives during the eclipse of Darwinism
- Exile and the narrative imagination
- Exploring teachers in fiction and film : saviors, scapegoats and schoolmarms
- Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature
- Failed frontiersmen : White men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance
- Female pastoral : women writers re-visioning the American South
- Femicidal fears : narratives of the female gothic experience
- Feminism and its fictions : the consciousness-raising novel and the women's liberation movement
- Feminism, Bakhtin, and the dialogic
- Feminist utopian novels of the 1970s : Joanna Russ & Dorothy Bryant
- Feminist utopias
- Fictional feminism : how American bestsellers affect the movement for women's equality
- Fictions Inc. : the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture
- Figuring the woman author in contemporary fiction
- Filthy fictions : Asian American literature by women
- Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties
- Flights from realism : themes and strategies in postmodernist British and American fiction
- Fragmented urban images : the American city in modern fiction from Stephen Crane to Thomas Pynchon
- Framing history : the Rosenberg story and the Cold War
- Freak shows and the modern American imagination : constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
- Full metal apache : transactions between cyberpunk Japan and avant-pop America
- Future females, the next generation : new voices and velocities in feminist science fiction criticism
- Galactic suburbia : recovering women's science fiction
- Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism
- Goodbye Christ? : Christianity, masculinity, and the new Negro renaissance
- Gross anatomies : fictions of the physical in American literature
- Grotesque relations : modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state
- Guilty pleasures : popular novels and American audiences in the long nineteenth century
- Gumshoe America : hard-boiled crime fiction and the rise and fall of New Deal liberalism
- Hard-boiled : working-class readers and pulp magazines
- Hard-boiled masculinities
- Hardboiled America : the lurid years of paperbacks
- Hardboiled American detective fiction : the novels of Ross Macdonald, Mickey Spillane & Robert B. Parker
- Hardboiled mystery writers : Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald : a literary reference
- Haunted in the New World : Jewish American culture from Cahan to The Goldbergs
- Healing narratives : women writers curing cultural dis-ease
- How to read African American literature : post-Civil Rights fiction and the task of interpretation
- Humor in contemporary junior literature
- Hybrid fictions : American literature and Generation X
- Ideology and Jewish identity in Israeli and American literature
- Imagining Los Angeles : a city in fiction
- Impossible to say : representing religious mystery in fiction by Malamud, Percy, Ozick, and O'Connor
- In a dark time : the apocalyptic temper in the American novel of the nuclear age
- In the African-American grain : the pursuit of voice in twentieth-century Black fiction
- Insatiable appetites : twentieth-century American women's bestsellers
- Insistence of the material : literature in the age of biopolitics
- Inspiriting influences : tradition, revision, and Afro-American women's novels
- Intimate violence : reading rape and torture in twentieth-century fiction
- Intrigue : espionage and culture
- Invisible darkness : Jean Toomer & Nella Larsen
- Invisible suburbs : recovering protest fiction in the 1950s United States
- Jewish-American fiction, 1917-1987
- Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Charolotte Perkins Gilman : studies in short fiction
- Late modernism : politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars
- Late postmodernism : American fiction at the millennium
- Latent destinies : cultural paranoia and contemporary U.S. narrative
- Leopards in the temple : the transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970
- Lesbian gothic : transgressive fictions
- Like a brother, like a lover : male homosexuality in the American novel and theater from Herman Melville to James Baldwin
- Literary disruptions : the making of a post-contemporary American fiction
- Literary subversions : new American fiction and the practice of criticism
- Literature, amusement, and technology in the Great Depression
- Lost gay novels : a reference guide to fifty works from the first half of the twentieth century
- Love American style : divorce and the American novel, 1881-1976
- Lovers and beloveds : sexual otherness in Southern fiction, 1936-1961
- Lyrical strategies : the poetics of the twentieth-century American novel
- Male domination/female degradation : women's sexuality in bestselling romance fiction from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
- Masculinity and the paradox of violence in American fiction, 1950-1975
- Mass-market fiction and the crisis of American liberalism, 1972-2017
- Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements
- Minimalism and the short story--Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, and Mary Robison
- Misfit modernism : queer forms of double exile in the twentieth-century novel
- Models for the multitudes : social values in the american popular novel, 1850-1920
- Modern American short story sequences : composite fictions and fictive communities
- Modern Arab American fiction : a reader's guide
- Modern fiction and the art of subversion
- Modernity and progress : Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell
- Mother without child : contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood
- Murder by the book? : feminism and the crime novel
- Murdering masculinities : fantasies of gender and violence in the American crime novel
- Muse in the machine : American fiction and mass publicity
- Muting white noise : Native American and European American novel traditions
- Mystery in children's literature : from the rational to the supernatural
- Mysticism and the mid-century novel
- Myth and fairy tale in contemporary women's fiction
- Mythmaking and metaphor in black women's fiction
- Narrating class in American fiction
- Narrativas hÃbridas : parodia y posmodernismo en la ficción contemporánea de las Américas
- Necessary American fictions : popular literature of the 1950s
- New Latina narrative : the feminine space of postmodern ethnicity
- New visions of community in contemporary American fiction : Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison
- Nice and noir : contemporary American crime fiction
- No accident, comrade : chance and design in Cold War American narratives
- Not in sisterhood : Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the politics of female authorship
- Orphan narratives : the postplantation literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse
- Other South : Faulkner, coloniality, and the Mariátegui tradition
- Panic! : markets, crises, & crowds in American fiction
- Paradigms of paranoia : the culture of conspiracy in contemporary American fiction
- Paradoxical resolutions : American fiction since James Joyce
- Partners in wonder : women and the birth of science fiction, 1926-1965
- Paternalism incorporated : fables of American fatherhood, 1865-1940
- Paths of resistance : the art and craft of the political novel
- Place and vision : the function of landscape in Native American fiction
- Place in American fiction : excursions and explorations
- Plain and ugly Janes : the rise of the ugly woman in contemporary American fiction
- Politics, desire, and the Hollywood novel
- Portraits of the new Negro woman : visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance
- Pragmatist realism : the cognitive paradigm in American realist texts
- Pretend we're dead : capitalist monsters in American pop culture
- Profane & sacred : Latino/a American writers reveal the interplay of the secular and the religious
- Race and White identity in southern fiction : from Faulkner to Morrison
- Race mixing : Southern fiction since the Sixties
- Race, music, and national identity : images of jazz in American fiction, 1920-1960
- Radical representations : politics and form in U.S. proletarian fiction, 1929-1941
- Re-forming the past : history, the fantastic, and the postmodern slave narrative
- Readings of trauma, madness, and the body
- Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture
- Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West
- Reforming fictions : Native, African, and Jewish American women's literature and journalism in the progressive era
- Reload : rethinking women + cyberculture
- Remembering the past in contemporary African American fiction
- Representations of American slavery in post-civil rights fiction and film : how literature shapes politics
- Resisting regionalism : gender and naturalism in American fiction, 1885-1915
- Rewriting the women of Camelot : Arthurian popular fiction and feminism
- Road-book America : contemporary culture and the new picaresque
- Rocket states : atomic weaponry and the cultural imagination
- Romance and the erotics of property : mass-market fiction for women
- Romantic revisions in novels from the Americas
- Scandalous fictions : the twentieth-century novel in the public sphere
- Selling the Wild West : popular western fiction, 1860 to 1960
- Sensational modernism : experimental fiction and photography in thirties America
- Shape-shifting : images of Native Americans in recent popular fiction
- Show and tell : identity as performance in U.S. Latina/o fiction
- Silko, Morrison, and Roth : studies in survival
- Since Flannery O'Connor : essays on the contemporary American short story
- Site reading : fiction, art, social form
- Slumming in New York : from the waterfront to mythic Harlem
- Strategies of reticence : silence and meaning in the works of Jane Austen, Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Joan Didion
- Struggles over the word : race and religion in O'Connor, Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright
- Suburban ambush : downtown writing and the fiction of insurgency
- SuburbiaNation : reading suburban landscape in twentieth-century American fiction and film
- Telling the truth : the theory and practice of documentary fiction
- Testing the faith : the new Catholic fiction in America
- Textual contraception : birth control and modern American fiction
- The American dream and the popular novel
- The American novel now : reading contemporary American fiction since 1980
- The American private eye : the image in fiction
- The American short story : continuity and change, 1940-1975
- The Cambridge companion to American fiction after 1945
- The Cambridge companion to the modernist novel
- The Cambridge introduction to contemporary American fiction
- The National Book Awards and the American Book Awards : the treatment of women in prize-winning American fiction, 1962-1983
- The Wister trace : assaying classic western fiction
- The Wister trace : classic novels of the American frontier
- The adman in the parlor : magazines and the gendering of consumer culture, 1880s to 1910s
- The age of the crisis of man : thought and fiction in America, 1933-1973
- The classical tradition in modern American fiction
- The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches
- The culture of soft work : labor, gender, and race in postmodern American narrative
- The dream of the great American novel
- The exploded form : the modernist novel in America
- The faith of our feminists; : a study in the novels of Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Willa Cather
- The feeling of being : sensibility in postwar American fiction
- The feminist bestseller : from Sex and the single girl to Sex and the city
- The forsaken son : child murder and atonement in modern American fiction
- The freedom to remember : narrative, slavery, and gender in contemporary Black women's fiction
- The gamefulness of American postmodernism : John Barth & Louise Erdrich
- The great god baseball : religion in modern baseball fiction
- The great war of words : British, American, and Canadian propaganda and fiction, 1914-1933
- The green breast of the new world : landscape, gender, and American fiction
- The gun and the pen : Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the fiction of mobilization
- The indestructible woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck
- The labors of modernism : domesticity, servants, and authorship in modernist fiction
- The last of the provincials : the American novel, 1915-1925: H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The modern novel : a short introduction
- The mythopoeic reality : the postwar American nonfiction novel
- The naked city : urban crime fiction in the USA
- The naturalistic inner-city novel in America : encounters with the fat man
- The newspaper in the American novel, 1900-1969
- The novel and the American left : critical essays on depression-era fiction
- The novel and the obscene : sexual subjects in American modernism
- The novels of the Harlem renaissance : twelve black writers, 1923-1933
- The pictorial in modernist fiction from Stephen Crane to Ernest Hemingway
- The politics of color in the fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen
- The politics of literary expression : a study of major Black writers
- The post-utopian imagination : American culture in the long 1950s
- The postmodern short story : forms and issues
- The radical novel in the United States, 1900-1954: some interrelations of literature and society
- The rhetorical short story : best American short stories on war and the military, 1915-2006
- The romance revolution : erotic novels for women and the quest for a new sexual identity
- The safe sea of women : lesbian fiction, 1969-1989
- The self wired : technology and subjectivity in contemporary narrative
- The self-conscious novel : artifice in fiction from Joyce to Pynchon
- The social construction of American realism
- The soft machine : cybernetic fiction
- The span of mainstream and science fiction : a critical study of a new literary genre
- The twilight of the middle class : post-World War II American fiction and white-collar work
- The vanishing hero; : studies in novelists of the twenties
- The wayward preacher in the literature of African American women
- The white logic : alcoholism and gender in American modernist fiction
- The withered branch; : six studies in the modern novel
- To hell and back : race and betrayal in the southern novel
- Traditions, voices, and dreams : the American novel since the 1960s
- Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America
- Twentieth-century American literary naturalism : an interpretation
- Twentieth-century crime fiction
- Twisted from the ordinary : essays on American literary naturalism
- Uncontained : urban fiction in postwar America
- Unflinching gaze : Morrison and Faulkner re-envisioned
- Violent adventure : contemporary fiction by American men
- Violent affect : literature, cinema, and critique after representation
- Vonnegut and Hemingway : writers at war
- War on the twenties : the effects of World War I on the American public and the literary imagination of the 1920s
- We boys together : teenagers in love before girl-craziness
- We've been here before : women in creation myths and contemporary literature of the Native American southwest
- Westerns : making the man in fiction and film
- What America read : taste, class, and the novel, 1920-1960
- What else but love? : the ordeal of race in Faulkner and Morrison
- Where the new world is : literature about the U.S. South at global scales
- White diaspora : the suburb and the twentieth-century American novel
- Why horror seduces
- Wilderness city : the post World War II American novel from Algren to Wideman
- William Faulkner's legacy : "what shadow, what stain, what mark"
- Women without men : female bonding and the American novel of the 1980s
- Women writers of the contemporary South
- Worrying the line : black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition
- Writers of conviction : the personal politics of Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst
- Writing realism : Howells, James, and Norris in the mass market
- Writing the meal : dinner in the fiction of early twentieth-century women writers
- Writing war : fiction, gender, and memory
- Yesterday's faces : a study of series characters in the early pulp magazines
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