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  • av John Blair
    287

    Ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought. In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any of us being who we are, what we are, where we are forces us to consider the possibilities of belief and meaning.

  • - Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
    av Melissa L. Sevigny
    431

    In a lyrical mix of natural science, history, and memoir, Melissa L. Sevigny ponders what it means to make a home in the American Southwest at a time when its most essential resource, water, is overexploited and undervalued. She writes a new map for the future of the American Southwest, a vision that accepts the desert's limits in exchange for an intimate relationship with the natural world.

  • - With a Complete Commentary
    av Walt Whitman
    347

  • - Rethinking American Literature
     
    741

    Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Postmodern/Postwar - and After aims to be a field-defining book - a sourcebook for the new and emerging critical terrain - that explores the postmodern/postwar period and what comes after.

  • - The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America
    av Sara L. Crosby
    741

    The literary gadfly John Neal called on his fellow Jacksonian writers to defy British critical standards, saying, "Let us have poison." Poisonous Muse investigates how they answered, how they deployed the figure of the female poisoner to theorize popular authorship, to validate or undermine it, and to fight over its limits, particularly its political, gendered, and racial boundaries.

  • av Lindsey Michael Banco
    327

    J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, the single most recognizable face of the atomic bomb, was and still is a conflicted, controversial figure. The Meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer examines how he has been represented over the past seven decades in biographies, histories, fiction, comics, photographs, film, TV, documentaries, theatre, and museums.

  • av Carolyn E. Sachs
    461

    In this book, farm women in the northeastern United States describe how they got into farming and became successful entrepreneurs despite the barriers they encountered in agricultural institutions, farming communities, and even their own families. Their strategies for obtaining land and labour and developing successful businesses offer models for other aspiring farmers.

  • av Robert Henke
    627

    Whereas previous studies of poverty and early modern theatre have concentrated on England and the criminal rogue,Poverty and Charity in Early Modern Theatre and Performance takes a transnational approach, which reveals a greater range of attitudes and charitable practices regarding the poor than state poor laws and rogue books suggest.

  • - The History of the Iowa State Fair
    av Chris Rasmussen
    441

  • av Aaron McCollough
    287

    A collection of richly strange sequence of poems in which forces of nature, mind, spirit, and language partake of each other in vibrant and shifting ways. Rank seeks to recover sources of imaginative meaning from the unsettled remnants of lyric tradition, seeking out possibilities for belief and sustenance in the echoes of lapsed poetic speech.

  • - From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1
    av Chris Gavaler
    307

    Superheroes have a sprawling, action packed history that predates Superman by decades and even centuries. On the Origin of Superheroes is a quirky, personal tour of the mythology, literature, philosophy, history, and grand swirl of ideas that have permeated western culture in the centuries leading up to the first appearance of superheroes (as we know them today) in 1938.

  • - Watch 'Em Run
    av Brian Duffy
    341

    Brian Duffy has been poking fun at the Iowa caucuses for just about as long as they've been a media circus, since the 1970s. Now, the longtime editorial cartoonist has gathered a selection of his best images lampooning the politicians on their quadrennial stampedes through Iowa's fields and towns.

  • av Charles Haverty
    261

  • - Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry
    av Ann Keniston
    577

    Argues that the poetics of belatedness, along with the way it is bound to questions of poetic making, is a central, if critically neglected, force in postwar American poetry. Ann Keniston draws on and critically assesses trauma theory and psychoanalysis, as well as earlier discussions of witness, elegy, lyric trope and figure, postmodernism, allusion, and performance.

  • - Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans
    av Lyell D. Henry Jr
    397

    The first book on the Jefferson highway, this covers its origin, history, and significance, as well as its eventual fading from most memories following the replacement of names by numbers on long-distance highways after 1926. In this study Lyell D. Henry Jr. contributes to the growing literature on the earliest days of road-building and long-distance motoring in the United States.

  • - A Daughter's Last Goodbye
    av Ann Putnam
    287

    Presents the story of Ann Putnam's mother and father and her father's identical twin, and how they lived together with their courage and their stumblings, as they made their way into old age and then into death. It's the story of the journey from one twin's death to the other, of what happened along the way, of what it means to lose the other who is also oneself.

  • av Edmund Wilson
    321

    Originally published in 1929, this is the first of three novels by Edmund Wilson, written whilst balancing his ambitions as a novelist against a career in literary criticism. The two tie together here in a depiction of a young man struggling to find his American ideal in a young chorus girl.

  • - Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre
    av Dorothy Chansky
    627

  • - Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom
    av Janet G. Casey
    371

    Popular American fiction has now secured a routine position in the higher education classroom despite its historic status as culturally suspect. This newfound respect and inclusion have almost certainly changed the pedagogical landscape, and Teaching Tainted Lit explores that altered terrain.

  • av Barbara J. Scot
    301

    Barbara Scot's memoir begins with a trunk full of memories and her mother's cryptic letters about a marriage unravelling. The author searches for the truth, which takes her back to a scene of tragedy - to the farm her family lost and the close-knit secretive community she left behind.

  • - An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia
    av Tim Bascom
    317

  • - A Poetic Anatomy
    av Arianne Zwartjes
    271

    In a series of linked lyric essays, Detailing Trauma explores in vivid, sometimes graphic detail the many types of wounds from which the human body and spirit may suffer-and heal. Mapping the diseases and injuries that can afflict the body, the author asks how we can continue to live and love in the face of the great potential for suffering and loss.

  • av Paul L. Errington
    397

    Offers a celebration of a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Paul L. Errington melds his expertise in wildlife biology with his love for natural beauty to create a visionary and often moving reexamination of humanity's relationship with these magnificent and frequently maligned animals.

  • - A Guide to the Butterflies of the Upper Midwest
    av Steve Hendrix
    231

    A guide to 65 species of butterflies common to the American Midwest. Using digital photographs instead of drawings, the guide shows sexual differences between males and females, seasonal forms, and both the upper- and undersides of wings when these are critical for proper identification.

  • - An Anthology of World Farm Poems
    av Catherine Webster
    321

  • - Figuring Voice in Modern Narrative
    av Patrick O'Donnell
    487

  • - The Importance of Being Refined in the 1880s
     
    371

    This work can be read as a testament to the growing division between social classes and, at the same time, a reflection of the middle classes overwhelming desire to cross social lines through the graces of fine etiquette.

  • - Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age
    av Paul Booth
    641

  • - How Iowa Led Americans to Marriage Equality
    av Tom Witosky
    276

  • - A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}
    av Jessica Pressman
    577

    Combines different interpretive methods of digital literature and poetics in order to think through how critical reading is changing - and, indeed, must change - to keep up with the emergence of digital poetics and practices. It weaves together radically different methodological approaches into a collaborative interpretation of a single work of digital literature.

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