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Over the River and Through the Wood
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children's Poetry

edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Angela Sorby

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Thrill of the Chaste
The Allure of Amish Romance Novels

Valerie Weaver-Zercher

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Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic
Literature, Modernity, and Diaspora

edited by Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne

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Bloody Murder
The Homicide Tradition in Children's Literature

Michelle Ann Abate

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Imaginary Citizens
Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640–1868

Courtney Weikle-Mills

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The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht
edited with an introduction by Jonathan F. S. Post

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Writing Back
American Expatriates' Narratives of Return

Susan Winnett

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The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin

Douglas Anderson

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Epic in American Culture
Settlement to Reconstruction

Christopher N. Phillips

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Disciplining Girls
Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story

Joe Sutliff Sanders

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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865

James L. Machor

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The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception
Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor

William V. Spanos

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Faulkner and His Critics

edited by John N. Duvall

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Secret Histories
Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature

David Wyatt

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Writing for Immortality
Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America

Anne E. Boyd

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Wielding the Pen
Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century

edited by Anne E. Boyd

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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them
Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

John T. Irwin

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The Hidden Adult
Defining Children's Literature

Perry Nodelman

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Securing the Commonwealth
Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America

Jennifer J. Baker

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Transatlantic Literary Studies
A Reader

edited by Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor

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