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- "High-topped shoes" and other signifiers of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in selected fiction by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
- "I have found my voice" : the Italian-American woman writer
- "Not even past" : race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten
- "Twentieth-century Americanism" : identity and ideology in Depression-era leftist fiction
- "You factory folks who sing this rhyme will surely understand" : culture, ideology, and action in the Gastonia novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Dargan
- 10 women of mystery
- 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction : the Misplaced Heritage
- 20th century fiction
- 99 novels : the best in English since 1939 : a personal choice
- A body of individuals : the paradox of community in contemporary fiction
- 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 dangerous crossing ; : French literary existentialism and the modern American novel
- A disturbing and alien memory : southern novelists writing history
- A do-it-yourself dystopia : the Americanization of big brother
- A familiar strangeness : American fiction and the language of photography, 1839-1945
- A familiar strangeness : American fiction and the language of photography, 1839-1945
- A feminist ethic of risk
- A guide to twentieth-century women novelists
- A house of words : Jewish writing, identity and memory
- A house of words : Jewish writing, identity and memory
- A new heartland : women, modernity, and the agrarian ideal in America
- A novel marketplace : mass culture, the book trade, and postwar American fiction
- A novel marketplace : mass culture, the book trade, and postwar American fiction
- A passion for consumption : the gothic novel in America
- A question of character : scientific racism and the genres of American fiction, 1892-1912
- A requiem for the renascence : the state of fiction in the modern south
- A sounding of storytellers : new and revised essays on contemporary writers for children
- A southern weave of women : fiction of the contemporary South
- A study of the modern novel, British and American, since 1900
- A web of words : the great dialogue of Southern literature
- A world made safe : values in American best sellers, 1895-1920
- Abandoning the Black Hero : Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel
- Abandoning the Black hero : sympathy and privacy in the postwar African American White-life novel
- Abortion, choice, and contemporary fiction : the armageddon of the maternal instinct
- Accident society : fiction, collectivity, and the production of chance
- Acquainted with the night : the image of journalists in American fiction, 1890-1930
- Adolescence, America, and postwar fiction : developing figures
- Advancing sisterhood? : interracial friendships in contemporary southern fiction
- Adventures of the spirit : the older woman in the works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and other contemporary women writers
- African American satire : the sacredly profane novel
- African American servitude and historical imaginings : retrospective fiction and representation
- African American women writers' historical fiction
- African settings in contemporary American novels
- Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels
- Afro-American fiction writers after 1955
- After Eden : the secularization of American space in the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser
- After Southern modernism : fiction of the contemporary South
- After Southern modernism : fiction of the contemporary South
- After alienation ; : American novels in mid-century
- After the end of history : American fiction in the 1990s
- After the fall : the Demeter-Persephone myth in Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow / c Josephine Donovan
- After the genteel tradition ; : American writers since 1910
- After the lost generation ; : a critical study of the writers of two wars
- After the vows were spoken : marriage in American literary realism
- After utopia : the rise of critical space in twentieth-century American fiction
- Afterlives of modernism : liberalism, transnationalism, and political critique
- Afterwords ; : novelists on their novels
- Against the unspeakable : complicity, the Holocaust, and slavery in America
- Aggressive fictions : reading the contemporary American novel
- Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston : the common bond
- Alien theory : the alien as archetype in the science fiction short story
- Allegories of violence : tracing the writing of war in late twentieth-century fiction
- Allegory and the modern southern novel
- Alternate worlds : a study of postmodern antirealistic American fiction
- Alternative paradigms of literary realism
- Alternative pleasures : postrealist fiction and the tradition
- America noir : underground writers and filmmakers of the postwar era
- American designs : the late novels of James and Faulkner
- American dream, American nightmare : fiction since 1960
- American energies : essays on fiction
- American exorcist : critical essays on William Peter Blatty
- American fiction : the technique of point of view
- American fiction in the Cold War
- American fiction in transition : observer-hero narrative, the 1990s, and postmodernism
- American fiction of the 1990s : reflections of history and culture
- American fiction since 1940
- American fiction, 1920-1940
- American fiction, 1920-1940 : John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Erskine Caldwell, James T. Farrell, John P. Marquand [and] John Steinbeck
- American fictions, 1940-1980 : a comprehensive history and critical evaluation
- American literary naturalism : a divided stream
- American literary naturalism and its twentieth-century transformations : Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo
- American literary realism, critical theory, and intellectual prestige, 1880-1995
- American literary regionalism in a global age
- American migrant fictions : space, narrative, identity
- American modern : essays in fiction and poetry
- American moderns : from rebellion to conformity
- American novelists of today
- American novelists since World War II
- American postmodernist fiction and the past
- American social fiction : James to Cozzens
- American sweethearts : teenage girls in twentieth-century popular culture
- American talmud : the cultural work of Jewish American fiction
- American utopia and social engineering in literature, social thought, and political history
- American writers for children since 1960, Fiction
- An analysis and evaluation of widely read junior novels with major Negro characters
- An armed America : its face in fiction; a history of the American military novel
- Animal stories : narrating across species lines
- Animal stories : narrating across species lines
- Anne, the white woman in contemporary African-American fiction : archetypes stereotypes, and characterizations
- Another generation : southern fiction since World War II
- Anti-Nazi modernism : the challenges of resistance in 1930s fiction
- Aperçus de littérature américaine
- Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction
- Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction
- Apocalyptic transformation : apocalypse and the postmodern imagination
- Archival reflections : postmodern fiction of the Americas (self-reflexivity, historical revisionism, utopia)
- Are girls necessary? : lesbian writing and modern histories
- Are girls necessary? : lesbian writing and modern histories
- Around quitting time : work and middle-class fantasy in American fiction
- As American as mom, baseball, and apple pie : constructing community in contemporary American horror fiction
- Ashes taken for fire : aesthetic modernism and the critique of identity
- 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
- Au-delà du soupçon : la nouvelle fiction américaine de 1960 à nos jours
- Authors out here : Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood
- Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame : where "Black" meets "queer"
- Beautiful chaos : chaos theory and metachaotics in recent American fiction
- Becoming and bonding : contemporary feminism and popular fiction by American women writers
- Best-sellers and their film adaptations in postwar America : From here to eternity, Sayonara, Giant, Auntie Mame, Peyton Place
- Between profits and primitivism : shaping white middle-class masculinity in the United States, 1880-1917
- Between the angle and the curve : mapping gender, race, space, and identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison
- Bewilderments of vision : hallucination and literature, 1880-1914
- Bewusstseinslagen des Erzählens und erzählte Wirklichkeiten. : Dargestellt an amerikanischen Romanen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
- Beyond Gatsby : how Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and writers of the 1920s shaped American culture
- Beyond borders : queer eros and ethos (ethics) in LGBTQ young adult literature
- Beyond innocence, or, The altersroman in modern fiction
- Beyond suspicion : new American fiction since 1960
- Beyond the Gibson Girl : reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915
- Beyond the Gibson Girl : reimagining the American new woman, 1895-1915
- Beyond the sound barrier : the jazz controversy in twentieth-century American fiction
- Beyond the waste land : a study of the American novel in the nineteen-sixties
- Black Atlantic speculative fictions : Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson
- Black Orpheus : music in African American fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
- Black and white strangers : race and American literary realism
- Black family (dys)function in novels by Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, & Fannie Hurst
- Black female vampires in African American women's novels, 1977-2011 : she bites back
- Black fiction : new studies in the Afro-American novel since 1945
- Black humor fiction of the sixties ; : a pluralistic definition of man and his world
- Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban
- Black metafiction : self-consciousness in African American literature
- Black mothers and the national body politic : the narrative positioning of the black maternal body from the Civil War period through the present
- Black professional women in recent American fiction
- Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery
- Black women novelists : the development of a tradition, 1892-1976
- Black women novelists and the nationalist aesthetic
- Black women writers and the American neo-slave narrative : femininity unfettered
- Blacks in Eden : the African-American novel's first century
- Blank fictions : consumerism, culture, and the contemporary American novel
- Blood read : the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture
- Bodies in a broken world : women novelists of color and the politics of medicine
- Bodies of tomorrow : technology, subjectivity, science fiction
- Body politics and the fictional double
- Books for pleasure : popular fiction, 1914-1945
- Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture
- Borʹba metodov i napravleniĭ v literaturakh sovremennogo Zapada
- Boundaries of the self : gender, culture, fiction
- Boys' books, boys' dreams, and the mystique of flight
- Brainwashing : the fictions of mind control : a study of novels and films since World War II
- Breaking the sequence : women's experimental fiction
- Breaking the sequence : women's experimental fiction
- Bridges to memory : postmemory in contemporary ethnic American women's fiction
- Bridging the Americas : the literature of Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, and Gayl Jones
- Bright book of life : American novelists and storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer
- British and American school stories, 1910-1960 : fiction, femininity, and friendship
- Burning down the house : essays on fiction
- California writers : Jack London, John Steinbeck, the tough guys
- Calls and responses : the American novel of slavery since Gone with the wind
- Celebration in postwar American fiction, 1945-1967
- Changing the story : feminist fiction and the tradition
- Character and satire in post-war fiction
- Chicano detective fiction : a critical study of five novelists
- Children of the raven and the whale : visions and revisions in American literature
- Children of the raven and the whale : visions and revisions in American literature
- Cinematic fictions : [the impact of the cinema on the American novel up to the second World War]
- City codes : reading the modern urban novel
- City of words : American fiction, 1950-1970
- Civil wars : American novelists and manners, 1880-1940
- Claiming the heritage : African-American women novelists and history
- Clear-cutting Eden : ecology and the pastoral in Southern literature
- Climate change and the contemporary novel
- College girls : a century in fiction
- Colonialism and the emergence of science fiction
- Comic sense : reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth
- Comic visions, female voices : contemporary women novelists and Southern humor
- Coming of age in contemporary American fiction
- Coming of age in contemporary American fiction
- Commitment as a theme in African American literature : a study of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison
- Community in twentieth-century fiction
- Competing voices : the American novel, 1865-1914
- Conflicting stories : American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century
- Conjuring moments in African American literature : women, spirit work, and other such hoodoo
- Conscientious sorcerers : the Black postmodernist fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and Samuel R. Delany
- Conspiracy nation : the politics of paranoia in postwar America
- Constructing a world : Shakespeare's England and the new historical fiction
- Consumerism and American girls' literature, 1860-1940
- Consuming silences : how we read authors who don't publish
- Contemporary African American fiction : new critical essays
- Contemporary African American fiction : the open journey
- Contemporary American crime fiction
- Contemporary American fiction
- Contemporary American fiction
- Contemporary American novelists
- Contemporary American novelists of the absurd
- Contemporary American novelists, 1900-1920
- Contemporary American women writers : narrative strategies
- Contemporary Jewish American writers and the multicultural dilemma : the return of the exiled
- Contemporary Mexican-American women novelists : toward a feminist identity
- Contemporary drift : genre, historicism, and the problem of the present
- Contemporary feminist historical crime fiction
- Contemporary fiction
- Contemporary fiction and Christianity
- 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
- Contemporary women's fiction : narrative practice and feminist theory
- Cormac McCarthy : American canticles
- Cosmic satire in the contemporary novel
- Cosmopolitan minds : literature, emotion, and the transnational imagination
- Cosmopolitan minds : literature, emotion, and the transnational imagination
- Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
- Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
- Counterfeit culture : truth and authenticity in the American prose epic since 1960
- Coyote kills John Wayne : postmodernism and contemporary fictions of the transcultural frontier
- Creating the modern American novel
- Crime culture : figuring criminality in fiction and film
- Crisis and covenant : the Holocaust in American Jewish fiction
- Critical identities in contemporary Anglophone diasporic literature
- Critiques and essays on modern fiction, 1920-1951, representing the achievement of modern American and British critics
- Crossing b(l)ack : mixed-race identity in modern American fiction and culture
- Crossing b(l)ack : mixed-race identity in modern American fiction and culture
- Crowd violence in American modernist fiction : lynchings, riots and the individual under assault
- Dandyism : forming fiction from modernism to the present
- Darkly perfect world : colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir
- Daughters and fathers in feminist novels
- Daughters of self-creation : the contemporary Chicana novel
- Daughters of the Great Depression : women, work, and fiction in the American 1930s
- Dead fathers : the logic of transference in modern narrative
- Deep surfaces : mass culture & history in postmodern American fiction
- Deleuze and American literature : affect and virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy
- Delicate pursuit : discretion in Henry James and Edith Wharton
- Demon or doll : images of the child in contemporary writing and culture
- Der amerikanische Weltkriegsroman, 1919-1939
- Designs of darkness in contemporary American fiction
- Desire and disillusionment : a guide to American fiction since 1890
- Desperate faith ; : a study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin, and Updike
- Determined fictions : American literary naturalism
- Die Romane der "flaming youth;" : ein Beitrag zur Interpretation des amerikanischen Romans von 1920 bis 1930
- Dimensions of monstrosity in contemporary narratives : theory, psychoanalysis, postmodernism
- Dirt and desire : reconstructing southern women's writing, 1930-1990
- Disciplining girls : understanding the origins of the classic orphan girl story
- Discovering modern horror fiction
- Dissenting fictions : identity and resistance in the contemporary American novel
- Dissident postmodernists : Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon
- Disturbing Indians : the archaeology of southern fiction
- Do metaphors dream of literal sleep? : a science-fictional theory of representation
- Do you feel it too? : the post-postmodern syndrome in American fiction at the turn of the millennium
- Down from the mountaintop : Black women's novels in the wake of the civil rights movement, 1966-1989
- Downwardly mobile : the changing fortunes of American realism
- Dramatizing time in twentieth-century fiction
- Dream a little : land and social justice in modern America
- Dreams of fiery stars : the transformations of Native American fiction
- Dreams of fiery stars : the transformations of native American fiction
- Driving women : fiction and automobile culture in twentieth-century America
- Driving women : fiction and automobile culture in twentieth-century America
- Elusive childhood : impossible representations in modern fiction
- Embattled home fronts : domestic politics and the American novel of World War I
- Embodying gender and age in speculative fiction : a biopsychosocial approach
- Embroidering the Scarlet A : unwed mothers and illegitimate children in American fiction and film
- Empire of conspiracy : the culture of paranoia in postwar America
- Enchanted Objects : Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction
- Enchanted objects : visual art in contemporary fiction
- Encountering choran community : literary modernism, visual culture, and political aesthetics in the interwar years
- Engendering romance : women writers and the Hawthorne tradition, 1850-1990
- Epic voices : inner and global impulse in the contemporary American and British novel
- Epiphany in the modern novel
- Epistolary responses : the letter in 20th-century American fiction and criticism
- Ethical diversions : the post-Holocaust narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman
- Ethnic passages : literary immigrants in twentieth-century America
- Evanescent moments : the epiphany in the modern novel
- Evolution and "the sex problem" : American narratives during the eclipse of Darwinism
- Evolution and eugenics in American literature and culture, 1880-1940 : essays on ideological conflict and complicity
- Exploring capitalist fiction : business through literature and film
- Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature
- Extreme states : the evolution of American transgressive fiction 1960-2000
- Fables of subversion : satire and the American novel, 1930-1980
- Fact & fiction : the new journalism and the nonfiction novel
- Failed frontiersmen : White men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance
- Failed frontiersmen : white men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance
- Faithful vision : treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction
- False documents : inter-American cultural history, literature, and the lost decade (1975-1992)
- False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism
- Fantasies of the new class : ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction
- Fantasy and reconciliation : contemporary formulas of women's romance fiction
- Fashion and fiction : self-transformation in twentieth-century American literature
- Faulkner and the native keystone : reading (beyond) the American South
- Felicitous space : the imaginative structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
- Female pastoral : women writers re-visioning the American South
- Femicidal fears : narratives of the female gothic experience
- Feminine fictions : revisiting the postmodern
- Feminism and its fictions : the consciousness-raising novel and the women's liberation movement
- Feminism and the postmodern impulse : post-World War II fiction
- Feminism, Bakhtin, and the dialogic
- Feminist alternatives : irony and fantasy in the contemporary novel by women
- Feminist popular fiction
- Feminist utopias
- Fiction across borders : imagining the lives of others in late twentieth-century novels
- Fiction in the quantum universe
- Fictional dialogue : speech and conversation in the modern and postmodern novel
- Fictional feminism : how American bestsellers affect the movement for women's equality
- Fictions Inc. : the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture
- Fictions of capital : the American novel from James to Mailer
- Fictions of fact and value : the erasure of logical positivism in American literature, 1945-1975
- Fictions of globalization
- Fifties Ethnicities : the Ethnic Novel and Mass Culture at Midcentury
- Fifties ethnicities : the ethnic novel and mass culture at midcentury
- Fighting words : polemics and social change in literary naturalism
- Figuring the woman author in contemporary fiction
- Filthy fictions : Asian American literature by women
- Fingering the jagged grain : tradition and form in recent Black fiction
- Fitzgerald, Hemingway and the Twenties
- Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties
- Five novelists of the progressive era
- Food and culture in contemporary American fiction
- For Rabbit, with love and squalor : an American read
- Forgotten frontiers : Dreiser and the land of the free
- Formula fiction? : an anatomy of American science fiction, 1930-1940
- Four postwar American novelists : Bellow, Mailer, Barth, and Pynchon
- Four spiritual crises in mid-century American fiction
- Framing history : the Rosenberg story and the Cold War
- Frankenstein's daughters : women writing science fiction
- Freak shows and the modern American imagination : constructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
- Freaks in late modernist American culture : Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
- Free women : ethics and aesthetics in twentieth-century women's fiction
- French and American noir : dark crossings
- Freud, religion, and the roaring twenties : a psychoanalytic theory of secularization in three novelists : Anderson, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald
- From Hopalong to Hud : thoughts on Western fiction
- From Richard Wright to Toni Morrison : ethics in modern & postmodern American narrative
- From Tobacco Road to Route 66 : the southern poor white in fiction
- From biography to history : the historical imagination and American fiction, 1880-1940
- From birdwomen to skygirls : American girls' aviation stories
- From modernism to postmodernism : concepts and strategies of postmodern American fiction
- From romance to realism : 50 years of growth and change in young adult literature
- From wiseguys to wise men : the gangster and Italian American masculinities
- Future females, the next generation : new voices and velocities in feminist science fiction criticism
- Galactic suburbia : recovering women's science fiction
- Garden plots : the politics and poetics of gardens
- Gay male fiction since Stonewall : ideology, conflict, and aesthetics
- Gender and genre : an introduction to women writers of formula westerns, 1900-1950
- Gender, race, and mourning in American modernism
- Geschichte der amerikanischen Erzählkunst 1900-1950
- Geschichtsverständnis und Textstruktur im sozialkritischen amerikanischen Roman der dreissiger Jahre : John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, Josephine Herbst : eine literaturwissenschaftlich-linguistische Studie
- Gestures of healing : anxiety & the modern novel
- Ghetto images in twentieth-century American literature : writing apartheid