Perren, Alisa and Steirer, Gregory

The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men , Spider-Man , and Smallville in the early 2000s through the...

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Phillips, Siobhan

Phillips, Siobhan. Benefit. New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2022. https://blpress.org/books/benefit/, Laura, a student from a modest background, escapes her small town to join the ranks of the academic elite on a...

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Ball, David M. and Kuhlman, Martha B.

The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic...

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Petruska, Karen, Holt, Jennifer, and Steirer, Gregory

The impetus for this issue on connected viewing grew out of research being done by humanities scholars for the Connected Viewing Initiative, a partnership between UC Santa Barbara’s Carsey-Wolf Center and Warner Brothers Home...

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Perabo, Susan

The breakout novel from the critically acclaimed author of the short story collections Who I Was Supposed to Be and Why They Run the Way They Do —when a middle school girl is abducted in broad daylight, a fellow student and...

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Ball, David M.

From Herman Melville’s claim that “failure is the true test of greatness” to Henry Adams’s self-identification with the “mortifying failure in [his] long education” and William Faulkner’s eagerness to be judged by his “splendid...

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Moffat, Wendy

Moffat, Wendy. A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010., For more information on the published version, visit Macmillan Publisher's Website., and E. M. Forster's...

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Sider Jost, Jacob

Sider Jost, Jacob. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century: Hervey, Johnson, Smith, Equiano. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2020. , Jacob Sider Jost is a professor of English at Dickinson...

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Seiler, Claire

How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings...

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Phillips, Siobhan K.

For more information on the published version, visit Columbia University Press's Website., Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as...

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